Category: Poems

Exerpt from ‘Writing Speaks’ chapter in my forthcoming biography : I do something I’ve never done in my adult life…..I write a poem…… The name […]

  We are children of God, vessels into which we awaken This gift of life that is not easily forsaken As pitiful humans we might […]

Tenderness is exquisite Potent and gentle Soft and unyielding She doesn’t judge Battered and bruised She doesn’t fix But quietly enables Surrendering your guard Smiling […]

To accept the unacceptable To satiate the insatiable To speak the unspeakable To believe the unbelievable To bear the unbearable And to own the disowned. […]

Stranded in limbo Between the worlds We exist again Night after night Returning to You Intermingling as One Surrendered in presence Floating cosmic womb This […]

When I allow the deep grief to be fully present, then spontaneous joy,  can miraculously also be possible, just as Kahlil Gibran shares in ‘The Prophet’ […]

She flies free now releasing all pain and suffering Courage to endure beyond safe holding Only I know what she gave, how bravely she fought […]