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Online Poetry Box

Poems for Contemplation and Inspiration

In the fall of 2020, I set up a poetry box in our front yard and began displaying weekly poems for members of our community to enjoy as they stroll by our home. The enthusiastic response to that box inspired me to begin sharing those poems with the wider world.

I hope you’ll find your mind and soul nurtured by the poems provided here.

Recent Posts
Perhaps the World Ends Here
Perhaps the World Ends Here

Helen Keller once wrote that, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” How very true that is. And yet . . .

The Sun
The Sun

There are only two days each year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting an almost equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes. . . .

I’m a Dreamer
I’m a Dreamer

Today we honor Black History Month with a poem about dreaming . . .

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

— George Sand