by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 6, 2011 | Poetry
I cleaned out our desk over the holiday weekend (doesn’t it feel fabulous to throw stuff away?!?) and came across a folder of my poetry all the way back to freshman year in college. Some of it made me cringe, but it’s not all bad. I thought I’d share...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 16, 2011 | Poetry
I’ve pretty much always liked writing. Even before I knew how to write, I would scrounge sheets of paper to fill with line after line of squiggles that looked like writing to me. But in other ways, my tastes have definitely changed. This past weekend my husband...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 8, 2011 | Miracles, Poetry, Reading
Another poem in honor of National Poetry Month. If I had to pick a favorite poem, this might be it. There are quite a few I really love, but this one is the quintessence of poetry. Good poetry usually makes me want to sit down and write–this poem makes me want...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 8, 2011 | Poetry, Reading
Have you ever read a book or watched a movie or tried a new restaurant that friends raved about and said you would just love? And you just didn’t? I attended a poetry lecture a while back. It was by a writer I like and he was using poems by one of my all time...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 1, 2010 | Poetry
QUAKER LADIES I once read something about how the meek would inherit the earth and it must be true—only look. Every child knows the bright names of Daisy and Buttercup sunning themselves in mountain meadows. Black-eyed Susan winks and waves. But here, in grown over...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 29, 2010 | Poetry
On page 2 of my copy of Longfellow’s Poems, copyrighted 1883 and presented to Carlotta Ratts on Christmas 1886, is the poem “A Psalm of Life.” I love to “adopt” used books. And if they are particularly beautiful books that have been...
