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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

  • 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

Dennis Janke

  • Cats
  • Dreamtime
  • Love Is
  • Mountains
  • The Darkening
  • The Seed
  • Two Steps
  • Udine Beach

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

  • A Familiar Taste
  • Baseball Love
  • Goodnight Kiss
  • Home Still Exists
  • Poetry in Motion
  • Table Inhabitants
  • Twilight of Summer

Tom Schmidt

  • At the Pier
  • Carousel Dreams
  • Moonlight Encounters

Susan Dane Setin

  • A Woman Who Can Tell
  • Close
  • Day And Night
  • Going
  • La Haine
  • Labor Night
  • Native Ground
  • New Sea
  • One Hand
  • Parallel
  • Peru
  • Poem Push
  • Shell Free
  • Snow
  • Song Unsung
  • Taffeta Torn Through
  • The Couple
  • The First Stigmata
  • The Secret Garden
  • The Tea Party
  • The Vision

Poems, sonnets, and prose by famous popular poets

Robert Frost

  • Acquainted with the Night
  • An Old Man’s Winter Night
  • Bond and Free
  • Fire and Ice
  • Ghost House
  • Going for Water
  • Meeting and Passing
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay
  • October
  • Reluctance
  • The Hill Wife—V. The Impulse
  • The Road Not Taken
  • The Silken Tent
  • To Earthward

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

Sara Teasdale

  • A Winter Night
  • After Love
  • Alchemy
  • Barter
  • Because
  • Grandfather’s Love
  • In a Garden
  • Lovely Chance
  • May Day
  • Old Tunes
  • Snowfall
  • Spring Rain
  • The Return
  • Those Who Love
  • To E
  • Two Songs for Solitude
  • Union Square
  • When Love Goes
  • Winter Stars
  • Young Love

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

Love

Native Voices

  • Native American Symbolic Circles
  • Native American Wisdom
  • The Legend of White Buffalo Calf Woman
  • The Soul of the Indian

Petals of Sunshine

  • Flower Fairy Alphabet
  • Flowers and Gardens
  • Flowers: Legends and Lore
  • My Heaven on Earth
  • The Language of Flowers
  • The Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

More Inspiration

  • Tentra Nepalese Totum

Inspirational words of wisdom for a more positive life

  • Advice and Encouragement
  • Aging
  • Autumn
  • Change
  • Courage and Strength
  • Desires
  • Dreams
  • Family
  • Forgive and Forget
  • Friendship
  • Gratitude
  • Grief and Pain
  • Happiness
  • Hope and Optimism
  • Humor
  • Inner Peace
  • Kindness and Compassion
  • Learning and Growth
  • Letting Go
  • Life and Living
  • Loneliness
  • Love and Relationships
  • Loving Yourself
  • Making Mistakes
  • Miracles
  • Music
  • Patience and Perseverance
  • Poetry and Poems
  • Regret
  • Silence
  • Success and Failure
  • Talent and Creativity
  • Truth
  • Water
  • World Peace

More Quotes on Other Pages

  • Native American Wisdom
  • Flowers and Gardens

My thoughts and personal journey

  • A Year in Art
  • About My Poems
  • Baby Boy Blue
  • Beginnings
  • Mommy, You OK?
  • My Miracle Heart
  • Singing in the Rain
  • Something Blue
  • The Evening Sky
  • What Do You Say to a Naked Man?

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