Category Archives: Poems

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, [...]

Poetry by Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age … Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t [...]

Extract from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

And now you ask in your heart, “How shall we distinguish that which is good [...]

The Moment

To Dan, with a heart full of gratitude  We never really know what waits like [...]

I AM THE POEM

I am both pain and passion I am the sea leaving the shore and then [...]

How to Write a Poem in a Time of War

My Poem of the Week this week, is a poem by our Poet Laureate, Joy [...]

Fredericksburg

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed, And on the churchyard [...]

BEYOND TOMORROW

The sun rises beyond the corn field and spreads slowly over the trees to touch [...]