Minimalist
Understated, confident and contained. Less is more. Here are some poems.
8 poems
Book of Genesisby Kei Miller, b. 1978“Until even silent dreams had been allowed”
Epiphanyby Sophie Strand, contemporary“My heart was made to be split open, like the milkweed pod, and scattered”
Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 ~ 2001“The only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom”
Habitationby Margaret Atwood, b. 1939“With wonder at having survived this far, we are learning to make fire”
Loveby "Roy Croft" (disputed attribution)“You are helping me to make out of the lumber of my life, not a tavern, but a temple”
Most like an archby John Ciardi, 1916 ~ 1978“All I do at piling stone on stone apart from you is roofless around nothing”
Mysteries, yesby Mary Oliver, 1935 ~ 2019“Let me keep company, always, with those who say 'look' and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads.”
We are youngby J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892 ~ 1973“We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”