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Saturday Poetry – ‘Come Let Us Be Friends’ Sarah Lee Brown
Saturday Poetry – ‘Come Let Us Be Friends’ Sarah Lee Brown This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ”Come Let Us Be Friends’ Sarah Lee Brown. “Come Let Us Be Friends” appears in Sarah Lee Brown Fleming’s poetry collection Clouds and Sunshine (The Cornhill Company, 1920). In Afro-American Women Writers, 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide (G.K. Hall, 1988), American journalist, editor, and associate librarian Ann Allen Shockley remarks that Fleming “has been unnoticed as an early novelist and poet of the twentieth century. Her books were not mentioned in Jet’s brief historical capsule about her. She is remembered more for her social and civic contributions than…
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Saturday Poetry – ‘And You . . .’ by Jason Allen-Paisant
Saturday Poetry – ‘And You . . .’ by Jason Allen-Paisant This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘And You’ . . . by Jason Allen-Paisant. He is the author of The Possibility of Tenderness (Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025), Engagements with Aimé Césaire (Oxford University Press, 2024), and Self-Portrait as Othello(Carcanet Press, 2023). About this poem “My wife and I had just moved to Leeds, a city neither of us knew. This event happened in the woods one day. I was unaware until then of my deep loneliness in this city. I don’t fully understand why, but this feeling of loneliness upon coming to live in a new…
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Saturday Poetry – ‘Let’s love each other’ by Jalal al-Din Rumi
This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled is ‘Let’s love each other’ by Jalal al-Din Rumi. For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Jalal al-Din Rumi’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @rosiekimages with the captivating artwork complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions. To view the others we have published in this section, go here. via Poets.org Saturday Poetry – ‘Let’s love each other’ by Jalal al-Din Rumi Let’s love each other, let’s cherish each other, my friend, before we lose each other. You’ll long for me when I’m gone. You’ll make a truce with me. So why put…
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Saturday Poetry – Wild Beauty by Jessica Care Moore
Saturday Poetry – Wild Beauty by Jessica Care Moore This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Wild Beauty’ by Jessica Care Moore. She is the author of several poetry collections, including We Want Our Bodies Back (HarperCollins, 2020), The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto (Moore Black Press, 2003), and The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth (Moore Black Press, 1997). Moore explained “I wrote the poem, ‘Wild Beauty,’ in the middle of the night. I was balancing heartbreak, isolation, friendship, and a longing for true love. I’d been reading a lot of Sylvia Plath and experimenting with the sound of my poems. They changed during the pandemic. I…
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Saturday Poetry – ‘Little Things’ by Marion Strobel
Saturday Poetry – ‘Little Things’ by Marion Strobel This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Little Things’ by Marion Strobel. “Little Things” originally appeared inPoetry: A Magazine of Verse (Volume XVII, Number V) in February 1921. For the September 1925 issue, founding editor Harriet Monroe observed several women poets and noted, “The women poets of our time, in short, have been content to be women; and in thus accepting their destiny they have invaded a field comparatively open to their advance.” Monroe goes on to review Strobel’s first book, stating, “Once in a Blue Moon, gives us the modern girl, the modern young woman—the various rainbow colors…
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The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 15 October 2023
The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 15 October 2023 Our mobile photography and art community never ceases to amaze us with your incredible talent and creativity. This week, we have been blown away by the submissions to TheAppWhisperer, which showcases the very best in mobile photography and digital art. From stunning landscapes to intimate portraits, the photos and artwork featured on the site this week are a testament to the versatility and power of mobile devices as tools for creative expression. Each image tells a unique story, capturing a moment in time or conveying a particular emotion or mood. Whether capturing the beauty of the natural world…
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The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 26 November 2023
The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 26 November 2023 Our mobile photography and art community never ceases to amaze us with your incredible talent and creativity. This week, we have been blown away by the submissions to TheAppWhisperer, which showcases the very best in mobile photography and digital art. From stunning landscapes to intimate portraits, the photos and artwork featured on the site this week are a testament to the versatility and power of mobile devices as tools for creative expression. Each image tells a unique story, capturing a moment in time or conveying a particular emotion or mood. Whether capturing the beauty of the natural world…
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The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 17 September 2023
The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase –17 September 2023 Our mobile photography and art community never ceases to amaze us with your incredible talent and creativity. This week, we have been blown away by the submissions to TheAppWhisperer, which showcases the very best in mobile photography and digital art. From stunning landscapes to intimate portraits, the photos and artwork featured on the site this week are a testament to the versatility and power of mobile devices as tools for creative expression. Each image tells a unique story, capturing a moment in time or conveying a particular emotion or mood. Whether capturing the beauty of the natural world or…
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The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 3 September 2023
The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 3 September 2023 Our mobile photography and art community never ceases to amaze us with your incredible talent and creativity. This week, we have been blown away by the submissions to TheAppWhisperer, which showcases the very best in mobile photography and digital art. From stunning landscapes to intimate portraits, the photos and artwork featured on the site this week are a testament to the versatility and power of mobile devices as tools for creative expression. Each image tells a unique story, capturing a moment in time or conveying a particular emotion or mood. Whether capturing the beauty of the natural world…
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The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 20 August 2023
The Greatest Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 20 August 2023 Our mobile photography and art community never ceases to amaze us with your incredible talent and creativity. This week, we have been blown away by the submissions to TheAppWhisperer, which showcases the very best in mobile photography and digital art. From stunning landscapes to intimate portraits, the photos and artwork featured on the site this week are a testament to the versatility and power of mobile devices as tools for creative expression. Each image tells a unique story, capturing a moment in time or conveying a particular emotion or mood. Whether capturing the beauty of the natural world…