From the Quiet Verse – Issue #6 From the Quiet Verse – Issue #6 Date: April 11, 2025 Theme: 🎯 Unsubmitted, Still Becoming A reflection on imperfection, pauses, and the quiet value of unfinished work. 💌 Opening Reflection Dear Reader, In the QuietVerse Digest Issue #2, I talked about submitting a poetry collection for a …
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QuietVerse Digest – Issue #2 QuietVerse Digest – Issue #2 QuietVerse Digest 🧭 Core Poetic & Reflective ✍️ A Quiet Line “Some flowers bloom by accident… But you— you are the blossom we chose.” — from “Chosen” in Leaning Toward Light 🌱 From the Garden “Spring is not a parade. It is a slow forgiveness …
From the Quiet Verse – Issue #5 ✉️ From the Quiet Verse – Issue #5 📅 Date: 14 March 2025 Theme: Turning in the Green 🌿 Subject Line: Between Portents and Petals 💌 Opening Reflection Dear Reader, March is a month of murmurings— of shadows cast long, then slowly retreating. It holds omens and offerings. …
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From the Quiet Verse – Issue #4: The Turn Toward Light ✉️ From the Quiet Verse – Issue #4 Date: 28 February 2025 Title: The Turn Toward Light 🌿 Subject Line: The Quiet Tug 💌 Welcome Letter Dear Reader, There is a strange beauty to late Spring— when snow still clings to the edges, but …
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From the Quiet Verse – Issue #3 ✉️ From the Quiet Verse – Issue #3 📅 Date: 14 February 2025 The Turn Toward Light 🌿 Subject Line Suggestions: A Universe-Written Love Letter When Love Arrives Softly, Like a Whisper For the One Who Stays A Valentine from the Quiet Verse 💌 Opening Reflection Dear Reader, …
QuietVerse Digest Issue #1 QuietVerse Digest Issue #1 Publish Date: 31 January, 2025 🧭 Core Poetic & Reflective Departments ✍️ A Quiet Line “Even unspoken, I burn.” — Secrets from the Quiet Verse 🌱 From the Garden Desire the sweet promise of blossoms drifts over winter’s dregs where the ground thaws the crocus of spring …
From the Quiet Verse – Issue #2 ✉️ From the Quiet Verse – Issue #2 Date: 17 January 2025 Title: The Weight of the Ring Subject Line: The Ring, The Pause, The Possibility 💌 Opening Reflection Dear Reader, Some moments call for fireworks. Others — only a whisper. This past week, I found myself thinking …
Not Empty, Just Quiet: Reflecting on the Power of Silent Poems Not Empty, Just Quiet: Reflecting on the Power of Silent Poems with excerpts from Wisdom of the Quiet Muse There’s a kind of poem that doesn’t demand attention. It doesn’t declare itself with thunder or twist the line into a performance. It pauses. It …
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From the Quiet Verse – Issue #1 From the Quiet Verse – Issue #1 Date: January 3, 2025 Title: Happy New Year This Year, We Begin Softly “Even winter has its own way of beginning.” 💌 Welcome Letter Hello Dear Reader, We begin this year not with noise, but with breath. Not with declarations, but …
Talmut, the poacher, crept up to the unicorn herd. Dead twigs snapped under his foot. He looked up to the spiral horn of a magnificent mauve female a hair’s breadth from his forehead. He had dropped the beasts with his magic arrows before but now he stood frozen in fear. The unicorn smiled. Talmut’s thoughts …