“This Solitude” – a poem expressing the feeling I sometimes had in this year of COVID. For introverts like myself, all the social isolation wasn’t such unfamiliar ground, and brought even more moments of quiet …
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New poem, “This Solitude”
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New poem, “Small Lives”
Here is a poem for all the little things I try to notice every day. We miss so much in our busy human lives, but they carry on in theirs without noticing all the fuss. …
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THROUGH MY LENS: Waking woods
In those in-between times, like now, a real sense of possibility emerges for me...
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New poem, “Best in Black”
This is a poem I wrote shortly after a friend's son died tragically young last month.
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New poem, “Moonspell”
A short ode to last week’s full moon that shined so brightly. Always on those nights I’m reminded of how people have looked up at it for thousands of years, awed, just like I was …
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New poem, “Lightkeeper”
This is a poem for one of my dearest friends, who believes that the role and responsibility for some of in this world is simply to be a quiet ray of light and hope for …
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At a crossroads: Where do I go from here?
Nursing was always supposed to be plan B. But since I became an RN fourteen years ago, it’s always been plan A. You can’t work as a nurse and not have so much of your life become about that.
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New poem, “Holding Faith”
I’ve been thinking about how everything in existence has an opposite, and how I believe that must include the larger, cosmic, and spiritual forces at work all around us.
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New poem, “Strange and Lovely”
Although it’s title could well describe the sudden warm spell we’re having in upstate New York, this poem is about sometimes finding beauty and a sense of kinship where you least expect it.
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New poem, “Sweet Regard”
A short tribute to all the life we share this planet with...
