Love, Words & Poetry

I detail moments of grace, whether early roses, love letters on how to give more abundantly to others, or end-of-season gardens. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Poems bookend this podcast, with a foray into paint colors, and love letters on poetry, too! May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My newest poem is a reflection on a verse from Ephesians that sees us as being built into a temple for the Spirit. I use two lines from the poem to provide our phrase of the week. Our love letters ponder how we can make each other first in our lives. And I close with a short poem dedicated to Emily Dickinson, which has a slight echo of her inimitable voice. May words add more love and poetry to yo...

Starting with a poetic reflection on marriage in Genesis and a look at "the serpent," our love letters show how dialogue can inform decisions, and end with a joyful poem celebrating marriage. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My poems reflect on crossing the border into fall, and our love letters focus on all that we have gained through daily dialogue May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I introduce a roller skating nun who enlivened third grade for me, share our love letters on praying together, and welcome a hummingbird I met on an early morning walk who brought the dawn. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two poems about love and hope, and our love letters sharing how we want to change for the sake of the other. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem echoing Emily Dickinson, commentary on two Greek goddesses, love letters on what makes us united, and a final poem inspired by the story of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I am reading one poem this week in two very different versions--the firs was written when I was a sophomore in high school wrestling with Chemistry. The most recent was revised this past June. The poem deals with the pressure of time and our love letters look at how we help each other cope with all kinds of pressure. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two poems--one from our days in New Jersey, when we first began to dialogue on deep feelings, and the other from our move to Northern California when I discovered how different the climate and geography were and how profoundly the differences affected me. In between, I read our letters on how dialogue was changing us. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My poem looks at all the things that can distract me when I try to ponder abundance, and our love letters speak about what can distract us from each other. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We're taking a summer romp in the garden, with a poem on the longest day in my garden, and a reference to Monet's gardens at Giverny, followed by a couple of longer love letters where Wes and I celebrate our love and look at ways to make it even better. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Creation fills the poem of the week, and marriage in the modern world is the subject of our love letters, as we ponder ways we are pulled apart in spite of wanting to grow closer. This elucidates love as, not a feeling, but a decision we have to make over and over again if we want our love to keep growing and deepening. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with an ode to a hummingbird breaking open the dawn, read our love letters on what we appreciate in ourselves, the other, and our coupleness. Then I read a brand new poem, maybe not even finished, just for the sheer exhilaration of it. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Our poems focus on falling in love in high school, and moving toward marriage in college. The love letters look at areas of our relationship where we needed to listen to each other more deeply, with our hearts. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poetic domestic scene and include love letters that look at how we are called to make each other first, and how our work and parenting impact our marriage. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I begin with a prize-winning poem and a word of the day that reveals an unknown challenge to change. In our love letters, we were challenged to make some changes in our relationship which ultimately led to greater closeness in both the way we listened to each other and how we spent our time. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The poem of the day is a lighthearted description of energetic embodiment along with a more serious set of love letters where we confront areas where we have fallen into a "married singles" lifestyle and face the need to make daily decisions to love and grow closer. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a lighthearted poem about raccoons in my back yard, then define scofflaw, a term I use pejoratively about those masked robbers, and read our love letters, as we looked at ways we could be more single-hearted in our love for each other.  Because the poem is a long one, I read it once more to end the podcast. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I share two poems with titles in French, their meanings, and the first love letters Wes and I shared on our Deeper Training Weekend as we were preparing to become a presenting Team for World Wide Marriage Encounter. We learned to become more vulnerable with each other, and that vulnerability drew us closer to each other. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The opening poem describes a Lenten concert in which I was asked to play almost at the last minute, which was a glorious experience. Our love letters looked at how we felt when we were chosen to be a presenting Team Couple for Marriage Encounter. The closing poem celebrates a panorama of spring on March 19, St. Joseph's Day. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We have a "Bacchanale" among the animals to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and a reflection on what amazes us about our marriage.   May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Both poems that bookend this podcast focus on music, and our love letters celebrate the new dimensions we experience in non-verbal communication. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I had positive feedback from reading one poem twice last week, so I will be sharing a longer poem at the beginning and ending of this podcast. The poem is wrestling with the depths of grief, and our love letters are looking at how we learned to understand each other's feelings at a deeper level. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

A prize-winning poem on weaving elucidates life, and our love letters reveal new depths of understanding.   To read the poem and see the photograph of a weaver in Ireland who inspired the poem, go to www.greenvisionsgreetings.com Look at the Gallery, and click on Poetry Cards, and look for "The Weaver." May words add more love and poetry to your days!