Tag Archives: poem

Next to Promised

Posted on October 17, 2015 by J

13 October 2015 13 Our Next-to-Promised Land Little fingers gripped my hand so tightly all last night, they left a set of tiny, bleeding-under-skin remarks. We’re born bereft of why we ever want to wake up here and see this … Continue reading →

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Rising, Just Steadily Rising

Posted on September 20, 2015 by J

This has been a blessed day in a blessed market town.  New, this is, as new as can be: 20 September 2015 20 Rising, Just Steadily Rising The mother of all of us—rivers and branches, and dry twigs and leaves … Continue reading →

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Hard to Sleep; Hard Not to Dream

Posted on August 22, 2015 by J

Still just hours away from flash-point: 21 August 2015 22 You Can Work Your Will Long all-over lily layers line the pond’s deep wet green face. When their blossoms open, watching from the shore, have we seen grace together, or … Continue reading →

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Journey Work

Posted on July 13, 2015 by J

13 July 2015 13 A Life’s Long Journey-Work I’ve got to go outside right soon; for near another Moon’s eclipse, a Sun keeps homing in; keeps gliding far too near; a sentence trips from off a tongue that’s not my … Continue reading →

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YES to Marriage Equality: This Sea Loves You

Posted on July 1, 2015 by J

This is just a bit of spontaneous celebration for the many, many lovely and loving people in my town who are now free to marry their lovers forever. Why did they not have this always? We know the answer; it … Continue reading →

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Pain to Be Shared. Be Well, All of You.

Posted on June 29, 2015 by J

29 June 2015 29 Pain Has Just This Place Pain has no living place where kindness may, in good faith, conceive and breed. This is sad pain’s resting place, a series of doors down a hallway that’s heartless at need, … Continue reading →

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Please Don’t Try to Know Too Much

Posted on November 15, 2014 by J

New tonight, after many old loving thoughts and memories: 15 November 2014 15 Please Don’t Try to Know What Love Means Here All night, I walked out too far and too long, and somewhere along the cold way, I went … Continue reading →

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Tell It All

Posted on October 28, 2014 by J

Things are going to get weirder before they get normal again. 28 October 2014 24 Tell It. Tell It All Far and alone and so lonely I wandered, and when my soul left as I lay half-adream, I knew I … Continue reading →

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For You

Posted on October 28, 2014 by J

27 October In Memoriam for Jay, most luminous of corvids If you will, please go back to the very first post of this blog, and note the date on the poem there. Here’s a link: 3 June 2014 RAIN HARP … Continue reading →

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In the Sweet, Salt Bye-and-Bye

Posted on October 18, 2014 by J

I just put up a post that was entirely prose. Forgive me! That is so unlike me, and I cannot let it stand. This happened last night: 17 October 2014 14 In the Salt Bye and Bye Twine and untwine … Continue reading →

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