A Halloween poem about horror as part of our nature:   Horror is a color in our rainbow, A chimerical, spectral inner arc of black. ...

An Epitaph for a Social Activist   Death came to me while I was at a meeting, Opened up my chest and wandered in. Nor did it leave unt...

  Adapted from The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples   Indigenous peoples have the collective right To li...

  A poem for Yom Kippur about the need to atone for what you failed to do as much as for what you did :   Yes, there is a lot one need a...

  A poem for Rosh Hashanah comparing remorse to shame : Remorse is not a synonym for shame. One is mainly outer; the other, inner. S...

  A 70 th birthday poem of celebration for the gifts of life:   S ing for all the years you have been granted, E ach blessing sing, ea...

  A poem about a moment of silent communication between the poet and a racoon: The night my heart stopped I was sleeping with my wife In a t...