Brian’sPoems

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A book by Brian J. Mueller

Jonah

365 pieces · in calendar order

January

  1. 1Our Feelings
  2. 2Big Catch
  3. 3Listening?
  4. 4Joy
  5. 5Emptying
  6. 6My Shadow
  7. 7Good Metaphor
  8. 8Not Here
  9. 9Amigos
  10. 10Does...
  11. 11The Real You
  12. 12Heart Spark
  13. 13A Traveling Conversation
  14. 14Laws of Man
  15. 15An Existential Question
  16. 16Sanctuary
  17. 17Wham!
  18. 18Athena
  19. 19Mordita
  20. 20Home
  21. 21Home #2
  22. 22Her Stand
  23. 23The War Within
  24. 24Let Stillness Ask the Questions
  25. 25A Billion Collisions
  26. 26A Thousand Days Off
  27. 27Exiles
  28. 28Lodestone
  29. 29Slow Shutter Camera
  30. 30Stress
  31. 31Lake Erie

February

  1. 1Awe
  2. 2Memories
  3. 3Optimism
  4. 4Back to Forever
  5. 5Through Pain
  6. 6Conspiracies Abound
  7. 7Kerplunk!
  8. 8Sharing
  9. 9Soul Beneath
  10. 10One Atom at a Time
  11. 11A Book Called Being Alive
  12. 12Canine Codependency
  13. 13Poetic Justice
  14. 14Primal Clarity
  15. 15Alcohol
  16. 16Visit Me
  17. 17Obscured Beauty
  18. 18Tension of Opposites
  19. 19A Good Smoke
  20. 20Beer
  21. 21Open
  22. 22The Path
  23. 23Winter Range
  24. 24Better Man
  25. 25The Game
  26. 26Putting It All Together
  27. 27H.a.l.t.
  28. 28Open Mouth

March

  1. 1March Arrives
  2. 2A Simple Prayer
  3. 3My Humanity
  4. 4Keepin' It Real
  5. 5Go Home Early
  6. 6Let's Weep
  7. 7Compulsion
  8. 8Tapestry
  9. 9Infinite Hope
  10. 10Pure Fury
  11. 11My Routine
  12. 12Anywhere
  13. 13Our Evolution
  14. 14Maturing
  15. 15The Invitation
  16. 16You're Welcome
  17. 17Satisfaction
  18. 18Conversion
  19. 19Songbirds
  20. 20Tripped
  21. 21Whatever It Is
  22. 22Behold
  23. 23Suffering
  24. 24Gives Way
  25. 25Sweet Water
  26. 26Ambiguity
  27. 27The Middle
  28. 28Prey
  29. 29Plant Me
  30. 30A Silent Welcome
  31. 31Morning Prayer

April

  1. 1Go Beyond
  2. 2Confronting Anger
  3. 3Let the Music Play
  4. 4Beware
  5. 5People Come and Go
  6. 6Trying
  7. 7Crying
  8. 8One of Those Days
  9. 9Plainspoken Poet
  10. 10Self-Storage
  11. 11Redemption
  12. 12Somewheres & Anywheres
  13. 13Dear Henri
  14. 14Laughter
  15. 15Time on the Road
  16. 16Nature
  17. 17Nothing I Must Do
  18. 18Counterphobic
  19. 19One Thousand
  20. 20Reservoir Man
  21. 21Walnut Hills
  22. 22Dance with You
  23. 23Black Sparrow
  24. 24In This Moment
  25. 25Life on the Road
  26. 26Pangaea
  27. 27Responsibility
  28. 28Sea of Tranquility
  29. 29Reorder
  30. 3030-40-50

May

  1. 1Being Human
  2. 2Read Poetry
  3. 3Perhaps
  4. 4Lunch with an Old Friend
  5. 5No Middle
  6. 6Too Much Talk
  7. 7Follow the River
  8. 8Anything Better
  9. 9Sacred Thresholds
  10. 10A Million Little Things
  11. 11By Leaving
  12. 12Full and Empty
  13. 13Soul Healing
  14. 14Lou
  15. 15Darkness
  16. 16The Satchel
  17. 17Roads
  18. 18Threads of Me
  19. 19Peace of Mind
  20. 20The Art of Letting Go
  21. 21Criticism
  22. 22The Treasure
  23. 23Loopholes
  24. 24Shadow World
  25. 25Detachment
  26. 26Same Questions
  27. 27Inevitability
  28. 28Tell Me Who
  29. 29Freedom
  30. 30Belonging
  31. 31Bullfrog

June

  1. 1If You Must
  2. 2A Humble Spirit
  3. 3Back for Me
  4. 4Go Out Alone
  5. 5The Choir
  6. 6The Price of Kissing
  7. 7For Chuck
  8. 8Before and After
  9. 9Love's Bounty
  10. 10Life and Death
  11. 11Churning
  12. 12Try Listening
  13. 13I Need Your Help
  14. 14The Center
  15. 15A Birthday Wish
  16. 16Cathedral of Creation
  17. 17I See the Creek
  18. 18One Transcendence
  19. 19Good Grief
  20. 20Maybe So
  21. 21Once We Get There
  22. 22What's Your Beef?
  23. 23The Soul's Work
  24. 24See This World
  25. 25Jonah
  26. 26We the Unknown
  27. 27Obligation
  28. 28Courage
  29. 29Poetry
  30. 30In the Blue

