Category Archives: experience

Dēmokratía

Posted on 22 November, 2019 by PoetJanstie

Have you ever felt the mocking tone of those who disagree with common sense whose point of view bears truly little weight. To deny understanding. Socratic debate. For whom jocular bullying is their choice of stick to avoid a dialectic … Continue reading →

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The Secrets of Life

Posted on 21 January, 2013 by PoetJanstie

The riptide pulled and weighed us down, swimming in our shoals. It bent us in our will to win, oh weary, sorry souls. Oh tiresome, terrifying days when scholars moved to preach that all of Christendom was ours, but always … Continue reading →

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Posted in Ballad, experience, family, Fear, Heroes, Hope, Love, poem, poetry, wisdom | 38 Comments

Looking South

Posted on 27 September, 2011 by PoetJanstie

If you stand in the wind and allow it to bend you so you flex and withstand it, don’t let it uproot you, then you’ll find it can’t hurt you in spite of extraordinary pain. If your instinct for flight … Continue reading →

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Message from Mother Earth

Posted on 15 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

I woke to feel no breath, as if at birth, so I could hear the breath of mother earth. She heaves with sighs of lives foregone, reminding us we need to change our song, review the wiles of new invented … Continue reading →

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Real Heroes

Posted on 5 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(the plastic coated deceit of 20th/21st century life) Who are the real heroes and people of true courage? Find out in this blog post… … and in this poem.

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Ninety Two

Posted on 17 March, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(First Draft) There is one I know (though there are some, when they are ninety-two, are good as done), but she is good for another ninety-two, refusing the acknowledgement of age; denying understandable excuses; rejecting even a hint so to … Continue reading →

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