Author: Laurel Archer
Love for the Journey
Before we were married, John wrote me a lullaby. It was comforting, soothing, and beautiful. On this Valentine’s Day, to celebrate that gift of love to me and the way we used it over the yea... Read More
Loving questions
Loving Questions Certainty disappears as illusively as now. This moment gone and gone again constantly slipping impossible to hold except with a question – What makes you afraid? How can I help you?... Read More
A love letter
Dear Lower Mainland, It’s complicated, I know. The snow doesn’t play nice. It’s a fair weather friend, (ironically) easily set off, fickle, regular rules don’t apply – the ones the rest of C... Read More
Love Drifts
A love poem for all those who have had it with the snow… Love Drifts I fell in love with snowflakes so large free falling skydivers kaleidoscopes of patterns slowed in motion piled up around me ... Read More
You are welcome!
When everything was still new and overwhelming, you said, ‘Come and learn with us.’ Not just every Thursday at 3:00pm, but, ‘Stay here, we’ll make room. Silakan masuk! Mangga! Please come in... Read More
The Larger Word
Love is the larger word. It can subsume sorrow, dispel indifference, envelope loneliness, shatter hate. But it also settles frustration, loosens tension, softens intensity. Love accepts, yet pat... Read More
Twenty-eight days for love
Welcome to February. Thanks to St. Valentine, February invites us to think about love. February also inspires poets. No, not February (hardly anybody is inspired by February), love inspires poets.... Read More
A Red Kite
A Red Kite It’s a girl! Really? Then it’s Emma. You laid hold of me fiercely Enough like me to believe you’re mine But always only yourself You laid hold of me fiercely Skin to skin, eye to ey... Read More