“Poetry gives me my mighty-spidy-mojo!
Jeepers! I’d be lost without my daily dose!”
Spiderman
Poem Archive
September 2026 ~ For the Sleepwalkers
I love every line of this poem, how it points to radical trust using a strange metaphor for blind faith: sleepwalking. Hirsch’s short clauses create images that arrive at mandate or waking up to ourselves. [...]
August 2026 ~ (You are here to) risk your heart
This poem’s a Love Song. It’s for you. Why are we here? It sure as hell isn’t to prove worth or accumulate stuff. And all the other things we do to ward off pain and [...]
July 2026 ~ I Confess
This poem (oh, Alison Luterman, how I love thee!) inspires me to write one in response in which Luterman's speaker poses her real questions to the stranger, who frankly strikes me as a goddess, as [...]
June 2026 ~ Wildlife
In this lovely prose poem, we meet a grieving woman and a rescued iguana. I imagine her, shouldering the weight of her troubles, when she suddenly realizes…even this is something. This small, simple or ordinary [...]
May 2026 ~ trauma is not sacred
with no punctuation, this free-verse poem creates a sense of immediacy and intensity. its uninterrupted flow of statements burst throughout the text block. they read as a litany that swells toward intimacy. the primary presence [...]
April 2026 ~ I am the one
Happy National Poetry & Earth Month! St. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) was a polymath; a poetess and environmentalist; a nun, theologian, visionary and botanist who loved the earth. In her cosmology, Wisdom is a Cosmic [...]
March 2026 ~ Three Times My Life Has Opened
This enigmatic poem suggests an intimacy with mystery; we will recognize what our poet is saying – or we won’t. It’s ok. Instead of trying to dig into meaning, let the poem work its magic. [...]
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. [...]
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