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Inspiration for the Spirit

A lovely place to wander for poetry and inspiration to soothe the soul

Selected Poems

rose in the rain

“For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain.” —John Cheever

32 poems

A Shropshire Lad, II by A. E. Housman
Autumn by Josiah Conder
man in park Be Mindful of the Moment by Neil Harding McAlister
unhappy girl Causatum by Sharamain Sadler
Combing by Gladys Cardiff
Deliberate by David J. Humphreys
Drowned in a Raindrop by David J. Humphreys
Flowers Talk by Joan Adams Burchell
Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart’s Path by Francine Pucillo
be happy Help Yourself to Happiness by Helen Steiner Rice
fractured woman How We Didn’t Tell Her by Sandra M. Gilbert
I Stopped Going to Therapy by Clementine von Radics
May we raise children who love the unloved by Nicolette Sowder
Medicine Wheel by Paul Allen Bruce
Men as Trees, Walking by William Greenway
walking in the rain October Morning Rain by Sally Boland
Peace of Mind by Micheal Teal
Poem for My Father by Virgil Suárez
Say No by Megan Falley & Olivia Gatwood
Spring Garden by M. M. R.
Spring-Time by Dolly Radford
Storm by Clementine von Radics
Stray Cat by Francis Witham
The Girl I Used to Be by Rowena K. Lewis
The Man Who Thinks He Can by Walter D. Wintle
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
glasses The Poet by Raymond Garfield Dandridge
The Word by Tony Hoagland
There Is No Word by Tony Hoagland
When I Smile Again by Lasca Nuala Reed
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
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There Is No Word

by Tony Hoagland

There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that should have been bagged in double layers —so that before you are even out the door you feel ... Read more

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.” ―Kahlil Gibran

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