A poem for St. Patrick’s Day:   S ing of the home that you have never seen, T he place your ancestors once called their own! P lay t...

  A poem for Purim that juxtaposes human intent and God’s:   “P urim” means “lots,” which wicked Haman threw, U nderstanding thus the g...

  A poem for Valentine’s Day:   You are the landscape of my life, The only place I feel at home, The view familiar to my heart, The woods...

  A love poem describing the experience of new love:   You're like music playing in my head Everywhere I go from day to day. I try a d...

  A poem for Holocaust Remembrance Day:   There've been, of course, many holocausts. How come only one gets to be "The"? Eac...

  A poem for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday:   Maybe racial hatred is baked in, A trait evolved through natural selection. Remember...

  A 17 th anniversary poem:   Sing of marriage and of loves that last, Each year again a cause for jubilation, Voices and arms raised in ce...

  A poem for Epiphany about the burden of an epiphany:   E very road is headed for Damascus. P ick any one you like, or randomly. I nten...

  A New Year’s poem about the artificial beauty of the border between one year and the next:   H ow beautiful the turning of the year! A  m...

  A Christmas poem about the benefits of putting reason away for the holiday:   Make time, make time to listen to your heart! Empty out your...

  A calendar poem for December:   December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descend, ...

  A Season’s Greetings poem about how the tilt of the Earth’s axis affects so many aspects of our lives: Sing of the annual cavalcade of sea...

  IT WASN'T OVER WHEN YOU DIED A poem about how child abuse can be passed on through generations:   It wasn't over when you died, W...

  A calendar poem for October:   O ctober is self-confident and strong, C risp and ready for the captious wind. T hough life lies less ahe...

  A name poem for Adelaide about an abused child who grows up with an exaggerated fear of conflict:   A delaide is gracious to a fault, ...

  A psychological poem about unconscious change:   Movement comes most often without motion. Incremental thaws can peel a rock. Years wash...

  A poem about the difficulty of freeing oneself from an addiction:   There is a joy that banishes all reason, An ecstasy so vast it ha...

  An American Independence Day poem about what it might have been like on July 4, 1776:   J ust think of how it was that hot July U nder th...

  A calendar poem for June:   June is promise bent on a reward, Unsparing in his self-inflicted vow, Not knowing that the golden time is n...

  A psychological poem for Mai about how her identity is shaped by her generation:   Mai is well aware she is the future And much depends up...