by admin | Sep 3, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
How necessary it is to have opinions! I think the spotted troutlilies are satisfied, standing a few inches above the earth. Ithink serenity is not something you just find in the world,like a plum tree, holding up its white petals.The violets, along the river, are...
by admin | Aug 31, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
I live without living in me,and I expect a life so high,that I die because I do not die.I live already beside myselfsince I am dying of love;because I live in Him,who wanted me for Himself:when I gave my heart to HimHe placed this sign in it,that I die because I do...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
We are children of our era;our era is political.All affairs, day and night,yours, ours, theirs,are political affairs.Like it or not,your genes have a political past,your skin a political cast,your eyes a political aspect.What you say has a resonance;what you are...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Nature and God — I neither knewYet Both so well knew meThey startled, like ExecutorsOf My identity.Yet Neither told — that I could learn –My Secret as secureAs Herschel’s private interestOr Mercury’s affair —
by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
A Rock, A River, A TreeHosts to species long since departed,Mark the mastodon.The dinosaur, who left dry tokensOf their sojourn hereOn our planet floor,Any broad alarm of their hastening doomIs lost in the gloom of dust and ages.But today, the Rock cries out to us,...
by admin | Aug 4, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Women
A dove gazed inthrough a latticed window:there balm rained down on her face,raining from lucentMaximin.The heat of the sun blazed outto irradiate the dark:a bud burst open, jewel-like,in the temple of the heart(limpid and kind his heart).A tower of cypress is he,and...
