Reaching Peace
By Marian Glaser © (July, 1995) Picture Link This mountain is steep. Many obstacles impede the climb to the top. A plum tree blossoms....
By Marian Glaser © (July, 1995) Picture Link This mountain is steep. Many obstacles impede the climb to the top. A plum tree blossoms....
By Marian Glaser © (September, 2004) Picture link To survive this sometimes bleak existence and resist its insidious erosion, I need...
By Marian Glaser © (March, 2005) Picture Link A respite from growls, yells and sobs is framed in golden light, numinous like the apple...
By Marian Glaser © (June, 1995) Picture Link Winter sun filters through heavy air, softening harsh landscape outlines. The lacy pattern...
By Marian Glaser © Picture Link Passion can make me change shape. A small seed unfurls shoots, grows roots, leaves, flowers and branches,...
By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link '...there will always be that secret elsewhere..' - Penelope Lively, 'City of the Mind' Skipping...
By John Morris Healy © Picture Link The folksinger -Looking Like A white trash Lucrezia Borgia Looking Like A slutty St. Cecelia. - Moans...
By Marian Glaser Picture Link I hear Pan piping on his syrinx, surpassing Apollo’s stately notes with his wild melodies. He’s heard in...
by Marian Glaser Picture Link A place for two before these flames that dip and soar behind the grate. I wish it wasn’t wool caressing the...
Marian Glaser © September, 2001 Picture Link A poet was driven strange trying to find a rhyme for orange. She found lots of half rhymes...
Marian Glaser © November 1998 Picture Link I wandered through life’s burning desert, parched, desiccated, almost dead, seeing mirages....
Marian Glaser © Oct.-Nov. 2000 Picture Link Glasses and plates on the floor, covering the table. Mike said he’d help clean when he...
by John Morris Healy © Picture Link Heartless Dull Sorrow Resident In A shadowed corner Where -Hair Matted. Faces:- Pale and Agony...
By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link Always here and now In all the blood and mess Everyone is born - Their start holds fast Then fades...
Marian Glaser © 1999 Picture Link I can remember every evil my first husband committed and relive each pain. I can remember a soft cheek...
Marian Glaser © August, 2004 Picture Link Not being able to mount buses or climb stairs makes me mourn both lost agility and other’s...
Excerpt from page 40 of Painting Peace: Art in a Time of Global Crisis by Kazuaki Tanahashi © 2018 Waka: Japanese Poem, 31 Syllables...
Excerpt from page 40 of Painting Peace: Art in a Time of Global Crisis by Kazuaki Tanahashi © 2018 Waka: Japanese Poem, 31 Syllables...
By Alfred Lord Tennyson © 1832 (source) Picture Link The mariners are put into an altered state when they eat the lotos. During this...
By Marian Glaser © January, 1996 Picture Link When I awake and see you still sleeping beside me my heart fills with happiness and love....