Mj Pettengill

In the end, what haunted her in her youth had become what she lived for.

What was lost may be gone forever, but you can seek and create a new world in the space left behind.

The ships stayed in port, not intended for the ravenous folk with empty bellies and rattlin’ bones—

Yes, the shadows are menacing, but we are equipped to find our way.

I am inspired by others' offerings. This particular poem is deeply moving. The love for mother brought about tears. Reaching into the...

We do not witness the atrocities connected to most of what we consume in our daily lives.

I must be ready to step into the truth. It is time to roll up my sleeves and be prepared to make my way through years of blood and guts.

We are a sum of those fragments of ourselves that we may not even remember, and they are often fueling us.

Salem was just a drop in the ocean...

Where do the mysteries begin and end? The answer is nowhere and everywhere.

Harmony—the common roots that we share with others—will always prevail.

Without such knowledge and wisdom, we are but rootless trees, destined to fall in the raging storms that continue to plague us.

In time, I will share what I have learned—another aspect of social death in a world that is seemingly waking up.

The record keepers have had a tendency to experience convenient historical amnesia.

Where is the love? When we are wrapped up in whatever we are doing, it may appear as if everything stays the same. As time passes, one...

Impossible to focus on one group without the others, and as divided as they appeared to be, they were bound by their afflictions.

She stood waiting in my doorway, which is often ajar. I invited her in and still carry her with me.

If you are still lost, I wish you well in your wandering. I beg you to trust your own compass at every turn.

One laughed and the other wept. At nightfall, I slept on the banks of Crooked River under the shelter of stars.

When she shared her hard-earned wisdom, it required time, possibly years, to comprehend the fullness of it.