Resolution Blessing By Mattie Stepanek From Reflections of a Peacemaker (2005): Let our breath be gentle wind
Poetry for Us — December 2025
To Friendship By Eloise Greenfield It’s time for the party And as we begin Let’s do a sentimental thing Let’s lift our punch To the bunch (that’s us) We’ll say that our friendship is dear and We’ll promise to keep it from year to year And this toast we’ll repeat […]
Poetry for Us — November 2025
Peace Path by Heid E. Erdrich speaks to the real and metaphorical walk taken by Native Americans over the centuries.
Poetry for Us — October 2025
The poem Mixed-Up School by X.J. Kennedy is from the book Exploding Gravy: Poems to Make You Laugh, 2002
Poetry for Us — September 2025
Joan Baez read her original poem titled “Falling Rocks” in a video. The poem tries “to give a voice to children who are being silenced.”
Poetry for Us — August 2025
This month we’re featuring 2 poems — Kindness to Animals, but an anonymous poet, and Ice Cream Truck by Terri Kirby Erickson
Poetry for Us — Younger than War
This month’s poem, Younger Than War, by Mosab Abu Toha, gives the author’s viewpoint of a September 2020 attack in Palestine.
Poetry for Children — A Child’s Delight
A Child’s Delight by Margaret Wise Brown is from the book Nibble, Nibble. At the edge of the grass; Sat a bug in a glass; Wild.