Category Archives: Poetry

Lunchbox Love Note

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Jim deMaine

Lunchbox Love Note BY KENN NESBITT Inside my lunch to my surprise a perfect heart-shaped love note lies. The outside says, “Will you be mine?” and, “Will you be my valentine?” I take it out and wonder who would want to … Continue reading →

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“What Cancer Can Do” by Michael Shirk

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Jim deMaine

Michael Shirk died at age 60 from prostate cancer. The poetry he wrote during his battle with cancer was published by Make a Wish Foundation. His mother, Ardis, shared the book with me after the poem called “What Cancer Cannot Do” … Continue reading →

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For a friend with cancer

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Jim deMaine

 

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The gifts of Czeslaw Milosz

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Jim deMaine

We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand. That was long ago. Today … Continue reading →

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Poetic thinking?

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Jim deMaine
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Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects on aging

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Jim deMaine

     From the Poetry Foundation: “Ralph Waldo Emerson was a pioneering figure of what is now called “multiculturalism” who expanded the Eastern horizons of generations of American readers and writers, and he persuasively demonstrated how classical Indian, Chinese, and … Continue reading →

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Withering Into the Truth

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Jim deMaine

by Parker J. Palmer (@ParkerJPalmer), columnist (submitted by MJF) Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun, Now may I wither into the … Continue reading →

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“The History Teacher” by Billy Collins

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Jim deMaine

Trying to protect his student’s innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after … Continue reading →

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Ralph Murre – In Dark December

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Jim deMaine

In Dark December by Ralph Murre Whatever you believe, whatever you do not, there are sacred rites you must perform in dark December. Do this for me: Pull together the kitchen table, the folding table, and that odd half-oval usually … Continue reading →

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Delicious Autumn

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Jim deMaine

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~ George Eliot

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