Category Archives: Poetry

January 1, 2012

Year 2, Day 1: A Song For the New Year

TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR 2012 The Second Year of the Second Decade of the 21st Century A Song For the New Year From A Sheltered Place I’ve stopped to watch a man skipping stones in a … Continue reading →

3 Comments

Filed under Hope, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, This Moment

March 14, 2011

Day 72: Japan: The Epicenter of Our Hearts

13 March 2011 The 72nd Day of 2011 The devastation from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami has reached incomprehensible proportions. The coverage on television, especially on CNN, has been complete and graphic. Yet, no matter how many times I see the angry … Continue reading →

5 Comments

Filed under Community, Compassion, Friendship, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Memories, Poetry, Relationships, This Moment, Time

Tagged as aftershocks, brainheart, California earthquakes, cnn, compassion, epicenter, global neighbors, grief, haiju poems, How to Be Sick, Japan, jewish prayers, katie bamberger, March 11 2011, Matsu Basho, matural disasters, mother earth, shifted axis, tectonic plates, the kaddish, tonglen, Toni Bernhard, tremors, tsunami, tweets

February 14, 2011

Day 44: Burning Freedom

14 February 2011 The 44th Day of 2011: The Lifecycle of Freedom and the Power of Words On the 11th day of February… last Friday… after 18 days of a determined, often angry, but consistently peaceful massive resistance and protest… Egypt was … Continue reading →

4 Comments

Filed under Community, Hope, Inspiration, Poetry, Politics, Relationships, Seasons, This Moment, Women, Writers

Tagged as 3rd century b.c., akhmatova, alexander at thebes, alexandria, alexandria egypt, Burning freedom, debate, democratic representation, dictator, dictatorship, Egypt, Egypt is free, egypt revolution, email, email revolution, facebook, facebook revolution, family, female poets, female voices, female writers, founding fathers, freedom, friends, from this terrace, goodwill, husbands, internet, internet revolution, library at alexandria, lifecycle, lovers, Mona Helmy, mubarak, new government, new nation, peaceful protest, poetry, power, power of words, prayer, protest, reform, resignation of mubarak, revolution in egypt, Robin Morgan, tahrir square, twitter, twitter revolution, women and revolution, women poets, women writers, women's media center, women's voices

January 24, 2011

Day 24

Monday. This is the 24th day of 2011. This year no longer feels so young to me. Tucson prematurely aged the calendar and many of us along with it. I am determined to stay far from the shadow of fear … Continue reading →

4 Comments

Filed under Hope, Life, Poetry, Relationships, Seasons, This Moment, Time

Tagged as 1/24/11, alida brill, cold, creativity, fear, frigid, from this terrace, hope, ice, January 24th, manhattan, meditation, Rainer Maria Rilke, renewal, rilke’s XIIIth sonnet, solitude, Sonnets to Orpheus, spring, stone sage lion, terrace, tucson, tundra, urban tundra, winter, wintering through, wisdom