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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 contemporary poets
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- Coming Home To Myself
- Night Tears
- Oatmeal
- Perpetual Present
- The Dance
- The Invitation
- The Moment Before
- Twyla
Terry Stephen Driscoll
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
- Poppies
- Slow Down the Years
- The First Anniversary
- The Snowball
Carrie Ryman
Tom Schmidt
Susan Dane Setin
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
Personal favorite poems by classic and contemporary poets
- Be Mindful of the Moment - Neil Harding McAlister
- Causatum - Sharamain Sadler
- Flowers Talk - Joan Adams Burchell
- Help Yourself to Happiness - Helen Steiner Rice
- How We Didn’t Tell Her - Sandra M. Gilbert
- Medicine Wheel - Paul Allen Bruce
- October Morning Rain - Sally Boland
- Poem for My Father - Virgil Suárez
- The Poet - Raymond Garfield Dandridge
- Thinking - Walter D. Wintle
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
Poems and words of wisdom from the greatest Zen masters
Thought-provoking and inspirational essays and creative written pieces
- You Don’t Have That Kind of Time - Anne Lamott
- Open Mind, Open Heart - Patricia Petro
- On Aging - Anne Lamott
- Why I Did It - Matuschka
- The Simplicity of Tea - Thich Nhat Hanh
- Choosing To Be Happy - Patricia Petro
- Slow Down to Savor Life - Patricia Petro
- Living with a Positive Attitude - Patricia Petro
- Making Lemonade - Patricia Petro
- How to Make a Woman Fall in Love - Carrie Ryman
- An Awakening - Patricia Petro
- Ten Tips for a Happier Life - Carrie Ryman
- Pretty - Carrie Ryman
- What to Do When Your Relationship is Not Working Out - Carrie Ryman
Endless inspiration to help clarify, comfort, encourage, and uplift the spirit
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- The Soul of the Indian
Petals of Sunshine
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