Listening to the Call
Bob McKetchnieEverywhere we look, every encounter we have, whether with humans or any other part of nature we are being given messages. We often miss those messages! My poems are a reminder to myself to be more attentive and really “see, hear” the world.
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Suddenly the World Is Gold
It happened overnight.
Yesterday
the ferns were green.
This morning
the woods are full of gold—
every fern
lit from within,
the trees beginning
their slow turning,
yellow appearing
where green had been.
I walk farther in.
Under...
The Last Thing We Should Broadcast
There are things a government should
not turn into a show.
A body brought to its final moment.
A life reduced to a sentence,
a sentence reduced to a spectacle,
a spectacle delivered to the waiting world
as if death were something
w...
Only Because You Asked
Okay then,
but only because you asked.”
As if asking
were a small thing.
As if there weren’t
a hundred ways
we could have gone on
without saying it.
You asked
and I stopped
what I was doing.
Not because
I had nothing else to do,...
Discernment
There comes a time
when you realize
you cannot carry everything.
Not every sorrow
that crosses your path.
Not every argument
that asks you to choose a side.
Not every broken thing
waiting for your hands.
The world will keep
placin...
A Season Can Be Beautiful
There are times
when life asks us
to begin again.
Not because
we chose badly.
Sometimes we chose
exactly right.
We gave ourselves
to raising children,
to building a home,
to work that mattered,
to the people
who needed us.
For...
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