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The Rich Young Ruler
FJ Poetry: "After his meeting with that rabbi, he / Walked home more slowly than usually."
Anne Babson
Poetry
Singular Universal
FJ Poetry: "To write a poem / or to read one / it takes a certain kind / of heart."
Lynette Friesen
Poetry
Feeling Our Way to You
FJ Poetry: "As if blind, we feel / every hour / our way to You."
Robert Dixon-Kolar
Poetry
This Little Light of Mine
FJ Poetry: "When I was five I ran smack into a gravestone..."
Kathryn Ailes
Poetry
Talk with Me
FJ Poetry: "This dawn wind I have given you..."
Manuela Popovici
Poetry
Silent Worship
FJ Poetry: "Mind staccato: warblers flit from bite to bite..."
Errol Hess
Poetry
Target Practice at the Beach
Friends Journal poetry: "Sometimes there’s no symbol, only comic relief..."
Alexander Levering Kern
Poetry
In a Yellow Light
Friends Journal poetry: "Diaper-clad, / I was dash and go..."
Sunshine F. Branner
Poetry
A Child Not Born
Friends Journal poetry: "Blip on a radar screen / like a storm building furious..."
Donovan McAbee
Poetry
I Tell You No Jihad Can Change the Course of Rivers
Friends Journal poetry: Outside, a soldier rubs the muzzle / of his gun with sandpaper...
Linda Ashok
Poetry
I Tell Him about the Body Bags
Friends Journal poetry: He loads the dishwasher, his Mom’s birthday / dinner done...
Meredith Trede
Poetry
His Last Years
Friends Journal poetry: He bought a / Cadillac, an RV, / shiny brass figurines with / granddad’s estate...
Danny P. Barbare
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