Poems For These Times
Reaching Down into the Center
I’ve been saving the poem below for my penultimate e-post of these Resources for Recovering Resilience. The wrap-up e-post will be sent July 13 after teaching my very last ever […]
Deep Listening under All War and Catastrophe
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a startling escalation of Russian ambitions to seize Ukrainian territory that began a decade before. Because […]
Poetic Reflections on Retirement
The unfolding of my life has always been held and reflected in the deep wisdom of poetry. From John O’Donohue’s For a New Beginning when I first had an inkling […]
If I Had Known…I Would Have….
[Note: These Resources for Recovering Resilience will now post weekly in 2023, on Thursdays; always archived on my website.] If I had known to post the poems below to mark […]
A Wise Blessing for the New Year
This year’s new year’s blessing comes from Larry Robinson, a wonderful poet and stalwart supporter of other poets. His poem holds the many contractions and heartaches of our world with […]
Mid-Winter Sustenance
I wrote this poem as I was on the brink of launching my first website, almost 20 years ago! Celebrating the deep friendships sustaining me then; that continue to sustain […]
A Winter Solstice Prayer
A friend sent me the full quote of Albert Camus’s well-known …in the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer…” I looked it up in […]
Poem Bathing
Poem Bathing by Gail Onion Poem bathing.An hour spent reading favorite poetry.Sometimes there is ecstasy, a respite from care, sometimes reassurance that the world has meaningthere is wonder and aweand how to find peace […]
Gratitude: We Are Participant and Witness All at Once
I have found no more resonant reflection on the true meanings of gratitude for this [U.S.] Thanksgiving Day than this excerpt from the poet David Whyte’s Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, […]
Fury and Faith – A Poem for These Times
Someone shared Amanda Gorman’s poem Fury and Faith at our recent Gourmet Poets Society gathering. These words in these times of rapid social and political turmoil remind us: “whether we […]