Category Archives: Poems

Letter to Noah’s Wife

Maya C. Popa You are never mentioned on Ararat or elsewhere, but I know a [...]

WHY NO ONE READS POETRY

…words weep onto the page like tears too long restrained they stain the reader with [...]

HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS

Emily Dickinson (written in 1815) ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers – That perches in [...]

Ars Poetica

by Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb [...]

I REMEMBER…

…hugs and smiles and country miles that stretched to sunsets glowing golden over fields and [...]

ART in ~ to ART

to my Natalia   She moves like water sliding through stones that line the river [...]

FULL THANKS

To and for all those I love  –  you know who you are   I [...]

I write poetry because…

  I breathe     I think     I feel I know     I go through days with only [...]

THE CHANCE

Life persisted longer than it ought for such is the way of things with feathers [...]

“Water”

by Ralph Waldo Emerson The water understands Civilization well; It wets my foot, but prettily, [...]