Prayer to the Elements [a poem]
ByΒ Cara Amy GoldthorpeΒ |Β Featured Contributor
Protect the soils:Β
soils from whichΒ
new life growsΒ
life to sustain usΒ
with its nourishing bloomsΒ
till we return to the earthΒ
to beginΒ
another cycleΒ
ByΒ Cara Amy GoldthorpeΒ |Β Featured Contributor
Protect the soils:Β
soils from whichΒ
new life growsΒ
life to sustain usΒ
with its nourishing bloomsΒ
till we return to the earthΒ
to beginΒ
another cycleΒ
ByΒ Cara Amy GoldthorpeΒ |Β Featured Contributor
Nothing that I haveΒ
feels like it is mineΒ
anymoreΒ
because we haveΒ
transcended theΒ
time, of materialΒ
wealth;Β
attachment toΒ
possessions, andΒ
physicalΒ
temporaryΒ
things βΒ
By Robert RittelΒ | Featured Contributor
The spiritual quest to explore,
the theory of mind and its score.
Parallels of circumstance,
testing the intellect to advance.
Narratives on individual psychology,
complexity of thought throughout history.
Considerations beyond the bound of tale,
the struggle to survive as soul cannot fail.
Emotional depth of sea that inspire,
trusting matters of the experiences dire.
Epic psychology and its dilemma,
Cyclopes and Hydras forever.
The story of love that waits,
mutual recognition and opening,
the golden gates.
By John Gregory Evans | Featured Contributor
Lying in my upstairs bedroom at home in San Antonio, Texas back in 1999, I was frightfully sick with a terrible flu-related virus. I felt as if I were dying. I laid half asleep and half out of sleep. At this depth of illness, I cared not whether I lived or died. So I simply fell asleep thinking this was it for me. I was forty-five at the time. Life had proved cruel, and all so often we need some type of boost to get us back on track. I felt I was at the end of my rope, both emotionally and mentally, but my writing career was just beginning. Spiritually, I was alive and well, but my body had suffered greatly over the years. I was in very bad shape.
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