Category: Poetry

  • A POEM A DAY 224

    When Love Goes Quiet We sleep in the same bed like strangerssharing a bus ride—eyes forward, hands careful not to touch.Your breath is weather I no longer feel,warm air passing over glass.Conversation clinks like dishes stacked wrong,too loud, too thin,every word chipped at the edge.I taste distance in my coffee,bitter, cooling before I remember to…

  • Friday Favorites: Cædmon’s Hymn

    -by Cædmon Nu sculon herigeanNow we must praiseheofonrices weardheaven-kingdom’s Guardian,meotodes meahtethe Measurer’s mightand his modgeþancand his mind-plans,weorc wuldor-fæderthe work of the Glory-Father,swa he wundra gehwæswhen he of wonders of every one,ece drihteneternal Lord,or onstealdethe beginning established.He ærest sceopHe first createdielda bearnumfor men’s sonsheofon to hrofeheaven as a roof,halig scyppendholy Creator;ða middangeardthen middle-earthmoncynnes Weardmankind’s Guardian,ece drihteneternal…

  •  A POEM A DAY 220

    Hear Me? God, can you hear me?Are you counting my tears,do you know my heart—the weight it carries in silence?Can you feel my fearswhen sorrow settles heavy,when I am weary, my soultattered and torn?Do you hear my crywhen words abandon me,when the depths of my distresshave no name?I reach for youon unbended knees,offering what I…

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  •  A POEM A DAY 215

    The Wind Remembers The wind remembers the day you were born—your first breath,the first tear you cried,your first heartbreak,your first love,your first skinned knee.It remembers how you learned to standby falling,how laughter arrived before language,how grief taught your name its weight.It followed you through open windows,waited in the hush before goodbyes,pressed its palm against your…