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Longtime seeker for home and belonging. Gradually finding it here, here in the Earth and on the inward path that reveals that I never left home to begin with.

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Pray with your feet

March 1 2026- March to End Family Detention- San Antonio, TX

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Pray with your feet. 
Let your feet kiss the ground
bringing you closer to all who’...
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A question I ask myself

Cicada nymph exoskeleton - Andy Smith

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Are you as afraid, 
as the cicada is brave,
to let life split you open?
Your becoming wants to...
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Just can't wait

Andy Smith- July 7 2025

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One day you realize that you just can't 
wait around any longer

you can't wait for the right place,
for the rig...
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Why the wait?

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I noticed it forming just the other day— 
barely a half-inch poke in the air

right where I thought...
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Upon learning that frogs listen with their whole bodies

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Tonight down by the creek, 
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or maybe just singing in a m...
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  • Andy Smith

    Longtime seeker for home and belonging. Gradually finding it in the Earth and on the inward path that reveals that I never left home to begin with.

  • Poetry Outdoors

    A writing community devoted to restoring our relationship with the natural world through poetry, storytelling, and environmental stewardship.

  • Ryan McCarty

    Teacher and parent and writer and other things.

  • adriana

    i currently live and write in ausin, texas. i take notes on the everyday. i try to be facing in the direction of the surprise. and here i am

  • Linda Meg Frith

    I am a mother, a sister, writer, a friend, a truth-seeker, animal lover, retired social worker/therapist, and amateur philosopher. Notice what comes first. I write to learn what I really think.

  • Laura Catanzano

    Wife. Mother. Poet. Inspired by life's delicate spirals. The light in me, sees the light in you.

  • Ashley

    I am your next-door-neighbor type of girl who loves Jesus, my hubby, and coffee:-)

  • Sue Banerji

    Welcome! This is where dreams float and stars sing me lullaby! A healthcare professional believing that readers and writers have a symbiotic relationship! "Be kind. You never know where and how you will end up." Me.

  • PD Hurt

    My poetry reads like the teenage me shoulder tapping at the laundry mat, hoping to get a bottle at the liquor store. -PD Hurt

  • Kristi L. Griffin

    Mother. Writer. Maternal mental health advocate.

  • Sara Joy Tiberio

    Poet + Photographer + Cellist. I find meaning in small details of nature and peace paddling on water. My dogs are my heart floating outside my body. I think we have a lot to learn from trees.

  • Betsy Johnson, M.Ed.

    Writer, poet, autism specialist, and educator, working at the intersection of disability justice, advocacy, and creative practice. My poem "The Mathematics of Mercy" read on the floor of the House of Representatives. https://tinyurl.com/mryuj9c3

  • Kate Dyer

    I am a queer writer from coastal Maine. I strive for my poetry to be a lantern guiding all the ghosts, holy or not, on the pathway home.

  • David Linebarger

    Poetry and Prose. My latest book, Tennis Players as Works of Art, was both a Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner (2026) and an IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year (2025). My current project is a series of lyrical love letters to my daughters.

  • Rae McMinn

    I'm newly a poet, plus a mother and L&D nurse in Portland, Oregon. I'm writing poetry about time and change and standing in the doorway, taking it in.

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