Loneliness is a Bright Screen (A Poem)
“What am I looking for, bright screen?
Melt my time away.
Hours passed grazing everyone’s surface.
After looking at so many shells, I feel hollow.”
Category: Poems
My Faithful Tapestry (A Love Poem)
How Devorah stopped surrendering her unique gifts to please her husband, and instead learned to honour and accept herself.
The Essentials of Self-Doubt (A Poem)
An honest poem about self-doubt, leadership, humility, and the creative process.
Call This a Love Letter, Call It Our Story (A Poem)
“Call this a love letter, call it
Our Story,
unlike anyone else’s, but with threads
and adornments from the Great
Ones—the star-crossed fables, the fairy tales”
The Constellations of My Body (A Poem)
“I tanned the cancer into my flesh …shaved my teeth
to needles …filling
my mouth with bathroom fixtures, let doctors
cut me apart like a hunting prize”
Searching For a Way to Forgive You (Poem)
Janaya Martin’s intimate and candid poem about coping with the death of her father while trying to cultivate forgiveness.
Longing (A Poem)
“Almost a year has passed. A year. And I feel a longing. A longing to go back. To return to the woman with…”
Breakthrough (A Poem)
Sabrina’s powerful poem about healing, forgiveness, and the profound strength of letting go.
Burying My Father (A Poem)
Featured on National Public Radio, this is Michael’s powerful, evocative poem about the day of his father’s funeral.
