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"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 


Archive - Poetry
By Mary T. Hoffman

4-H Boy - 6 Apr 2006
9/11 Six Years Later – 11 September 2007
9/11 Seven Years Later – 11 September 2008
A CHILD’S THOUGHT OF GOD – 15 February 2008
A CRADLE SONG – 16 August 2008
Adoration – 7 March 2009
A Few Snowflakes – 18 November 2008
Alexander Pope – 20 December 2007
Alice Brown – 16 January 2009
Amelia Josephine Burr – 7 April 2009
American Wild Mint – 7 August 2006
A New Beginning - 13 Apr 2006
A Noiseless Patient Spider – 1 July 2008
Happy New Year! – 1 January 2009
A Perfect Day – 6 March 2008
“Aprilian” – 3 April 2007
April Poems – 21 April 2007
April Rain – 28 Apr 2006
A PSALM OF LIFE – 13 October 2007
Archibald Lampman – 28 May 2008
A True Rebirth - 4 Apr 2006
Autumn – 23 September 2006
AUTUMN – 22 September 2008
Autumn Glory – 23 October 2007
AUTUMN GREY by Jenny Moxham – 24 September 2007
A Vagabond Song – 23 September 2007
Back to God – 23 April 2007
Beauty and Truth? – 26 Apr 2006
Better Than Music – 10 April 2008
Blessings of Autumn – 7 November 2007
Carl Sandburg – 20 August 2008
COMMUNION – 22 March 2008
“Consider the Lilies” – 8 May 2007
CONSTANT – 12 January 2008
Corruption in Government and Religion Continues - 9 Apr 2006
Cries and Lies - 18 Apr 2006
CROWN OF CREATION – 17 August 2008
Daffodils - 24 Mar 2006
Daybreak – 26 April 2009
Defenders of the Faith? – 3 May 2007
December Snow – 19 December 2008
Early December – 3 December 2008
Early Morning – 6 June 2007
Earth Day – 22 April 2007
Edna St. Vincent Millay – 23 September 2008
Edwin Markham – 26 December 2008
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – 3 January 2009
Ella Wheeler Wilcox – 24 May 2008
Ella Wheeler Wilcox – 8 January 2009
Emerson’s Quotations about Poets and Poetry – 23 October 2008
Emily Dickinson – 26 March 2008
Emily Dickinson – 30 March 2009
Emma Willard – 17 November 2006
EPITAPH TO A DOG – 8 April 2009
FABLE – 4 March 2008
FACES – 2 July 2006
FAITH – 13 September 2008
First Day of Spring – 20 March 2008
Flag Day – 14 June 2007
FLOWERS – 8 August 2008
Fog – 4 October 2006
Forsythias - 10 Apr 2006
FRAGMENT – 15 September 2008
Frances Ridley Havergal – 27 December 2008
Frank’s Birthday – 30 April 2007
Fulfillment – 9 September 2006
Gardens – 5 May 2007
GENTLENESS – 29 May 2008
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) – 27 July 2008
God Bless Your Home – 27 August 2008
God Is Seen In Creation - 25 Mar 2006
God's Cathedral - 26 Mar 2006
Goldfinch and Chickadee – 29 July 2006
Good Friday – 21 March 2008
Greek Independence Day – 25 March 2008
Greek Independence Day – 25 March 2009
Happy Father’s Day – 15 June 2008
“Happy” Meat? – 16 July 2008
Happy Mother’s Day? – 13 May 2007
Happy Valentine’s Day! – 14 February 2009
Happy Valentine’s Day, Frank! – 14 February 2007
Hard Frost Warning – 28 October 2007
HOME, SWEET HOME! – 5 March 2008
Hope – 8 November 2007
Hope is a Subtle Glutton – 13 April 2009
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers – 18 January 2008
How Do I Love Thee? – 14 February 2008
How I Love These Autumn Days! – 16 November 2007
HYMN TO THE NIGHT – 12 October 2007
ICE – 10 December 2007
Ice Storm – 17 January 2007
I Died For Beauty – 9 December 2008
INSPIRATION – 15 December 2008
IT DROPPED SO LOW – 10 September 2008
I Thought How Once Theocritus Had Sung – 18 December 2007
James Russell Lowell – 13 September 2007
James Shirley – 11 February 2008
Jenny Moxham – A True Hero - 14 Jan 2006
John Greenleaf Whittier – 18 October 2007
John Milton – 20 July 2008
Joyce Kilmer – 13 May 2009
June and Wild Roses – 11 June 2006
Lance Landall – 6 August 2008
Lance Landall’s Poetry – 6 November 2007
Last Day of November – 30 November 2006
Leaf Peepers, Rejoice! – 16 October 2008
Leaf Peeping – 19 October 2006
Leisure – 19 July 2006
Lilacs in Poetry – 6 May 2006
Little Things – 31 July 2007
Living Soul – 29 October 2006
Lord, Come Now – 6 February 2007
Matthew Arnold – 29 August 2008
Memorial Day (observed) – 26 May 2008
Memorial Day (traditional) – 30 May 2006
Memorial Day (traditional) – 30 May 2007
Memorial Day (traditional) – 30 May 2008
Merry Christmas! – 25 December 2008
Milton’s Prayer of Patience – 16 November 2006
Miracles – 20 June 2008
