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Poetry
Poetry
If You Can’t Love an Ordinary Bird
"If you can’t love an ordinary bird, / a cardinal, for example, on a branch..."
Neil Kennedy
Poetry
Upon Reflection
"Locked out after Letterman, / hesitant to knock, / I tried to find my keys..."
Amy Baskin
Poetry
The Second Million Miles
"Sometimes you need / to learn to travel in the quiet."
Bill Jolliff
Poetry
Old Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
"What's left of George Fox / is somewhere nearby..."
Bartholomew Barker
Poetry
Quaker Meeting
Our family flew across the countryto visit Quaker grandparents,have them meet and actually seehow our young children had grown:She was…
Ruth Naylor
Poetry
In a Maine Quaker Meetinghouse
God is One breath of silenceBefore a loon’s cry— We wait.
Dorothy Anna Moore
Poetry
Elemental
Messages can arrive as breath—mostly unnoticed,or as a breeze to cool the sweat of effort.These I accept with gratitude,But not…
Veronica Burrows
Poetry
Way Will Open
Way will open.As we learn to live with this pandemic.Our hearts broken.Our vulnerability exposed. Grief,   Anger,     Sadness, Me, myself and IWho am I?Within…
Susan Greenler Stoughton, Wis.
Poetry
The Garden of COVID
In your garden, getting lostin lilac coneflowers, minglingwith the bees and hummers,your grin another bloom. I move out of the…
Caroline Johnson
Poetry
Distance from the Storm
Clean mask in hand, I stand and look across the yard.Warren works the garden, scratching down a dusty row.From a…
David Milley
Poetry
Three Poems
Test Results You’re negative.Are you sure?I’m positive. normalcy in chaos hearing her harping on all that’s changedsince this virus struckmakes me…
Carl "Papa" Palmer
Poetry
Repair
When a treasured tea bowl shattered,the kintsugi master glued the fragmentswith a paste of lacquer mixed with powdered gold.The lacquer…
Richard Schiffman
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