Poetic Medicine

By Charles Bukowski if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of ...

By Bob Dylan  Well, my shoes, they come from Singapore My flashlight’s from Taiwan My tablecloth’s from Malaysia My belt buckle’s from ...

By Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when ...

By Pablo Neruda There is something dense, united, settled in the depths, repeating its number, its identical sign. How it is noted that ...

but they are mostly dated and filled with words like thine and o’er and behold. And yes, I do want something about the snow, and the lig...

By Annie Finch Vines, leaves, roots of darkness, growing, now you are uncurled and cover our eyes with the edge of winter sky leanin...

Dear Straight People, Who do you think you are? Do you have to make it so obvious that I make you uncomfortable? Why do I make you uncom...

By Douglas Malloch The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in the open plain And always got i...

By Laura Gail Grohe Know this: The world is not a safe place. You are not guaranteed a place at the table. In fact, you will know grief s...

who will break the glass ceiling who will fight for what is right who will not grow weary in doing good who will reap what we sow who wi...

By Gwendolyn Brooks Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you ...

By Rukmini Kalamangalam The first rain after the hurricane We held our breath Tried not to imagine what it would feel like to be drownin...

By Anne Porter Give praise with psalms that tell the trees to sing, Give praise with Gospel choirs in storefront churches, Mad with the ...

By Alberto Ríos One river gives Its journey to the next. We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us. We g...

By Eve Lyons Being robbed makes everyone a suspect: the man coming out of his apartment next door, the garbage man, the man on the street ch...

By Quincy Troupe take it to the hoop, “magic” johnson, take the ball dazzling down the open lane herk & jerk & raise your six-fe...

By Douglas Sagal Today it is written, today it is sealed in the United States of America- Who shall die, and who shall be injured who sh...

By Ruth Goring 1. Last night a couple of church friends and I were at the Chicago O’Hare protest against the Muslim ban and the border wa...

By William Brewer Always this warm moment when I forget which part of me I blamed. Never mind the pills kicking in, their spell that s...

visiting a past self. Being anywhere makes me thirsty. When I wake, I ask God to slide into my head quickly before I do. As a boy, I spit ...