It is not a cozy, pious poetry. Thomas is often called the “poet of the hidden God.” Poem after poem finds him kneeling in a dark empty church, waiting for a God who refuses to appear or speak. “To ...

Waiting on God is not easy but it can be successful if we do it right. We must wait with COURAGE, not trepidation and fear. “Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine ...

waiting on you to die so i can be myself. By Danez Smith. a thousand years of daughters, then me. what else could i have learned to be? girl after girl after giving herself to herself one long ...

The poem puts her emotions into perspective and helps her process the horror. Zoe’s mother Dawn Karels spent Monday worrying, waiting and then finally reuniting with her daughter.

Tracy K. Smith is the author of three collections of poetry: "Life on Mars" (Graywolf Press, 2011); Duende (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American ...

Waiting on God! - A great deal is said in the Bible about waiting for God. The lesson cannot be too strongly enforced. We easily grow impatient of God's delays. Much of our trouble in life comes ...

During the last week of National Poetry Month in 2014, we featured snippets of Times articles you can use to create and share your own short poems. To begin, select an article and click on up to ...

waiting hands. Cream-colored, fragile, soft as milkweed, a wordless message from beyond, reminding me, how like the feather, we’re carried on the breath of God. This poem appears in the January 26, ...

Capturing the despair of starving South Africans, Athol Williams ends his poem: “Daily they come, for who can stand the agony of hunger, to queue in the street, from one o’clock for a meal at ...

Poet Tracy K. Smith's three favorite poems of 2011 blur the private and public, the personal and political, and will refresh how you look at language and the world.