Sitemap - 2025 - Potter's Inn with Stephen W. Smith

After the Family Leaves

The Last Fireflies of Spring

Baby Steps in a Modern Age

Before the World Ends

The Weather in Iona

My Undoing at Iona

The Celtic Cross

Becoming

Thin Spaces

Beginning Again

My Coracle on Iona

Greening

Lost in Modern Times

When Your Body Shows the Score

From a Poem to a Poetry Book

What's in Your Bucket?

Higher Education is in Trouble--really?

The Journey: Two Poems to Travel With Through Life

The Caring Knob

Low Tide

The Cloud of Unknowing

The Long Conversation in My Heart

Unlearning in the School of Life

Coming Soon! Summer Hours

Why do I read and write Poetry...

Consider the Flower

The Gift of the Red Bud Tree

Easter Blessing!

Easter Song

The Loneliness that Kills

Finding a Better Way to Wake Up

Eden is on Fire

When Creation Roars--a Disaster Poem

Silence

The Voice of Love

Making a Roux with a Poem

The Lingering Jesus

Why I Write Poems

Pain Sucks!

Lamenting in Lent

The Trash Compactor: Stuffing it all and calling it a life

It is solved by walking: 40 Days and 40 Miles with 40 Questions

Learning to Listen

Two Poems from an Old Soul

Lessons from a Caregiver

Somewhere in the Middle

What Pain Teaches Us

Hospital Waiting Rooms

Why Poetry Became the Medium of My New Message and Voice

Wilderness: Why we go into it and what happens to us as we enter it.

An Invitation to Become a Pilgrim

The Sinking Feeling of Despair

The Power in Choice and the Gift of Nuance

Nuance

Accepting My Toes

Exciting News and an Invitation to Help

The Wild Deity

Riding Swift Camels in the Deserts of our Daily Lives

Becoming a Magi

Pushing and Grieving a Dead Dream

An Invitation to Live