Maria – Bringing in the Day

Introversion

Posted on March 1, 2026February 28, 2026 by Maria

Introversion When I am around a lot of people, there is a little scribe in my brain who insists on taking notes, processing every single interaction. He is very thorough and writes slowly with his tin... Read More

At Sixty-Three

Posted on February 22, 2026February 22, 2026 by Maria

Even more true now that I am almost sixty-seven. At Sixty-Three There is so much history in me now, so many memories from so many phases of life, all calling for recognition, for some kind of resoluti... Read More

How They Saved Me

Posted on February 8, 2026 by Maria

How They Saved Me My prayers of desperation were almost always centered around my children. Please. I beg You. Bargaining, even though I don’t believe in that sort of thing. I would have given my li... Read More

Source

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Maria

Source We are standing on dangerous ground, with leadership more interested in retaliation than policy, sewing fear and hate as a source of power. The continual chaos tears at us, rattles our brains. ... Read More

Meal Prayer

Posted on February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 by Maria

Meal Prayer As we take these gifts into our bodies, may we be aware of the daily abundance that You provide, that we receive. As the healing energy of this meal nourishes us, may we be grateful for ev... Read More

No Words

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Maria

I have no words this morning. I don’t have a poem to match the national tragedy we are experiencing every single day. It feels disrespectful to post anything else right now. It is shocking, terr... Read More

Once

Posted on January 18, 2026January 18, 2026 by Maria

Once Once upon a time, I was brand new. I saw faces, felt the touch, of people who loved me just for being born. I grew. I reached out for the green of the trees, the blue of the sky. I breathed in th... Read More

Math

Posted on January 11, 2026January 11, 2026 by Maria

Math All these years have passed and I still have the same repetitive dream. I am in college. It’s the end of semester and I realize there is a math class, calculus, trigonometry, a hard one, of cou... Read More

Instructions for Beginning Anything

Posted on January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 by Maria

Instructions for Beginning Anything Before you start, take a moment to do whatever it is you need to do- sweep the floor, wipe the table, take out the trash- to clear the house that is your mind. Let ... Read More

New Year’s Resolution

Posted on December 28, 2025December 28, 2025 by Maria

New Year’s Resolution Take a bite of warm apple sauce on this frigid January day. Remember your small granddaughter climbing the rickety ladder by the tree, its branches drooping with fruit. Remembe... Read More

Breath

Posted on December 21, 2025December 20, 2025 by Maria

Breath In and out, in and out, in and out. In and out, tree and me, we breathe one another. Lung to leaf, she inhales my breath to build her body. Bronchioles branch, delivering her gift to all my cel... Read More

Daily Prayer

Posted on December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 by Maria

Daily Prayer It is here in these quiet pre-dawn moments that I have come to discover the Kingdom of Heaven within. At Your feet I set my burdens then raise my heart open, breathe in healing Light, bef... Read More

Ode to a Chair

Posted on November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 by Maria

Ode To A Chair The old metal chair sits in the backyard, Its back firm, Its arms magnanimously at its side. It weathers all the seasons, Patiently enduring snow and storms And oxidizing sun. Dirt and ... Read More

Chipmunk

Posted on November 23, 2025November 23, 2025 by Maria

Chipmunk All of my adult life, I have felt this small chipmunk of fear running a labyrinth in my chest, lost and panicked. The thoughts that really get it going: Am I enough? Am I doing enough? Is the... Read More

Changes

Posted on November 16, 2025November 16, 2025 by Maria

Changes We have lived in this house for so long that sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I half expect one child or another to peek around the corner. But they are all grown up now with their own... Read More

Take a Knee

Posted on November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 by Maria

Take a Knee Sitting on the sidelines at my grandson’s soccer game on that cool night, bundled in a shared blanket, we cheered for his team while our neighbors to the left cheered for the other and t... Read More

New

Posted on November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 by Maria

New A brand new box of twenty-four crayons, (not eight-too small, not sixty-four- beyond my wildest dreams) their perfect tips and jackets, each lined up in snug order in their yellow and green box. I... Read More

Drawn

Posted on October 26, 2025October 26, 2025 by Maria

Drawn I spend a lot of time staring off into the trees. I’m not studying them so much, not specifically, its just my eyes and heart are drawn here. So much life- fungus, insects, birds, squirrels, f... Read More

All In

Posted on October 19, 2025October 19, 2025 by Maria

All In When I have borne witness to more pain than I can carry, I sometimes take a walk along the seashore of my mind. I surrender the heartaches I hold to the crashing waves, let them be washed away ... Read More

What is a Poem?

Posted on October 12, 2025October 12, 2025 by Maria

What is a Poem? You know that feeling when you’ve got too much to do and you can’t imagine how you are going to pack it all in so to calm yourself, you count ahead to the next quiet day, which doe... Read More

Every Morning

Posted on October 5, 2025October 5, 2025 by Maria

Every Morning I am remembering our recent camping trip to Lake Michigan, how we woke early to walk to the beach in the dawn barely light. It seemed we were the only ones awake, the campground so still... Read More

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Bringing in the Day

Poetry by Maria Brady-Smith

Author: Maria