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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: poetry

Poetry to Save a Planet in Peril

July 19, 2026

With all the wildfires, floods, and extreme heat waves going on, it seems the climate catastrophe we heard was coming …

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Two Poems about Love & Coming Home

June 25, 2026

Love After Love by Derek Walcott The time will comewhen, with elationyou will greet yourself arrivingat your own door, in …

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Days After the World Was Supposed to End

April 9, 2026

After these nail-biting days in which the President of the United States, on Easter Day, threatened to end the world …

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Heat & Heart, 5 Valentines for Lovers

February 14, 2026

1. I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around …

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Risking Delight in a World Gone Awry

January 25, 2026

“We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the …

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When Every Cell Becomes a Miracle – Dancing on Ecstatic Toes

December 14, 2025

I’ve always loved Walt Whitman’s way of turning the mundane into a miracle, or seeing what’s marvelous in the everyday. …

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Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems

December 7, 2025

Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …

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Feeling the Flow, from Mountain-Top to Marketplace

November 10, 2025

Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …

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Prose Poem: 13 Ways of Looking at Dying

October 19, 2025

October is the month I was born and the month my mother died. Sweetness and sadness rolled into one. It …

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“I See You But Do You See Me?” Poem & Paintings

September 1, 2025

We’ve all seen the headlines, how the homeless are being harassed, their tents and belongings bulldozed away, being told to …

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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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