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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.

Open the Box!
Open the Box!
Recent Posts
Blessing for the Brokenhearted
Blessing for the Brokenhearted

There are so many ways for a heart to be broken that sometimes it seems we’re walking around in a world filled with sledgehammers. . . .

Enter Book
Enter Book

One of the quietest joys of life is opening a book—anticipating the adventure of traveling through words we’ve never before read . . .

The Enkindled Spring
The Enkindled Spring

I love this poem for the way its verbs capture the dynamism of Spring. It bursts, puffs, lifts, fumes, flickers, lights, grows, leaps, and combusts. Can you see it, too, these acrobatics of the season?

“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