Poetry

Poem Ending with a Line by Rumi

by Barbara Crooker
White-throated sparrows dart in and out of the hedgerow, their sweet long notes rising above…
Poetry

Nativity

by Barbara Crooker
The amaryllis bulb, dumb as dirt, inert, how can anything spring from this clod, this…
Sand timer with blue sand.
Poetry

In the Middle

by Barbara Crooker
of a life that’s as complicated as everyone else’s, struggling for balance, juggling time. The…
Poetry

Gratitude

by Barbara Crooker
This week, the news of the world is bleak, another war grinding on, and all…
Poetry

Life

by Barbara Crooker
This is what life does. It hits you like a stone through the window in…
Poetry

Ordinary Life

by Barbara Crooker
This was a day when nothing happened, the children went off to school without a…
Poetry

Solstice

by Barbara Crooker
These are dark times. Rumors of war rise like smoke in the east. Drought widens…
Poetry

Sometimes, I Am Startled Out of Myself,

by Barbara Crooker
like this morning, when the wild geese came squawking, flapping their rusty hinges, and something…
Poetry

Ode to Chocolate

by Barbara Crooker
I hate milk chocolate, don't want clouds of cream diluting the dark night sky, don't…
Poetry

All That Is Glorious Around Us

by Barbara Crooker
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