Poem

  • Learning Life by Soul

    Here is another section of Kim Rosen’s book, “Saved by a Poem” that I loved. “Have you ever had the experience of a friendship or a romance where it seemed like life had finally brought you the perfect person, whose… Continue reading

  • The Journey….

    In Kim Rosen’s book, “Saved by a Poem” she writes, “ I discovered how the separating lines of culture and age can dissolve in the presence of a poem the first time I went to Africa. In Kenya, at the… Continue reading

  • Tree In Tree

    By Deena Metzger “I am no longer afraid of mirrors where I see the sign of the amazon, the one who shoots arrows. There was a fine red line across my chest where a knife entered, but now a branch… Continue reading

  • When Death Comes, by Mary Oliver

    When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measles-pox when death comes like an… Continue reading

  • Love after Love, by Derek Walcott

    The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who… Continue reading

  • The Journey, by Mary Oliver

    One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my… Continue reading