The dark things of the wood Are coming from their caves, Flexing muscle. They browse the orchard, Nibble the sea of grasses Around our yellow rooms, Scarcely looking in To see what we are doing And if they still know us. We hear them, or think we do: The muzzle lapping moonlight, The tooth in [...]

One would be in less danger From the wiles of a stranger If one’s own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. This poem was written/submitted by Ogden Nash.

They call it stroke. Two we loved were stunned by that same blow of cudgel or axe to the brow. Lost on the earth they left our circle broken. One spent five months falling from our grasp mute, her grace, wit, beauty erased. Her green eyes gazed at us as if asking, as if aware, [...]

Little and big secrets silence, unsharing from shame, for protection blank spots in the telling of our story Carved off areas sometimes casually shared As if we knew, forgetting the secret the missing words names crossed from address books pain pushed down Missing memories scraps of childhood undiscussed. This poem was written/submitted by Raymond A. [...]

We came again, to that small home in Bethany home to two sisters and a now risen brother Three believers, friends of the Christ, the savior God made flesh at the beginning of his Passion Three richly blessed friends who teach us lessons as they were taught, of the essential things, of His nature, of [...]

A night out, cut short needing to go back home to put them to bed, to give her rest time to mend and heal, no regrets of the change the redirection home where we needed to be resting when we needed to no regrets at all This poem was written/submitted by Raymond A. Foss.

Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot fit instantly familiar names; voices still the same despite the extra grey, the extra lines, like sacred family metaphors not blurred with passing time. Uncles greeted cousins, nieces hailed their aunts in private spaces kept [...]

To be apart of a family like mine is so divine where love is shown hurt is shared our love for each other is never impaired we talk we laugh we cry but we are a family and we do it all together for as a family we do it all as one you hurt [...]

To be apart of a family like mine is so divine where love is shown hurt is shared our love for each other is never impaired we talk we laugh we cry but we are a family and we do it all together for as a family we do it all as one you hurt [...]

My family will forever be in my heart, My sister’s mean more to me, More than life, All I ever wanted was a complete family, To have a mother whom I never met, My family will always remain who they are in my heart and soul, My family is more important than my friends and [...]