Passing On
Understanding all the problems in this complicated world each demanding unremittingly, their craziness unfurled. Keeping track’s a juggling act, for …
Category: . Contemplative
The Foil
You ever wonder why old myths persist in elevating those the gods cast down? An easy trend to note; it …
Sahara Night
It’s thousands of years since the pyramids rose, capped with white marble to make the nights glow. Now silent and …
Tassels of Eternity
Poets were asked to sit with this quote and write whatever it brought to mind. Three of the outstanding responses …
Made
What are you, the Human, made of? / From the loving cup of the giant ammonite / the milliard glistening crystals of predatory lenses / the world-girdling scramble of the kelpie’s mane …
Dreams Led Me Here
I’ve left the world I knew behind for there are treasures I must find. The future is a course that …
After “Desiderata” (Collection)
Contestants were asked to respond to the timeless message of Max Ehrmann’s 1927 poetic prose essay. Their winning entries follow …
Pietra Dura
Here is the closed blue eyelid of time you touch to make sure, to see. Through a flat window of …