poem – Alison Leigh Lilly

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Dear Editor: A Poem in Four Tweets

July 13, 2017September 23, 2019 Alison Leigh Lilly

Dear Editor,
Are you okay?
I only ask because
your selections of late
have gone rather grim.
Not an ode to joy
among them,
not one kiss.

Contemplation & Meditation, Holy Wild, Poetry & Music

Another

March 29, 2017September 23, 2019 Alison Leigh Lilly

Crow in a birch tree shakes rain from its wings...

Current Events, Holy Wild, peace, Poetry & Music

#WritersResist: Bring the Fire Down

January 15, 2017September 23, 2019 Alison Leigh Lilly

Move. Between justice and mercy, between nakedness and warfare, between all that you would not do and all you have done, unknowing...

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The Wrong Kind of Poem

March 17, 2014September 23, 2019 Alison Leigh Lilly

Today is the five year anniversary of my first date with Jeff, and the two-and-a-half year anniversary of our wedding. (Which means that, from this day forward, we'll have been married longer than we dated. Weird!) Recently I was looking back through old journal entries, when I found this poem that I wrote back in March 2010, one year after we'd met. As the French say, Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose... Happy anniversary, love!