Missing – 19 May 2008
More “Bliss” – 4 April 2007
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold – 25 Apr 2006
My Prayer – 8 June 2006
Nature – 14 April 2007
Nikiphσros Vrettαkos – 23 August 2008
NO! – 1 November 2007
No Guts, No Glory – 29 April 2008
NOT EVERYONE LOVES CHRISTMAS – 24 December 2007
Not In Vain – 28 June 2006
NOVEMBER – 27 November 2007
Obedience – 23 May 2007
Of All the Souls – 4 March 2009
Our 45th Wedding Anniversary – 7 July 2006
Our 47th Wedding Anniversary – 7 July 2008
OUR LORD’S COMPASSION – 6 September 2008
Peace on Earth – 13 May 2008
Percy Bysshe Shelley – 1 March 2008
Poetry by Belinda van Rensburg – 10 July 2008
Power - 11 Apr 2006
Praise – 2 November 2006
PROVIDENCE – 18 July 2007
Raindrops - 11 Feb 2006
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 19 April 2007
Rapture – 13 November 2008
Record Autumn Heat – 26 September 2007
Resurrection Day – 8 April 2007
RIGHT RULE – 14 October 2008
Robert Browning – 4 April 2009
Robert Frost – 3 January 2008
Samuel Longfellow – 25 May 2008
Sara Teasdale – 5 May 2009
Seasons - 17 Apr 2006
Seventy – 3 November 2007
SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS – 4 October 2008
She Walks In Beauty – 15 March 2008
She Was a Phantom of Delight – 23 June 2008
Sidney Lanier – 24 March 2008
Silence – 14 July 2008
Simplicity – 9 June 2006
Skiing in Heaven? – 2 August 2006
SNOWFLAKES – 24 December 2008
Snowy Silence – 21 December 2008
Song on May Morning – 2 May 2009
Spring Beauty – 18 May 2007
Spring Snow – 15 April 2007
SUBSTITUTION – 17 December 2008
SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST – 25 November 2008
Summer – 21 June 2006
Take Time – 12 December 2006
Thank God – 23 March 2007
THE ANCIENT SAGE – 6 December 2008
THE BARD – 14 August 2008
The Bible and William Blake – 13 August 2006
THE CHILD’S QUESTION – 16 February 2009
The Chipmunk – 22 May 2006
THE CLEANEST THING IN CREATION – 2 September 2008
The Dandelion - 19 Apr 2006
THE DAY IS DONE – 8 October 2007
THE ETERNAL GOODNESS – 25 February 2008
The Fate of the Prophets – 6 November 2008
THE FOUNTAIN – 6 February 2009
THE GOD OF THE LIVING – 23 November 2008
The Good Old Days -1 Feb 2006
THE HAPPY TREE – 18 April 2009
The Immortal Mind – 10 April 2009
The Life We Have Is Very Great – 7 December 2008
The Mountains Stood in Haze – 1 August 2008
THEN SILENCE - 2 Apr 2006
The Old Stoic – 2 June 2007
The Old Stoic – 9 February 2009
The Outdoors – 7 May 2007
“The Out-Doors Man” – 9 November 2008
The Poetry of Andrew Pell – 20 September 2007
The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead – 21 April 2008
THERE CAME A WIND LIKE A BUGLE – 29 September 2008
There Is No Unbelief – 10 May 2008
These Are the Days When Birds Come Back – 18 May 2008
“The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean” – 9 March 2007
The Slaughtermen of Bassatin - 4 March 2006
THE SLEEP – 28 September 2007
“The Snowman in the Yard” – 17 February 2007
THE SNOW-SHOWER – 15 December 2007
The Soul Selects Her Own Society – 2 May 2008
The Storm – 21 May 2006
THE VOICE OF GOD – 15 June 2007
THE WHEAT AND THE TARES – 11 August 2008
The World Below the Brine – 12 June 2008
“The World Is Too Much With Us” – 14 May 2007
THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD – 11 January 2009
Thomas Hood – 9 May 2009
THRENODY FOR A POET – 29 May 2007
Thunderstorms – 16 August 2007
Tigers (continued) – 15 August 2006
’Tis the Morning after Christmas – 26 December 2006
TO A WATERFOWL – 23 June 2007
TO SPRING – 20 April 2008
TO THE HOLY SPIRIT – 29 September 2007
TO THE MOON – 20 October 2008
VENI CREATOR – 3 May 2008
VESTIGIA – 9 July 2007
Walt Whitman – 9 June 2008
Washington’s Birthday – 22 February 2007
Was It Worth It? – 24 November 2007
We Learned the Whole of Love – 30 November 2008
We Like March – 11 March 2009
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer – 30 June 2008
Who’s the Psychopath? - 22 Apr 2006
Wild Roses, Buttercups, and Daisies – 9 June 2007
William Blake – 6 June 2008
William Bliss Carman – 2 April 2007
William Shakespeare – 20 March 2009
William Wordsworth – 21 April 2009
Winter Is Good – 26 February 2009
Winter Wonderland - 23 Jan 2006
Winter Wonderland – 14 December 2007

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