She Is Ready
Here is another of my memory poems from this season of finding and restoring old photographs. I put it up without the photograph so you can let your own mind paint the picture for you. She is ready, purse packed, hands pocketed in resolution, standing by her charge. Will she fly through puffball clouds, piercing [...]
Desert Beauty
Where water hides divorced from shimmering air, and plants stand sentinel within unbounded space,… [the remainder is deleted, because the poem is under submission.]
Collegiate Peaks Forum Event
n May 13 and 14 I gave two presentations on “Pathways in Reconciliation” for the Collegiate Peaks Forum in Buena Vista, Colorado. Located in the valley east of the Collegiate Peaks (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia), the Forum brings people together to reflect on a wide range of issues in philosophy, science and religion. You can [...]
Poem for Mothers
You yielded to creation’s flow in trust, in hope, Emerging uncontrolled cries of pain and joy radiating from your core. Each task accomplished, left behind in photographs, You walked a path that mothers know has bound all generations in the alpha hope, omega longing, patient loving of [...]
William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.