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The awkward stage: love’s secret agent
Thank goodness for poet Lawrence Raab. In “My Life Before I Knew It” he says everything I wanted to tell my kids about heading off regret and seeing grace at work in your life.
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Grieving and un-leaving or picking and gifting?
Fall by Laure-Anne Bosselaar So it’s today, and in the chokecherry this year: the first leaves turn ochre, there, by the open gate. I grab the sweater you left on a chair, wrap it around my shoulders, and—as I did for days last year until I couldn’t keep up with the […]
MoreFun romantic times brought to you by Anne Marie
All the way from Prague, my youngest daughter Anne Marie spreads the Poem Elf spirit. As you can see, she loves her adopted city; as you can’t see and wouldn’t know, she also loves the word “romantic.” (See her commentary.) We have a running family joke about an awkward card she gave me as years […]
MoreLockdown
From “A Married State” by Katherine Philips A married state affords but little ease The best of husbands are so hard to please. This in wives’ careful faces you may spell Though they dissemble their misfortunes well. Someone wrote on Twitter the other day that being in lockdown reminded her of being […]
More9th Annual Valentine’s Day Poem Blitz
In Hawaii for another Valentine’s Day—always a good spot for celebrating love, inspiring love and meditating on love. When I’m here my heart nearly bursts open with love for all creation. Yeah, yeah, pretty easy when I’m this far away from routine, news, and winter weather. Regardless, sending love to you, dear readers, and […]
MoreMaking Out, Advanced Class
Feasting by Elizabeth W. Garber I am so amazed to find myself kissing you with such abandon, filling myself with our kisses astounding hunger for edges of lips and tongue. Returning to feast again and again, our bellies never overfilling from this banquet. Returning in surprise, in remembering, in rediscovering, such play of […]
MoreEverything old is new
Young love is sweet to behold, sweeter and sweeter as I grow older. It’s also something of a wonder for a long-married person like me to think back to the beginning—to try to remember—that time—in September—when love was an ember—about to billow— [Earworm alert. . . The Fantasticks is always waiting to be sung.] […]
More8th Annual Valentine’s Day Poem Blitz
Valentine’s Day spending is up 6% this year over last even though fewer people are celebrating. Sad! Poems, of course, are the perfect antidote to the menace of all-consuming consumerism slouching towards Bethlehem. Poems cost nothing to give and last forever. Here’s a few to share with your lover, your mother, your friend or […]
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