Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

  "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Phil.4:4-6 (read the whole glorious chapter HERE ) Re...

Happy 82nd Birthday, dear Mom born Nov.1, 1942 (photo credit on this post goes to my sister Marlene) Yesterday, at my mother's annual bi...

I helped to clean out Lucy's gardens yesterday... (photos shared by permission) While we collected flower seeds... ...picked her pears (...

To list all the ways today's poem was inspired, is difficult to encapsulate... But it is a corralling of wonder wakened while pondering ...

How sacredly grief keens awareness  to the preciousness of  what we sometimes call Ordinary. How it stuns us, as we realize  it is Love! and...

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 Thank-you, God, for the toil of rakes, of pruning shears and pe...