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Category: Lifesaving Poems

Intense

Intense   Look out here comes that bloke with the worn out eyes. He’s always coming ’round here with his … More

Billy Penn's Brother, Ivor Cutler, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Richard Nicholson, Ruckus in Real Time, Theodore Roethke

Poem of the year?

Before I start, I want to say that this is not about stats. This is not about stats. What this … More

Bloodaxe Books, Cancer, Chemobrain, Covid-19, Derek Mahon, Everything is going to be all right, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Remission

The Sky Over My Mother’s House

The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More

Grief, Jaime Manrique, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

What you missed

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento … More

Advent, Brad Aaron Modlin, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot

Before

Before No shoes and a glossyred helmet, I rodeon the back of my dad’sHarley at seven years old.Before the divorce.Before … More

Ada Limon, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Writing

A holiness to exhaustion

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

Carrie Fountain, Exhaustion, Grief, James Schuyler, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

Ourselves again

Tollund That Sunday morning we had travelled far. We stood a long time out in Tollund Moss: The low ground, … More

Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, Tollund, US Election 2020, US Politics

Be kind

Be Kind Not merely because Henry James saidthere were but four rules of life—be kind be kind be kind be … More

Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Michael Blumenthal, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics, US Election 2020

You’ve got to write it all down

The unexamined life’s no different from                              … More

Bereavement, Charles Wright, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

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