poem – Page 2 – Cox Crow

Woke Up This Morning

Posted on Friday, March 30th, 2018 by Will Cox

Starting the morning with a poem is, oddly, a practice that hadn’t occurred to me until listening to Krista Tippett’s conversation with Naomi Shihab...

General

Everyone Sang

Posted on Saturday, November 11th, 2017 by Will Cox

Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dar...

General

Eraser

Posted on Friday, June 23rd, 2017 by Will Cox

This thing I started to write I’ve lost it I misplaced it somewhere perhaps on a low shelf just out of sight And when I find it again I’ll remember ...

poem

my lover gave me some poems by Billy Collins

Posted on Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 by Will Cox

Oh, Beloved!TheseThese words I must readIn their certain intentSlowly and surely andWith ever the thought of your love

learning/poem

Shoshin (åˆå¿ƒ)

Posted on Saturday, February 7th, 2015 by Will Cox

I started over after not practicing yoga for several months.

family/poem

Recovery

Posted on Saturday, September 27th, 2014 by Will Cox

An unpleasant end to the day,Â smoothed over with silenceÂ and the quiet breathing of sleeping children.Â The morning fog, trees and houses but shadows in the m...

poem

Fall

Posted on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 by Will Cox

Mornings now are quiet.Â The songbirds have taken their song to another.Â A lone rooster crows, off in the distance.The sun slowly rises after I wake.