Joy Sullivan's poem on the lived sense of healing while being held in another person's deep, loving attention.
Tag: friendship
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – For When We Greet Each Other
A poem about seeing and honoring what is divine in others and in ourselves, as though all our lives depended on it.
Mary McGinnis – Trail Prayer
Just in time for springtime, New Mexico poet Mary McGinnis beckons us out into great outdoors with her poem "Trail Prayer".
John O’Donohue on Soul Friendship
Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.
Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula
Joshua C. Allen's The White Oak Peninsula is an ode to a place, a nostalgic discourse into earthy wildness and days of youth and adventure that many of us can relate to.
Malignant – A Love Story
BY CYNDY CENDAGORTA As her friend fell sick while she fell in love, she realized we don't get to choose our miracles or our malignancies.
On Being Plan B
BY ELIZABETH BLUE The car that had been broken into wasn't mine. It wasn't his, either. Technically it belonged to his girlfriend – his primary partner of fifteen years.
Brandon McQuade – Two Whiskies
Brandon McQuade's poem, 'Two Whiskies', is a melancholy narrative of the author's dream of a late friend.
Robert Bly – When William Stafford Died
After the death of the poet William Stafford in 1993, his friend Robert Bly wrote this tribute against the image of water flowing down the rocks of Montana gullies.
Sanctuary
BY KENT JACOBSON A baseball field was a sanctuary for a small community of boys who were surrounded by angry fathers they were too young to understand.