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Poetry

“…and who is my neighbor?”

“God is growing.” –Rainer Maria Rilke

[ A Home of Our Own ]

10 Things I Learned in the ‘10s

2020

A Beautiful Thing

A Few Lines for Sue

Thomas DeFreitas

A Passion

A Shout from the Dark

A Thousand Tiny Murders

A Tree Grows on the Stone Wall

Acceptance

Accident of Birth

After the Fire Rolls Through

Afterlives

Again and Again

All We Want is Love

Altar

Deborah Leipziger

Amnesty — Application

Noluthando Naledii Mashiane

Among the Things I Do Not Understand

An angel being dragged through Hell alive

Alexandra Guzman

Analects on Love

Angel with One Scorched Wing

J.M.R. Harrison

ANGELS

Valerie Wohlfeld

Another

Another Feast Day of Kuan Yin

Apatura iris

Aphasia

Aphorisms on the Origins of Love

April

Marjorie Maddox

Archangels of Childhood

Dimitry Blizniuk

Asterism

At Duck I Am As Tired As The World

At the End of the Day

Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum

Autumn This Year

Jacqueline Coleman-Fried

Bellini: Madonna

Julio Martínez Mesanza

Between Words and Worlds

Leslie Smith Townsend

Black Bean Sutra

Laurence Musgrove

Blackness: Night before Ash Wednesday, 2020

BLM

Both & Neither

Jaimeson Oakley

Breathing in the Dark

Brighting

Camping in the Redwoods

Canary, Plum

Jennifer Markell

Capital Punishment

Celtic Cross

Cemetery Songs

Center Point

Cereal

Boo Mangiacotti

Certainty

Edward Supranowicz

Chances

Jeanie Greensfelder

Chicago

Mikayla Beaudrie

Choosing My Afterlife

City Solitude

Coal Mine Canyon

Coincidings: A Ghazal

Come Bask in the Divine Light

Come to the Table

Communion

Nadine Ellsworth-Moran

CONCERT

D. Dina Friedman

Conciencia Plena

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Conditions

Conference

Cosmic Lesson

Covers

Beth Oast Williams

Dawn Prayer

Dead Letter Drop

Pamela Cranston

Destiny

Do Not Judge Me For Staying

Vicki Mandell-King

Dollhouse Boyfriend

Nina Rubinstein Alonso

Dust to Dust

Karen Luke Jackson

East River, After a Long Absence

Edges

Martin Willitts Jr.

Emblems of the Times

Emptiness

Jeffrey Essmann

Enough is Enough

Matthew J. Andrews

Erica, O Erica

Akua Lezli Hope

Eternal

Evening Poem

Event Horizon

Renuka Raghavan

Extra

Marjorie Maddox

Fables for Aesop

Richard Brenneman

Faith

Yehoshua November

Feast of Our Lady of the Assumption, Green Harbor Beach

February Prayer

Finding Mom

Lisa Hase-Jackson

Finding Ourselves Rooted

Fireflies

First Breaths

Shelby Stephenson

Fishing with My Father

Donna Baier Stein

For a Young Friend Giving Birth

Carol Alexander

For Graduating Student Activists

FRANKENSTEINA

Frontiers & Truth

Full Moon At Easter

Charlene Langfur

George’s Blackberry Eyes

Ghar El Melh

Julio Martínez Mesanza

Gino

God is an Atheist

Elizabeth Sharber

Graceful

Gratitude Works: A Post Pandemic Poem

Matilda Rose Cantwell

Green Thumb

Haiku

Heart of wood

Heavenly Garden

Emily Updegraff

Heavenly Rain

Shelby Stephenson

Higher than the Hills

Holy War

Beatrice Kujichagulia Greene

Home/world

Hye Won Hye

Ashante J. Ford

I am from

I am looking for a God

Angelita Hampton

I Gave A Gift

I Hear You

I Used to Live for Words

I’m a Waif in my Homeland

Adewuyi Ayodeji

If I Were a Blade of Grass

Leslie Smith Townsend

Imperfect Contrition

In Andalucía, an Apologia

In My Dreams I Call

Tatiana Retivov

In the Present State of Witness

William Doreski

Infertility As

Inhalation

Eliana Franklin

Inner Journey

Insomnia and a Maidenhair Fern

Invitation to Prayer

Isn’t It Wonderful

Journey to the Heart of Gaia

Nitza Hernández-López

Juice Ex Machina

July Night, More Rain

Jennifer Phillips

Just Like That

Just Past Montes de Oca, Northern Spain

Kohala

Andrew Shattuck McBride

Legacy

Merryn Rutledge

Lesson One in Chinese Character/s: a Bilinguacultural Poem about Heart

Let Healing Come

life, unfolding

Kathryn Sadakierski

Linden

Listening

Long Road Home

Shelby Stephenson

Loving-Kindness Prayer after Buddhist mettā phrases

Mar Saba

Julio Martínez Mesanza

Mark 10:14

Memorial Cross

E. Laura Golberg

Memories

Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees

Mind Mudra: A Sangha Poem

Misogynoir

MOON SHADOWS

Moral aphorisms:

Morir Soñando

Morning Prayer in Spokane

Motet

Richard Hoffman

Mother Earth

Mother Father

Muse

Suisen Hoshijima

my dear depression

Wayne-Daniel Berard

my lucid american dream

My Soul Shudders In and Out of my Body like a Microscope In and Out of Focus

Mystic Failure

Newborn

Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees

Nicaraguan Suspice, July 2018

nopales

Maya Litauer Chan

NUNC DIMITTIS

Cristina Legarda

Nurturing

Oceanfull

Krissy Kilgallen

Ode to Butterflies

On Instagram

On Rumination

One Phone Call

Ostranenie

Laura Grace Weldon

Over the Ocean

Pandora’s Boxes

Marjorie Maddox

Parable of the Sower

Alfonso Sasieta

Pareidolia or not?

Passengers

Martin Willitts Jr.

Plums in the Winter

Ashante J. Ford

Portrait of a Woman in 1969

Prayer After Receiving Communion

Prayer Against the Binary

Prayer for Deliverance

Precious Divinity

Pruning

Pure and Simple

questions for henrietta

Rain

Rebbe in Silence

Robert Manaster

REBUTTAL

Red-Winged Blackbird

Redwood Dharma

Laura Grace Weldon

Riot

Alexandra Cristache

River is Full of Himself Today

Allison Douglas-Tourner

Rules of Radiance

Saving Ourselves

Say prayer’s correctly rubbing God’s back

seeds of beauty

Self-care

Alexandra Guzman

Semantics

Serenity Prayer 2.0

Bruce E. Whitacre

Shadow-dancing