Sharon Lopez Mooney
Poet & Interfaith Chaplain
A Selection of Published Poems to Read -Click title below
1980's
2020
2020
So many ways to lose your heart
Stepping into 5 am, San Carlos
My folks had private morning rituals
La Bahia summer sits on my writing
They don't notice us those trees
After twenty years is there fire?
So many ways to lose your heart
2021
Scent of Green
Dying from a different kind of arid
2021 (continued)
Father, was the cost too high?
It's time to let go, mother tree
Dying of a different kind of arid
Somewhere days are being counted
Where do pelicans die?
Writing History
I am a crone writing in an uncommon common voice about people’s stories, death, aging, and witnessing our culture, while I put shoulder to the wheel of change and hope with all I write. I've been seriously writing since 1978. Now retired from Interfaith Chaplaincy in the death and dying field, I live in Sonora, Mexico and visit my thriving family in northern California.
In 1978 I received a California Arts Council Grant to establish a rural poetry series; also co-published a small regional arts journal; was a co-owner of an alternative literature service; and produced poetry readings and performances.
My poems have been published or are forthcoming in a variety of journals and publications such as:
Only poems that have been published are included on this website. On the poem page is the publication date and where it was published. The links that are not live are poems that have been chosen, but the non-underlined publications are waiting to be published.
Anthologies:
Cold Lake Anthology
Calyx: Women and Aging
Songs to the Sun
Poetry is a Mountain
The Wide Open Sky
Words are Power
Smoke & Myrrors (UK)
Publications
Fallow Deer
The MacGuffin
Muddy River Poetry Review
The Voices Project
The Avalon Literary Review
Adelaid International Magazine
Galway Review
Ginosko Literary Review
California Quarterly
Sybil Journal
Publications
The Ricochet
RoundTable
Hags on Fire
NewVerse News
Visible
Writing in a Woman's Voice
Evening Street Review
Unlikely Stories Mark V
The Mindful Word
Smokey Blue Literary & Arts Magazine