Journey Daily with a Compelling Poem
Nature can help soothe many wounds.
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Music and song can be found everywhere.
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Brilliant Amaryllis-red can help brighten the gray of winter.
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The simplest of things can become quite frustrating.
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Our mothers will always be with us.
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Stories can survive years beyond the people who record them.
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Life is a series of conversations.
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Don't be afraid of the wide world!
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Music can be heard everywhere if we would simply listen.
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As children grow up and move away, the change can be painful.
info_outlineMany of us spent a lot of time in our mother's van.
Faith Shearin is the author of five books of poetry: The Owl Question, The Empty House, Moving the Piano, Telling the Bees, and Orpheus Turning. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including the Alaska Quarterly Review and Poetry East, and has been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac. She is the recipient of the May Swenson award and has received awards from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work also appears in The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poets and Good Poems, American Places. She lives in West Virginia.
“My Mother’s Van,” from Darwin’s Daughter (Stephen F. Austin University Press 2018)