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Morning Thoughts

By Betty Jamerson Reed on September 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “A songbird awakens /the morning just outside…” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of Quaker information: every Friends […]

Betty Jamerson Reed lives in Brevard, N.C.


Posted in: Poetry, September 2017
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Trust

By Dudley Warman on September 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “He has been instructed to take shelter under his mother’s cloak…”

Dudley Warman lives in Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.


Posted in: Poetry, September 2017
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Seeing Truth

By Heather Heath Reed on September 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “It’s true, things stick…” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of Quaker information: every Friends Journal ever published, […]

Heather Heath Reed lives in Westport, Mass.


Posted in: Poetry, September 2017
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Measuring Joy

By Michael S. Glaser on August 1, 2017

Poetry: “My grandmother put a little sugar in everything she cooked.”

Michael S. Glaser lives in St. Mary’s City, Md.


Posted in: Poetry, The Art of Dying
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Friends Bearing Food

By David Black on August 1, 2017

Poetry: “Word goes out, and they start to come” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of Quaker information: every Friends […]

David Black lives in Louisa, Va.


Posted in: Poetry, The Art of Dying
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After Mowing Hay

By Melva Priddy on June 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “After a June day’s work, having driven…”

Melva Priddy lives in Winchester, Ky.


Posted in: Poetry, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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A Grace of Thanksgiving

By Michael S. Glaser on June 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “We are cooking / and talking about how some foods” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library […]

Michael S. Glaser lives in St. Mary’s City, Md.


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On a Friend’s 70th Birthday

By Bob Welsh on May 22, 2017

FJ Poetry: His feet walk daily paths, as duties call…

Bob Welsh lives in Black Mountain, N.C.

The obituary of the subject of Welsh’s poem, Bob Barrus, also appears in the May 2017 issue.


Posted in: Poetry, Quaker Summers
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Death of a Patient

By Geoff Knowlton on April 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “I heard the news on a snowy day…”

Geoff Knowlton lives in Princeton, Mass.


Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Poetry
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Making my Bed

By Bob Elmendorf on April 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “I unfolded the map of the pillowcase…” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of Quaker information: every Friends […]

Bob Elmendorf lives in Malden Bridge, N.Y.


Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Poetry
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