Anne: The Purple Finch* A Free Verse Poem on Loss and Longing Anne, your body like a purple finch perched on the hemlock’s last bare branch— mid-winter, here in our cold north— your eyes bright as the berry she weighs in her beak, uncertain if this chill is the final freeze, or if warmth lingers..
We need beauty because it makes us yearn to be worthy of it. -Mary Oliver INVITATION by Mary Oliver Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistles for a musical battle, to..
We need beauty because it makes us yearn to be worthy of it. -Mary Oliver Posted here is just one example of the brilliant photography of Lorne Coughlin, the inspiration for this modest poem. Ruby throated hummingbird with dahlia: A Tanka poem A hovering pause, A dazzling floral stopover, Beauty in stasis,..