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T. Thorn Coyle
Jun 28, 2019
What is Pride?
What is pride: When Black women are killed on the street? When trans women die in concentration camps? When indigenous women and girls...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Dec 4, 2018
In Memoriam: A Poem
for George H.W. Bush, written December, 2018 In Memoriam, Part I Even though I know The government is ––And always has been–– Filled with...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Aug 1, 2018
August
image by Candiix/Pixabay Tailtiu cleared the plains So crops would grow. She died, exhausted from her labor. But the land flourished, and...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Aug 15, 2017
From Safer Shores…
From safer shores we watch the torch’s flame America, your grace was ever fraught. Founded on blood and genocide and greed. America,...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Jan 31, 2014
The Calling
When you stand before the fire There shall be no more weeping. The trees shall whisper and wind shall moan: Your fate is in your hands....
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T. Thorn Coyle
Mar 29, 2012
On the Passing of the Poet
.“When does a life bend towards freedom? grasp its direction? How do you know you’re not circling in pale dreams,...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Feb 29, 2012
Holding Beloved Community – part 4
I received the following poem two days ago from a man I’ve never met who reads my blog, and got permission to pass it along. It feels...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Nov 17, 2011
Shall We Dance?
I dreamt last night of waltzing As a civil disobedience. Hundreds of us moving ‘til our skins bumped into sweat. And still we swung...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Mar 9, 2011
Courting Meditation
Green hummingbird At geometric dance Before high window. Laughter of delight Penetrates still meditation. Thank you, brother bird....
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T. Thorn Coyle
Feb 1, 2011
The Meeting of Fjölnir’s Parents
Her stature was a breathtaking Thing to behold. She towered in her beauty, Face turned toward me… A giant among women and Gods. What...
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T. Thorn Coyle
Feb 1, 2011
Kindling
To You. Above the white city On winking green hillside, I offered up my life… Not realizing in that moment, that I took it for myself....
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T. Thorn Coyle
Jun 4, 2010
Gnosis
Knowledge How does one speak Of the crossing of that Chasm of Birth and Knowing When we think of it as Death, And Death it is, yet...
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