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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.

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October
October

As Paul Laurence Dunbar points out, October is a lavish month—spilling her treasures across the earth in radiant hues, adorning herself in extravagant beauty. She does not grieve the fleeting nature of her splendor; she simply revels in it.

Barter
Barter

In the midst of the stressors, responsibilities, daily news, and deadlines of contemporary life, it’s all too easy to forget that the world offers us—each and every moment—endless opportunities to experience beauty, wonder, and joy. . . .

Hot Tea
Hot Tea

In reading this poem about a little boy in the plains of central Syria being taught by his grandmother how to stir his tea, I was immediately taken back to my own grandparents’ home in the Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee. . . .

“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