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Random reflections, my thoughts, and personal journey
- A Year in Art
- An Awakening
- Baby Boy Blue
- Beginnings
- Better with Age
- Fabulous Female
- Finding the Right Words
- Leap, and the Net Appears
- Learning to Fly Solo
- Making Lemonade
- Mommy, You OK?
- My Loneliness
- My Miracle Heart
- Old? I Think Not
- Singing in the Rain
- Something Blue
- Take Me Home Country Roads
- What Do You Say to a Naked Man?
My poems on life, living, and love . . . and surviving those setbacks we all have
- A Love Poem
- Almost a Whisper
- At First and 1st
- Be My Love
- By Firelight
- Cloud Nine
- Comes the Spring
- Coming Up Empty
- Crazeee Daze
- Curiosity Shop
- Diamond Drops
- Fear Factor
- Heavenly Love
- His Choice
- In Winter When
- lone • li • ness
- Loving Myself
- Mean Brother Rising
- Miracle Man
- My Reiki Trade
- No Options
- Oceanwave
- One Last Night
- Out of Sight
- River Song
- Senses Affected
- Serendipity
- Sonrisas in June
- The Child Within
- The Falling Leaves
- Three Foxes
- Who I Am
- Winter Whispers
Poems and prose by friends and fellow poets
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- Coming Home To Myself
- Night Tears
- Oatmeal
- Perpetual Present
- The Dance
- The Invitation
- The Moment Before
- Twyla
Terry Stephen Driscoll
- A Missing Child
- An Angel’s Heart
- An Evening of Childhood
- Asi se Baila (That’s Dancing)
- Bad Timing
- Black Man Jack
- Fingers of Gold
- Jealousy
- Mountain Friends
- Nebraska (Acrostic)
- No Victory
- Professor Penguin
- Returning
- Shadow Over the Shanty
- The Arches of Waterloo
- The Hand
- This Gathering of Poets
- True Wealth
- Venice
Laryalee Fraser
Dennis Janke
Christine Magee
- A Birthday Gift
- Always
- An Early Winter
- Another Year
- Beautiful Soul
- Blue Rain
- Bonds
- Fusion
- Getting Up
- His Grief
- It Could Have Been Me
- Places In My Heart
- Poppies
- Slow Down the Years
- The First Anniversary
- The Snowball
Dorothy Doyle Mienko
- Estate Sale Blues
- First Communion
- My Left Breast
- The Great Gatsby Breaks My Heart
- Untitled
- While Pondering the Iris of His Eyes
Carrie Ryman
Tom Schmidt
Susan Dane Setin
Personal favorite poems by classic and contemporary poets
- A Shropshire Lad, II - A. E. Housman
- Autumn - Josiah Conder
- Be Mindful of the Moment - Neil Harding McAlister
- Causatum - Sharamain Sadler
- Combing - Gladys Cardiff
- Deliberate - David J. Humphreys
- Drowned in a Raindrop - David J. Humphreys
- Flowers Talk - Joan Adams Burchell
- Friendship - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Heart’s Path - Francine Pucillo
- Help Yourself to Happiness - Helen Steiner Rice
- How We Didn’t Tell Her - Sandra M. Gilbert
- I Stopped Going to Therapy - Clementine von Radics
- May we raise children who love the unloved - Nicolette Sowder
- Medicine Wheel - Paul Allen Bruce
- Men as Trees, Walking - William Greenway
- October Morning Rain - Sally Boland
- Peace of Mind - Micheal Teal
- Poem for My Father - Virgil Suárez
- Say No - Megan Falley & Olivia Gatwood
- Spring Garden - M. M. R.
- Spring-Time - Dolly Radford
- Storm - Clementine von Radics
- Stray Cat - Francis Witham
- The Girl I Used to Be - Rowena K. Lewis
- The Man Who Thinks He Can - Walter D. Wintle
- The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry
- The Poet - Raymond Garfield Dandridge
- The Word - Tony Hoagland
- There Is No Word - Tony Hoagland
- When I Smile Again - Lasca Nuala Reed
- When You Are Old - William Butler Yeats
Poems, sonnets, and prose by famous popular poets
Robert Frost
Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Afternoon on a Hill
- Ashes of Life
- Assault
- Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
- Here is a wound that never will heal, I know
- I know I am but summer to your heart
- If I should learn, in some quite casual way
- Justice Denied in Massachusetts
- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
- Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
- Portrait by a Neighbor
- Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find
- The Penitent
- Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
- When you, that at this moment are to me
Passionate, tender, amorous poetry from days gone by
Featured Poets
- Eliza Acton
- Anne Bradstreet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- Robert Burns
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- William Cowper
- John Donne
- Johann von Goethe
- Robert Herrick
- Thomas Hood
- John Keats
- D. H. Lawrence
- Richard Lovelace
- Amy Lowell
- Christopher Marlowe
- Aleksandr Pushkin
- Sir Walter Ralegh
- Christina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- William Shakespeare
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Edmund Spenser
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- John Wilbye
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- William Wordsworth
Haiku from masters of the art
Thought-provoking and inspirational essays and creative written pieces
- 75 Life Lessons Learned - Patricia Petro
- A Beast and an Anxious Person Walk Into a Bar - Karen Sandstrom
- A Father Remembered - Patty Davis
- A Heart’s Breath - Anne Lamott
- Breaking the Surface - Anne Lamott
- Choosing To Be Happy - Patricia Petro
- Didgeridoo - Anne Lamott
- Exhaust the Little Moment - Anna Quindlen
- Eye of the Reporter, Heart of the Novelist - Anna Quindlen
- Flown Away, Left Behind - Anna Quindlen
- Goodbye, Dr. Spock - Anna Quindlen
- How to Make a Woman Fall in Love - Carrie Ryman
- Is That All There Is? - Anne Lamott
- Let Us Commence - Anne Lamott
- Letting It Rise - Anne Lamott
- Living with a Positive Attitude - Patricia Petro
- Mala from Heaven - Anne Lamott
- Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech - Anna Quindlen
- My Grandmother - Melissa Kristen
- My Path to a Simple Life - Patricia Petro
- On Aging - Anne Lamott
- Open Mind, Open Heart - Patricia Petro
- Outside the Bright Lines - Anna Quindlen
- Pretty - Carrie Ryman
- Sarah Lawrence Commencement Speech - Anna Quindlen
- Savoring Everyday Moments - Patricia Petro
- Sincere Meditations - Anne Lamott
- Slow Down to Savor Life - Patricia Petro
- Ten Tips for a Happier Life - Carrie Ryman
- The Fabric of My Life - Peggy Bird
- The Simplicity of Tea - Thich Nhat Hanh
- Villanova Commencement Speech - Anna Quindlen
- What to Do When Your Relationship is Not Working Out - Carrie Ryman
- Why I Did It - Matuschka
- You Don’t Have That Kind of Time - Anne Lamott
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