Category Archives: Poetry

last posted on February 29, 2016 Monday,  February 19, 2018 “It can be your brain, your fingers, your toes, You can listen anywhere” Poems appear sometimes like this — a friend sends me a poem;  it sits on the edge of … Continue reading →

Wednesday, February 14 Once again, a friend sent me a poem.  The poet, Linda Paston, writes of delicate surprises that run deeper than first notice suggests.    Her sensual remembering of an eight year old daughter  when she dares to … Continue reading →

Monday, February 12  –  Connie de Biase died February 10, 2017 “your laugh once lifted me, your word was gift to me.”    Yahuda Halevi One of many people who miss Connie de Biase (died February 10, 2017) wrote me … Continue reading →

February 8, 2018 –   “nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.“ e e cummings would have objected to my world view on just about every count, as I would his.  Which demonstrates to me that great poetry connects … Continue reading →

Wednesday, February 7  – Dunya Mikhail “Yesterday, I lost a country” Warsan Shire “dear god i come from two countries one is thirsty the other is on fire both need water.” Harsh news these past days brought to mind how … Continue reading →

Feb 2 — “A Little Girl Tugs At The Tablecloth” Back from Santa Clara  (Advisory Board meeting)   here’s a long standing favorite poem for this Friday morning. have a blest weekend, jstsj   {from February 2016)     “. . … Continue reading →

Monday,  January 29 “I know Thou takest pleasure in my singing . . . “   Tagore Gitanjali # 2 This Monday we begin the last week of this year’s January,  an ordinary work week perhaps, the out of the ordinary … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 24 “I hear from my Inuit and Yupik relatives up north that everything has changed.  It’s so hot; there is not enough winter. Animals are confused. Ice is melting.” Poets who have come to inhabit my imagination since … Continue reading →

“Holy Dark” a Repetition according to St. Ignatius Posted on January 23, 2014 by In The Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius teaches methods of prayer.  One of the most important he calls the “Repetition.” (i.e., “Attention should be paid to some more important [remembered] places … Continue reading →

Friday  January 19    —  “to stand still and listen to the wind” Last November 25 someone sent me this poem, acting on a hunch that the poet would capture my attention.  I place poems sent to me this way … Continue reading →