A Selection of Published Poems to Read -Click title below
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. Now retired from Interfaith Ministry in the death and dying field, I live in 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:
The MacGuffin
Fallow Deer
The MacGuffin
Muddy River Poetry Review
The Voices Project
The Avalon Literary Review
Adelaide International Magazine
Galway Review
Ginosko Literary Review
California Quarterly
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 dates below indicate dates written, not necessarily when published. The links that are not live are poems have been chosen, but the publications have not yet been 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)
2020
They don't notice us those trees
When they ask me where I'm from
And, I quote Hafiz, I lean as close to you...
So many ways to lose your heart
Stepping into 5 am, San Carlos, Mexico
My folks had private morning rituals
I'm too big to fit
Emergency! 911
Bahia summer sits on my writing
I am Thankful but ashamed
6am Meteor showers
Remembering Tao
American Dream Cowboy
Something about his hands
The Shame in School Hallways
2021
Caught on razor's edge
6am Meteor showers
After twenty years is there fire?
Sharon Lopez Mooney, published poet, Interfaith Minister, spiritual coach
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