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Poem Archive
March 2025 ~ More Of This, Please
A hand reaches out through the cold, a voice warmly asks - are you okay? Definitely, more of this, please. Now, try this: write your own More Of This, Please poem. Please, may the ground of [...]
February 2025 ~ Book of Genesis
Let this month of purification free us of despair. Let the spirit of creation move freely within us. Let there be courage to call down joy. Let the heart’s dreams be silent no more. Let it [...]
January 2025 ~ Advice to Myself: #2 Resistance
May we be wise in discerning what to resist and what to embrace while enacting our creative visions with “hope: a verb with its sleeves rolled up.” (Daniel Wahl) XO, Krayna Advice to Myself #2: Resistance [...]
December 2024 ~ Gentle
I love this wimsical image of the Japanese tanuki* upon his golden throne with a halo of divine light. The tanuki, or "raccoon dog," has a heart of gold that emanates light. Like water, the [...]
November 2024 ~ There Is A Light In Me & To That Which Is Most Important
It’s Election month, thus I pondered what poem to offer up. Anna Świrszczyńska (a.k.a., Anna Swir)! Yes! A Polish poet (1909 -1984), she joined the Resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In 1974 she [...]
October 2024 ~ Two Horses
I chose Two Horses, an homage to A Blessing by James Wright, to celebrate Poem of the Month’s 18th Anniversary. Here, the speaker watches two horses in wonderment, and finally, against the backdrop of a [...]
September 2024 ~
This month's poem is rich with wondering, imagery and memory. Try this: Write a question, then another, and so on, until you have twenty questions. Notice the nature of the questions he asks. You might [...]
August 2024 ~ “You Too Can Look, Smell, Dress, Act This Way”
With love for Plain Jane Goodall. Friends, I give you this prose poem by the inimitable Alice Walker. In this, and her other poems, she invites us to recover awareness of our own beauty and [...]
July 2024 ~ Refrigerator, 1957
Complicated pleasure unfolds during our poet's glowing refrigerator tour: eroticism, sweatshops, sex, churches, yearning. Try this: Write about the contents of a refrigerator from your childhood. Don’t remember? Make it up! Have a wonderful, safe July, [...]
June 2024 ~ Fable
I love this poem’s form, how skillfully it moves us along. Just like one of the characters: quick and smooth. I love the brevity and wit this poet uses to highlight human folly. As I [...]
May 2024 ~ One Hundred and Eighty Degrees
This poem provokes me to question my beliefs. Especially my “sacred cows. It open me up to radically new perspectives. I hope it does the same for you. The word radical, BTW, comes from the [...]
April 2024 ~ The Zen of Tipping
April! Wow! It’s National Poetry Month! Plus April Fool’s and Earth Day! And we have National Sourdough Bread, No Housework and Rubber Eraser Days! And let's all participate in Tell Someone They’re Doing a Great [...]
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