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.”
“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.”
Healing / Poems / Self-Discovery
by Devorah Fox · Published January 4, 2017 · Last modified February 22, 2017
How Devorah stopped surrendering her unique gifts to please her husband, and instead learned to honour and accept herself.
Courage / Poems / Self-Discovery
by Vironika Tugaleva · Published December 6, 2016 · Last modified February 22, 2017
An honest poem about self-doubt, leadership, humility, and the creative process.
Family & Relationships / Healing / Poems
by Jessica Mehta · Published October 25, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
“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”
“My mind goes where my heart
dares not; feelings and logic;
tug-of-war.”
“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”
Janaya Martin’s intimate and candid poem about coping with the death of her father while trying to cultivate forgiveness.
Healing / Poems / Self-Discovery
by Aniiyah Klock · Published July 9, 2016 · Last modified October 16, 2016
“Almost a year has passed. A year. And I feel a longing. A longing to go back. To return to the woman with…”
Sabrina’s powerful poem about healing, forgiveness, and the profound strength of letting go.
Featured on National Public Radio, this is Michael’s powerful, evocative poem about the day of his father’s funeral.