Mj Pettengill

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

With all of the snow piled up around us, it had become an unintended commitment. I didn’t give it much thought. It just happened.

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

When my oldest son was three years old, he was convinced that a rainbow had fallen into the puddle...

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.

If you have always relied on a lantern to see, it is time to extinguish it. You may have forgotten that you know the way.

...it is essential to be informed, but at what cost?

At first, I thought it was a dream—the howling and rising pitch of the wind. Like an avenging spirit, it screeched over the rolling...

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.

There's a patch of old snow in a corner That I should have guessed Was a blow-away paper the rain Had brought to rest. It is speckled...

E. E. CUMMINGS what if a much of a which of a wind gives truth to the summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks...

To me, the most incredible fact about opossums is that they consume thousands of ticks. I happen to live in a tick-infested area.

Salem was just a drop in the ocean...

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

My native culture and traditions have taught me that the barred owl is a messenger, a bringer of wisdom.

He was an agreeable fellow, but I had given my whole heart to Silas.

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