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Poetry

“…and who is my neighbor?”

“God is growing.” –Rainer Maria Rilke

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10 Things I Learned in the ‘10s

2020

A Beautiful Thing

A Few Lines for Sue

Thomas DeFreitas

a fragile soul in search of a friend

A Lamentation for the Test Taker

A moonlit night

Maisha Tahsin Rubai

A Passion

A Shout from the Dark

A Thousand Tiny Murders

A Tree Grows on the Stone Wall

Acceptance

Accident of Birth

After last danger of frost is past

Linda Buckmaster

after listening to a past life regression hypnosis I found on Youtube (for the fourth time)

Nicolette Daskalakis

After the Fire Rolls Through

Afterlives

Again and Again

All We Want is Love

Alpha Centauri

Alonso Nina Rubinstein

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 Abbey

Ariana Alvarado

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

Blessing

Sarah DeCorla-Souza

BLM

Body Language

Border

Both & Neither

Jaimeson Oakley

Breaking Open the Word

Rosie Prohías Driscoll

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

Chuang Tzu

City Solitude

Cliff Copse

Coal Mine Canyon

Coincidings: A Ghazal

Come Bask in the Divine Light

Come to the Table

Come True

Communion

Nadine Ellsworth-Moran

CONCERT

D. Dina Friedman

Conciencia Plena

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Conditions

Conference

Cosmic Lesson

Covers

Beth Oast Williams

Cruel Destiny

Maisha Tahsin Rubai

Dawn Prayer

Dead Letter Drop

Pamela Cranston

Destiny

Devoted

Ginnie Goulet Garvin

Do Not Judge Me For Staying

Vicki Mandell-King

Dollhouse Boyfriend

Nina Rubinstein Alonso

Dust to Dust

Karen Luke Jackson

Dwelling

East River, After a Long Absence

Edges

Martin Willitts Jr.

Emblems of the Times

Emptiness

Jeffrey Essmann

Enough is Enough

Matthew J. Andrews

Epiphany and the Heart

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 better, for worse

Banqobile Virginia Dakamela

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

heartbreak

Heavenly Garden

Emily Updegraff

Heavenly Rain

Shelby Stephenson

Higher than the Hills

Holy War

Beatrice Kujichagulia Greene

Home/world

Homecoming

Hye Won Hye

Ashante J. Ford

i always…

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 Wish I’d Held My Father’s Hand

I’m a Waif in my Homeland

Adewuyi Ayodeji

I’m ebony black

Banqobile Virginia Dakamela

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 BEGINNING

Krikor Der Hohannesiann

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

La Clave

Rosie Prohías Driscoll

Legacy

Merryn Rutledge

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

Let Healing Come

life, unfolding

Kathryn Sadakierski

like the voice of sylvia plath

Linden

Lisbon Lies in Ruins

Åsa Ericsdotter

Listening

Logistics

Jeffrey Johnson

Long Road Home

Shelby Stephenson

Loving-Kindness Prayer after Buddhist mettā phrases

Mar Saba

Julio Martínez Mesanza

Mark 10:14

Maror

Deborah Doolittle

Meditation

Lorraine Caputo

Memorial Cross

E. Laura Golberg

Memories

Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees

Mind Mudra: A Sangha Poem

Misogynoir

MOON SHADOWS

Moral aphorisms:

Morir Soñando

Morning Poem

Sally Wilder David

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

New

Newborn

Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees

NIAMANI: she whose purpose is peace

Nicaraguan Suspice, July 2018

nopales

Maya Litauer Chan

Not enough home, not enough land

NUNC DIMITTIS

Cristina Legarda

Nurturing