Category Archives: Poems
Thanksgiving
Ella Wheeler Wilcox – 1850-1919 We walk on starry fields of white And do not [...]
Inside me, a family
Ching-In Chen “To walk in the world is to find oneself in a body without [...]
DEFIANCE
Time bends us till we break defying us to defy gravity a savage kind of [...]
Not Writing
A wasp rises to its papery nest under the eaves where it daubs at the [...]
Augusta Webster, “Circe”.
The sun drops luridly into the west; darkness has raised her arms to draw him [...]
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming [...]
Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats [...]
THE Mouse
The mouse has eluded the trap beneath the kitchen sink for three nights in a [...]
Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats [...]
The Ache to Dream
we dream in winter summer skies amber and imperious a rioting of violets between [...]