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Poetry
Poetry
Pronouns for God
Finally you have a name for it,that distant, other, eternally-plural presence.Not a beetle-browed patriarch or an earthy queen,Not male, female,…
Patricia Crosby
Poetry
Faith,
a spinning jump rope, rising and falling, fickle as the wind...
Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry
How I Say God
"When she died, my mother left me with joy..."
Robin Dellabough
Poetry
Confessions of an Ex-Elder
"In the early days / before the great divorce / we used the dreadful language / of compliance..."
Nancy Thomas
Poetry
Receive Me
. . . and a woman named Martha received him into her house. Luke 10:38
Paul Willis
Poetry
Perennials
"When I biked up the hills / to your house, I saw you / planting bulbs in your yard..."
Mary Timberlake
Poetry
A Way
"Some saints point with wooden spoons, and pray with brooms..."
James Littwin
Poetry
Benediction, Eastern Correctional
"Seated in a circle in the small room allowed us, the men wear their prison greens, like gas station attendants..."
Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes
Poetry
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Dear Mr./Ms. [Insert Name Here]: We are sorry writing to inform youof the death of your son/daughter [Choose one]. As…
Katherine Shehadeh
Poetry
Six Poems
Poems by recognized poet and clerk of Cuba Yearly Meeting of Friends.
Jorge Luis Peña Reyes
Poetry
The Roses
"Beyond the wall the distant roses shone, / the roses not their roses, not their own..."
Paul Willis
Poetry
Right Plant, Right Place
Since we chose our seeds / to cast upon rocky soil, / let's not blame the ground.
Margaret Fisher
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