July

  1. 1Aniara
  2. 2The Ancients
  3. 3The Shadow Knows
  4. 4War is Hell
  5. 5Gone Native
  6. 6Worry
  7. 7God Knife
  8. 8Causality
  9. 9Fully Alive
  10. 10There Too
  11. 11Final Notes
  12. 12Only Rest
  13. 13God's Being
  14. 14Little Spirits
  15. 15A Break
  16. 16Shadow Boxing
  17. 17Wholehearted
  18. 18Grace
  19. 19Compromise
  20. 20The Grocery
  21. 21What All This Means
  22. 22Enlightenment
  23. 23The Poets
  24. 24Existential Questions
  25. 25Imagination
  26. 26Holding the Line
  27. 27Deep in Love
  28. 28Your Words
  29. 29Come to Silence
  30. 30At the Crossroads
  31. 31Life Misunderstood

August

  1. 1Broken Teeth
  2. 2Old Computer
  3. 3Knock, Knock
  4. 4All They Can
  5. 5I Pour a Drink
  6. 6Who?
  7. 7Gut Check
  8. 8Why I Weep
  9. 9Recognizing Love
  10. 10Dream Home
  11. 11Endless Road of Being
  12. 12There They Are
  13. 13Compromise Corner
  14. 14Easy Answers
  15. 15It's All Here
  16. 16Reincarnation
  17. 17Empty Buildings
  18. 18A Poet's Dilemma
  19. 19My Shadow Self
  20. 20Soul Memories
  21. 21Conversation Starter
  22. 22Grateful Table
  23. 23No Pause, No Peace
  24. 24Memories Come
  25. 25Love Set Free
  26. 26Reluctant Traveler
  27. 27Lake Superior
  28. 28Only Just Forgotten
  29. 29Middle Years
  30. 30Fond du Lac
  31. 31Waiting, Listening, Opening

September

  1. 1Brian's Poem of the Day
  2. 2Bend in the Road
  3. 3Another Circle Theory
  4. 4Good Mechanic
  5. 5All the Rage
  6. 6Third Eye
  7. 7A Cosmic Order
  8. 8At the Temple
  9. 9Yorkshire Terrier
  10. 10Go On
  11. 11Drink
  12. 12Rest Area
  13. 13Water, Bread, Wine
  14. 14Primordial Hunger
  15. 15I Hear God
  16. 16Nothing is Missing
  17. 17My Strange Awakening
  18. 18More Loving
  19. 19I'm Done, Until Tomorrow
  20. 20On the Battlefield
  21. 21Kicking and Bucking
  22. 22The Silence
  23. 23Shadows
  24. 24Morning Poet
  25. 25Love 360°
  26. 26Uncertainty
  27. 27A Little Stink
  28. 28Catholic Kid
  29. 29Here Ya Go
  30. 30Rise Cautiously

October

  1. 1Awaken Warrior
  2. 2Personal Evolution
  3. 3Stepping
  4. 4Toxic Masculinity
  5. 5Quiet Mind
  6. 6Unbinding Prayer
  7. 7Testament
  8. 8Salt
  9. 9Unfinished
  10. 10Consciousness
  11. 11Still at War
  12. 12Fire Goes
  13. 13Elemental Innocence
  14. 14Straight Lines
  15. 15Humble Being
  16. 16Music of Being
  17. 17Jittery
  18. 18Good Vibrations
  19. 19Resurrection
  20. 20Much Closer
  21. 21More Than Human
  22. 22A Humbling Gratitude
  23. 23Acceptance
  24. 24Stir My Soul
  25. 25Something Opens
  26. 26Shadow Work
  27. 27The Invitation
  28. 28The Merge
  29. 29Answers
  30. 30Silence
  31. 31Mystical Journey

November

  1. 1Your Poetry
  2. 2Soulful Pilgrim
  3. 3The Soup
  4. 4Everything I Need
  5. 5Will to Live
  6. 6There is Joy
  7. 7Transformation
  8. 8Peace Pilgrim
  9. 9Across Forever
  10. 10Troubles
  11. 11Heavy Truths
  12. 12To Be Created
  13. 13My Breath
  14. 14In Movement
  15. 15Two Doors
  16. 16Autumn
  17. 17Say It Better
  18. 18Floating
  19. 19My Heart at Peace
  20. 20No Judgment
  21. 21First Death
  22. 22Embodied Love
  23. 23Body & Soul
  24. 24Peace Within
  25. 25Pitter-Patter
  26. 26Becoming
  27. 27Beyond the Sea
  28. 28Awake, My Soul
  29. 29Prayers
  30. 30Finding My Ground

December

  1. 1Become Poem
  2. 2New Awareness
  3. 3The Story
  4. 4Flowers in the Winter
  5. 5Favorite Poem
  6. 6The Narrowing
  7. 7Digital Dysphoria
  8. 8Acceptance
  9. 9Simple Man
  10. 10Down to the River
  11. 11Simple Gifts
  12. 12Love Is Right Here
  13. 13No Further Than My Nose
  14. 14Relax
  15. 15He Can Be Taught
  16. 16Heartbeat
  17. 17My Patient Companion
  18. 18My Body
  19. 19Enlightenment
  20. 20Just a Gambol
  21. 21Winter Solstice
  22. 22Project Happy Days
  23. 23Giants
  24. 24All One
  25. 25Christmas Arrives
  26. 26Sacred Heart
  27. 27No Reason
  28. 28For Some Reason
  29. 29Sacred Space
  30. 30Passion
  31. 31Eyes of God