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 | Sep 2, 2024 | Poems, Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Ah to be aliveon a mid-September mornfording a streambarefoot, pants rolled up,holding boots, pack on,sunshine, ice in the shallows,northern rockies.Rustle and shimmer of icy creek watersstones turn underfoot, small and hard as toescold nose drippingsinging...
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 3, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridgeAnd walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,Above landscapes the color of ripe goldTransformed by a magic stopping of the sun.That bridge leads to the shore of...
