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Poem about light
You can try to strangle light.
By Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno 11.30.09 SPIRIT

Death barged in
He has been here ever since.
By Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno 8.24.09 SPIRIT

Totem games
Guess who I am.
By Yvonne Seon 3.23.09 SPIRIT

Poem: Bad news in the ER
'Your son was at a concert when he collapsed.'
By Emily Ferrara 8.18.08 SPIRIT

Poem: Rain on water
The sky echoes the underwater world.
By Freya Manfred 8.18.08 SPIRIT

Four haiku
Natural moments in seventeen syllables.
By Tom Stites 10.29.07 SPIRIT

Poem for an inked daughter
A mother reaches across the generations.
By Jean Wyrick 10.16.06 SPIRIT

Poem: Those days
Summer memories.
By Mary Oliver 6.26.06 SPIRIT

Poem: Kingfisher
Feeding the birds.
By Lee Robinson 5.8.06 SPIRIT

A ritual is born
Once, twice, ritual!
By Karen Lee Shelley 4.10.06 SPIRIT

Poem: Flowering
Grow a life here.
By Linda Buckmaster 3.20.06 SPIRIT

That was I
A poem from U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser's Pulitzer prize-winning book.
By Ted Kooser 12.5.05 SPIRIT

Opening words, May-June 2005

By John Andrew Storey 5.1.05 SPIRIT

Just cause
A line is crossed.
By George Witte SPIRIT

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