photograph by Hayley Crews
"Western Bluebirds, American Robins," is a poem I wrote for the virtual 2020 Peace & Justice Fair in Vancouver, Southwest Washington. https://vancouverpeaceandjusticefair.org/fair-day/
With gratitude to New Verse News, you'll see the posting of the poem on…
With gratitude to TheNewVerse.News for publishing a poem today that emerged from a virtual Willamette Writers Resilience workshop with Claudia F. Saleeby Savage. The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.
See Saturday, August 8, 2020 6:00 AM:…
Spotted Towhee
https://www.ecotheo.org/two-poems-by-gwendolyn-morgan/ Grateful to EcoTheo Review : ENLIVENING CONVERSATIONS AND COMMITMENTS AROUND ECOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY, AND ART. Two of my poems on the website, and one included in Summer 2020 issue.
Black Bear Eating Dandelions in July
"According to the Mayan galactic calendar," Stephanie Austin writes, "July 25th is The Day out of Time, marking the end of a yearly cycle and the beginning of a new one. Similar to a new moon and a new year,…
"Knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks
Black-faced ibis
“’Where there is sorrow,’ wrote Oscar Wilde, 'there is holy ground.'... [grief] enables us to walk in this world with its realities of life and death, how it shakes us and breaks us open to depths of soul we could not imagine. Grief offers…
Photograph by Paul Downs, Salmon Creek, 2020
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This Black Swan (native to Southern Australia) has been seen along Salmon Creek trail. May you find shelter in winged ones and poems, needed medicine for our spirits.
The Academy of American Poets has a…
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. …
Un Río, Muchas Voces
One River, Many Voices, Clark County confluence:
“The Columbia River is the fourth largest
river in the continental United States. Seven hundred seventy-one (771) of its
1,243 miles flow through the State of Washington, descending south from the
Canadian Rockies and eventually turning westward…