Can’t find a poem for this

Posted on October 12, 2021 by stephen t berg / 8 Comments

Yesterday, among the thousands of daily aggressions across our convulsing continent, a mother and her child was chased by a sign-carrying woman, who was shoutin...

A Grief Observed

Posted on September 29, 2021 by stephen t berg / 14 Comments

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” – C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed. When I c...

Light/Prayer/Spirit

Believer

Posted on September 19, 2021 by stephen t berg / 24 Comments

I wake at four and walk outside in the dark, in the silence of my slippers on gravel, my blue and white housecoat.I shoo away anything that isn’t sleeping,whi...

Heart, Soul/Hope

Restoration Ode

Posted on September 5, 2021 by stephen t berg / 12 Comments

Our souls, dear child, have grown scornful, our hearts are fastened on Wall Street, and our minds, fractious, intemperate, are furious with any headline we di...