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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Poetry

Once Upon a Time in America, Two Poems

November 18, 2024

At a time when we are all striving toward some optimism because the future looks so dark, I almost hate …

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I Know Nothing But Miracles

October 28, 2024

Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle?As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether …

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On Herds, Husbands & Being in Love

September 29, 2024

Serendipity, it’s sometimes called. Those happy coincidences that lead to some unexpected pleasure or insight. Or synchronicity. Those meaningful encounters …

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Balancing Ourselves in Broken World, Art and Poetry for Troubled Times

September 16, 2024

How do we balance ourselves in a broken world with wars still waging in Ukraine and Gaza, and the bitter …

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Parenting Advice from The Prophet

May 5, 2024

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you …

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Photos & Poetry to Celebrate Earth Day

April 22, 2024

From “The Shape of Fire” by Theodore Roethke To have the whole air!—The light, the full sunComing down on the …

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Travelers on a Cosmic Journey

March 25, 2024

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies andwhirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal.We have …

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Joy Not Shared, Dies Young

March 11, 2024

A lovely reminder from Anne Sexton to share our joys–the simple pleasures of life. So I’m sharing with you her …

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A Kind of Love: How the Cup Holds Tea

January 23, 2024

I’ve been thinking about this poem ever since I found it on The Vale of the Soul-Making. The way ordinary …

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Blessings–For the Ear, For the Eye, & For You

November 20, 2023

Can’t you hear the laughter of the children, the slap of running feet, the rush and tumble of the waves? …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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