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Tag: miracles

Featured Poetry

Liam Wholihan – Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup

August 6, 2023August 3, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Liam Wholihan offers a lament for several different things in his complex "Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup".

Tagged elegy, loss, miracle, miracles, miraculous birth, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, virgin birthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samantha Wright – And Again

December 12, 2021December 10, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Wright's And Again is a fluid study of nature's blessings and miracles, and humanity's struggle to comprehend those humble quiet blessings.

Tagged Belief, blessing, Gift, greed, miracles, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, proof, rivers, Water1 Comment
All About Love

Malignant – A Love Story

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

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.

Tagged Death, friendship, illness, love, miracles, relationship, triangulation1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Cristina Legarda – Mary

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Cristina Legarda's tender poem "Mary" is written from the viewpoint of the mother of Jesus Christ, as she looks back with a heart full of love and sadness at moments with her divine child.

Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, jesus, loss, love, Mary, miracles, motherhood, parenthood, Poem, Poetry, Sadness1 Comment
Bathtub Bubbles
Way-Seeking Mind

The Rose-Pink Porcelain Bathtub

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY CHARLENE MOSKAL At around age seven I'd lie in tepid water in the rose-pink porcelain bathtub. I would look down the skinny length of me, close my eyes, imagine I was Jesus.

Tagged baptism, Bathtub, childhood, faith, heroes, hope, jesus, miraclesLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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