Skip to content
  • Become a Member
  • Advertise
  • Classifieds
  • Donate
Friends Journal
friends journal mobile logo
  • Find Quakers
  • Write for Us
  • Archives
  • Book Reviews
  • QuakerSpeak
  • 🎧Podcast
  • Quaker.org
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Renew
  • Submissions: Write for Friends Journal
  • Classified
    • Create Classified
  • Archive
    • Meetings
    • Milestones & Obituaries
  • QuakerSpeak
  • Book Reviews
  • About
  • Search
  • 🎧Podcast

Poetry

Poetry

If You Can’t Love an Ordinary Bird

"If you can’t love an ordinary bird, / a cardinal, for example, on a branch..." Neil Kennedy
Poetry

Upon Reflection

"Locked out after Letterman, / hesitant to knock, / I tried to find my keys..." Amy Baskin
Poetry

The Second Million Miles

"Sometimes you need / to learn to travel in the quiet." Bill Jolliff
Poetry

Old Bunhill Fields Burial Ground

"What's left of George Fox / is somewhere nearby..." Bartholomew Barker
Poetry

Quaker Meeting

Our family flew across the countryto visit Quaker grandparents,have them meet and actually seehow our young children had grown:She was… Ruth Naylor
Poetry

In a Maine Quaker Meetinghouse

God is One breath of silenceBefore a loon’s cry— We wait. Dorothy Anna Moore
Poetry

Elemental

Messages can arrive as breath—mostly unnoticed,or as a breeze to cool the sweat of effort.These I accept with gratitude,But not… Veronica Burrows
Poetry

Way Will Open

Way will open.As we learn to live with this pandemic.Our hearts broken.Our vulnerability exposed. Grief,   Anger,     Sadness, Me, myself and IWho am I?Within… Susan Greenler Stoughton, Wis.
Poetry

The Garden of COVID

In your garden, getting lostin lilac coneflowers, minglingwith the bees and hummers,your grin another bloom. I move out of the… Caroline Johnson
Poetry

Distance from the Storm

Clean mask in hand, I stand and look across the yard.Warren works the garden, scratching down a dusty row.From a… David Milley
Poetry

Three Poems

Test Results You’re negative.Are you sure?I’m positive. normalcy in chaos hearing her harping on all that’s changedsince this virus struckmakes me… Carl "Papa" Palmer
Poetry

Repair

When a treasured tea bowl shattered,the kintsugi master glued the fragmentswith a paste of lacquer mixed with powdered gold.The lacquer… Richard Schiffman
Load More

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Get free news and updates from Friends Journal and our QuakerSpeak video series.

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Share

  • Contact the Editors

Write

  • Contact the Editors
  • Submissions: Write for Friends Journal
  • Write a letter to the Forum
  • Get permission to reprint

Explore

  • Obituaries/Milestones
  • Find a Quaker meeting
  • Read Quaker Classifieds
  • Find Basic Information about Quakers

Members

  • Digital Edition Archives (PDFs)
  • Change your address

Support

  • Pay a bill or invoice
  • Donate
  • Contact Us

Friends Journal

  • Contact info
Donation

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Donation
  • © 2023 Friends Publishing Corporation. Site by Trew Knowledge
  • Privacy Policy

Enter a keyword to search.

Log In

Forgot Password?

Don't have an account? Join