Whispers of the Soul: New and Selected Poems

WHISPERS OF THE SOUL

...SOMETIMES GENTLE

...SOMETIMES FIERCE

A collection of poems that range from expressions of gratitude for the gifts of nature, to musings about aging and the fragility of life, to insights about women's issues and concerns, to observations about the complexities of family dynamics, to reflections about writing and therapy.

Table of Contents

Spindrift

Leftovers

Two Sides

An Old Story

Therapy?

For Elizabeth

A Lesson Learned

Sunday Morning Song at a Small Chapel

The Interview

"Does it Still Bother You?" He Asks

A Morning in Arizona

Neglecting the Feminine

Or Else

Options

A Day

Why

Early Morning

Kindness

Two Daughters

Enough?

A Woman's Way

Turning Fifty

Living with Breast Cancer

A Cautionary Tale

A Young Boy

A New Year

A Dream of Becoming

Age Spots

For Linda

Easter

Ordinary Time

Drawing a Rune: Protection Reversed

The New Year

Cold

The Search

The Patriarchy

Dream Words

Me and the Grands

Warnings

What Will It Take?

Violation, According to Margeaux

Words

A Gathering of Women

Little Deaths

They Call it Transference

Flattened

Choices

A Little Too Close

How Many?

Full

Speaking of Fairy Godmothers

Reasonable Limits

Soul Play

An Inner Guide

The Cancer of Silence

Getting a Mammogram

Writing

A Woman of the Patriarchy

Wording the Process

December

The Seduction of Order

Green for Healing

The Web

Rich

The Journey