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Poetry

Poetry

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
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In a Yellow Light

Friends Journal poetry: "Diaper-clad, / I was dash and go..." Sunshine F. Branner
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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
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I Tell Him about the Body Bags

Friends Journal poetry: He loads the dishwasher, his Mom’s birthday / dinner done... Meredith Trede
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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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