Poetic Medicine

By Norman B. Colp  Overslept.  So tired.  If late, Get fired.  Why bother?  Why the pain?  Just go home.  Do it again. T...

By John Tustin The loneliness gets to be like a friend who stays at the party too long: I resent him, I want him to go home. But I k...

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti I am waiting for my case to come up    and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someo...

By Ren Jender In high school the only legal place to listen to decent music was art class.“I like David Bowie”, my friend Shirley opined t...

By Geffrey Davis  My father held the unspoken version of this story along the bridge of his shoulders: This is how we face and cast to t...

By Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers li...

By JoyAnne O'Donnell I always felt the summer was blessed with fruit with flowers that color and scent our hunger for life ou...

By Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. ...

By Susan Cooper And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people sin...

By John Trudell  She has a young face An old face She carries herself well In all ages She survives all man has done In some tribes ...

By Brittney Corrigan I wasn’t enough. My new eyes, dark and starshined, weren’t enough. My downy scalp, still fragrant with the scent of...

By Harriet Maxwell Converse Based on a traditional Iroquois prayer  We who are here present thank the Great Spirit that we are here  to...

By Naomi Shihab Nye   Roselva says the only thing that doesn’t change    is train tracks. ...

By Karuna Ezara Parikh It is not Paris we should pray for. It is the world. It is a world in which Beirut reeling from bombings two days...

By Siegfried Sassoon   Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend...

By Eve Lyons Watching Pulp Fiction on Israeli TV, the camp-like kibbutz fast asleep. Lexi complaining of bugs in the bed we shared. Sh...

By Audre Lorde The black unicorn is greedy. The black unicorn is impatient. The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and ...

By Karen Estrella After Joshua Bennett   “Say it” you command sing it and yet I seem to have lost my voice I seem to have lost The...

By Adrienne Su A crate of peaches straight from the farm has to be maintained, or eaten in days. Obvious, but in my family, they went so ...

Yad Mordechai. Those who fell here   still look out the windows like sick children who are not allowed outside to play. And on the hills...