“Poetry gives me my mighty-spidy-mojo!
Jeepers! I’d be lost without my daily dose!”
Spiderman
Poem Archive
February 2026 ~ Why plague your heart with indecision?
The intelligence Rumi speaks of is Heart-centered, intuitive and innate. The great Unifier requires no study and applies to us and every species on the planet. When up against we'rethe limits of the mind’s logic [...]
January 2026 ~ A Coney Island of the Mind, 13
Happy New Year! There were a billion amazing contenders to kick off 2026. Yet this poem so lit me up, flooded me with such a surge of YES, I know it had to lead the [...]
December 2025 – Astonishment
Friend, this poem is for you. Read it, and consider its question: Then why have we kept up the singing for so long? Given the line before that one - Our time seems to be [...]
November 2025 ~ Revenge
I want us to read to each other, feel the power of this poem in our bones, feel the alchemy this poem works in the Heart – how it blossoms with longing, sorrow & love. [...]
October 2025 ~ Heavy
The first POTM I published on October 1st 2003 was MO’s When Death Comes. 19 years later, I celebrate this milestone with another extraordinary MO poem in which she embraces the dark and the light. [...]
September 2025 ~ Conservative Party HQ Lunchtime Menu
This poem made me laugh and cry at the same time. It’s a brilliant, scathing response by an ingenious poet to his government for their refusal to extend school meals to kids in need [...]
August 2025 ~ Not According to Plan
Life unfolds as it does without permission or consent. Frustrating, yes. But… what if, when plans are thwarted, we were to notice, as our poet does, what we’d otherwise overlook? Ask what we might learn [...]
July 2025 – Kiss
This poem inspires me to send you kisses, whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever species you are (well, maybe not a komodo dragon). And what of the life-saving kiss our poet depicts? To paraphrase [...]
June 2025 ~ If You Have Had Your Midnights
Our poet’s exquisitely chosen 26 words do something in me: they evoke deep empathy & longing. How I want us to sing beauty, tenderness & kindness to each other in our midnights! Poetry has power [...]
May 2025 ~ Self-Portrait as So Much Potential
Chen’s poetry reads like “an elegy that has felt light”*. He turns in place like a dancer, pivots from grief, racism, homophobia & vulnerability - to joy, whimsical humor & a recurrent motif: love. His [...]
April 2025 ~ Imaginary Conversation
Happy National Poetry Month! Vivat Poesis! This poem asks a question that transforms a conventional idea, then illuminates a tiny detail, casting it in a sacred light. We can do this, too. For example, take [...]
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 [...]
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