Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

Last week love's privileges and duties pressed to the forefront  so much so that poetry needed to take a quiet break.  Part of me softly...

Sharing a few recent moments of kindness today, either as a witness or recipient. On the day before Christmas I popped in at a neighbour, to...

We all know spending time with an agreeable and friendly tot or child  is far more pleasant than to accommodate  a disagreeable, hard-to-ple...

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.  And what does the LORD require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy  and to walk humbly with ...

There's nothing quite like love's heartaches to remind us of the Living Hope found in the Healer of the human heart and rouse reflec...

Are you having a reaching-for or reaching-out a helping hand kind of day?! My challenge in this poem was thoroughly tested as soon as it was...

  Ephesians 4:29 Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,  but only what is helpful for building up the one in need  and bringing gr...

May our lives be rich with the gentle joy of many a kindness both given and received! It may not seem like much, all told; The gentle word, ...

Below, a bit of conversation between my daughter and I as she lamented some not-so-shining-parenting-moments earlier today💓 (my comments in...

We may not, in the grand scheme of things, change the world but we can certainly do our bit!  A reverence for angels that are growing up too...

PAD Challenge day 8 -For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a form poem, and/or... Write an anti-form poem. Form: Shakespearean sonnet Th...

The evils of this world cannot keep kindnesses at bay Then give utmost attention to its Beauty every day And live as if this life was heaven...

  We pour water into a coffee percolator and out comes yummy, black coffee We pour all matter of material into our minds and out come all ma...