Dear Reader, Hey, you. Yes, you, the one taking a quick break from work, sitting there with your cup of… Read more Light it up
12 Practical Excuses for Reading Poetry Daily
For many busy professionals, reading poetry is not up on the daily to do list. And if it is, it… Read more 12 Practical Excuses for Reading Poetry Daily
12 Radical Reasons to Write Poetry
For most of the first two decades of my business career, I bifurcated my interests between “professional” and “creative.” In… Read more 12 Radical Reasons to Write Poetry
Things on My To Do List: A Poem by Kelly Belmonte
THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST Rilke’s Things sit solid, not alive like humans, not walking, not speaking except when… Read more Things on My To Do List: A Poem by Kelly Belmonte
After All: A Poem by Becka Choat
After All I hadn’t thought spring would be beautiful, seen without you. ***** Becka Choat is a lifelong lover of… Read more After All: A Poem by Becka Choat
Spring: A Poem by Holly Ordway
Spring can be an unpredictable season – in Houston, where I lived for four years, it could be over in… Read more Spring: A Poem by Holly Ordway
Weeding: A Lenten Poem by Karise Gililland
By Karise Gililland I wrote this poem after being too long delayed by various illnesses- a child’s ongoing strep and… Read more Weeding: A Lenten Poem by Karise Gililland
Blueberry Dreams
Though well into Spring, nature has pranked us here in New England with an April Fool’s Day joke: snow, and… Read more Blueberry Dreams
Negative Capability
It is my pleasure to welcome guest writer Rick Wilcox to All Nine. Rick is a minister of Pastoral Care,… Read more Negative Capability
Candle
Candle By Bethany Rohde “…in India, candle wax was made by boiling the fruit of the cinnamon tree.” — National… Read more Candle
