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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
Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice

I’ve been thinking a lot about fire lately, trying to wrap my head around the terrible destruction it is now causing in California. . . .

New Every Morning
New Every Morning

As the new year approaches, people all over the world are engaging in rites and rituals that help us let go of what has been and prepare for what it to come. . . .

Approaching Solstice
Approaching Solstice

During the past few weeks, as the skies have grown darker, the days shorter, and the wind more chilling, our town has come alive with lights. . . .

“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