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Poetry

Poetry

The Divine Comes Disguised as Our Life.

"So often the path leads nowhere, backs up into brush, disappears, ends in a parking lot, butts into wire...." Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry

Note to Myself

"Do not expect the Silence to always be silent. / Life is taking place outside this Meeting House..." Loré McLaren
Poetry

when it comes

"it comes a gentle / but insistent pressure..." Morrow Dowdle
Poetry

Half an Ear

There are those who listen with half an ear... David Black
Poetry

Annunciation

The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.—Luke 1:35 Nancy Thomas
Poetry

Final Query with Answer

"I wonder / When our search for answers is done..." Michael Graves
Poetry

Alone

"After God left me, / I got along all right for a while..." Elizabeth Boardman
Poetry

Savior

"In the stooped squat of age, I grab a plastic cup and lid..." Marjorie Gowdy
Poetry

Female Brain Running

"Recently I fell for clickbait because the tagline sounded so binary and sexist / that I wanted to see just… Lindsay-Rose Dykema
Poetry

Acer Macrophyllum

FJ Poetry: “The moment of detachment, petiole from stem, goes unnoticed...” Linda Phillips
Poetry

The Cyclist

FJ Poetry: “For twenty years I’d see her on her bike...” Karen Kilcup
Poetry

In the City of the Dead

FJ Poetry: “On the way to the airport, I left the pair of Keens you bought me...” Holly Iglesias
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