Yoga Class, the Teacher Speaks. Wednesday, December 27, 2006. Hold our hands open as cups. My lips form familiar words. But I am not speaking. It is the mother who is speaking. I am riding on the dark resonance. That is not my voice. I listen as she speaks. She is telling us now. To come touch each other. I feel other hands move warm into mine. I glance at the clock. We have one human hour.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006. Some of them only for weeks,. And years, enough so. I thought the whole world. And then when they left. What more can I say? For more poems about relationship, click on the links to the right. Poetry Immersion Classes with Joan Dobbie. Some Thoughts and How to on Poetry Writing.

Saturday, December 16, 2006. Poems with a wider lens. Links to the right will connect with poems that express some things maybe spiritual, or at least beyond day to day experience. Poetry Immersion Classes with Joan Dobbie. Some Thoughts and How to on Poetry Writing. Live Each Day as If. Yoga Class, the Teacher Speaks. Love Song to a Dead Kitten.

Poems that deal with inner turmoil. Sometimes poetry is a good form of therapy. These poems came out of an attempt to heal by facing inner demons. Poems that focus on Psychological stuff. Poetry Immersion Classes with Joan Dobbie. Some Thoughts and How to on Poetry Writing. What I Learned One Day in Hell.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007. But then felt it move. This poem appeared in my graduate thesis, 1988. Poems that focus on Psychological stuff. Poetry Immersion Classes with Joan Dobbie. Some Thoughts and How to on Poetry Writing.

Thursday, January 3, 2008. As if it were your last. If you live each day. As if it were your last. Poetry Immersion Classes with Joan Dobbie. Some Thoughts and How to on Poetry Writing. Live Each Day as If. Yoga Class, the Teacher Speaks. Love Song to a Dead Kitten.

Love Song to a Dead Kitten. Thursday, March 15, 2007. This poem appeared in Elegant Stew, 1983. Poetry Immersion Classes with Joan Dobbie. Some Thoughts and How to on Poetry Writing. Yoga Class, the Teacher Speaks. Love Song to a Dead Kitten.

Sunday, December 17, 2006. Photo by Joan Dobbie 2007. The thing to do, I guess,. Though it comes and goes. This poem appeared on a Christmas Card published by Chuck Eyers in 2003. Poetry Immersion Classes with Joan Dobbie. Some Thoughts and How to on Poetry Writing. Live Each Day as If. Yoga Class, the Teacher Speaks. Love Song to a Dead Kitten.