Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.
For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.
One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about