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Poetry

Poetry

A Litany for Ancestor Wisdom

In a world divorced / from knowledge that cannot be / parsed or proved Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry

Vermont Solstice

Light brighter than the sun / pierced the midsummer night. / Thunder on the mountain. James Hannon
Poetry

This in Remembrance

Something was always on the stove. We talked / until a lid began to dance, and again / when she… Donald Mace Williams
Poetry

From the checkout line in the supermarket

I notice the sun duck behind clouds and blue / sky turns gray. I feel the last of winter  Molly O’Dell
Poetry

Pilgrimage

drawn by liquid chemistry / redolence of home / I made my way to you Tricia Gates Brown
Poetry

Stone Egg in Aerie

At the edge of twisted pine and spruce woods, / we found a trail sign, / “Hunter’s Cove .5 mi.”  J. de Richemond
Poetry

Good Morning

You disappeared before daffodils or even the end of spring training, / Sunday night we spoke. In a few days… John C. Morgan
Poetry

It Must Have Been

Pilgrimage It must have been those long walks down country lanes, / daisies and black-eyed Susans separating dirt path from… Charles Thomas
Poetry

Prayer

"Instead of hush / I wander looking / for the door." Karen Greenler
Poetry

A Kinder Solitude

"After a year of living alone / I have come to know me." Fred Gerhard
Poetry

March invited me outside today / To join her festival / Of dancing tree tops

March stays for thirty-one days / and yet I barely know her, / a bridge between February and April /… Edith Silvestri
Poetry

Are We Old Yet?

"he asked me / and I couldn't answer him..." Nancy Thomas
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