Common Language Project

The City Monk and the Country Monk — A Conversation in Haiku James Mendur Spring in the city – Living a simple monk’s life as it awakens Listening to Spring…

Student Body Kari Lynch I watch you weave disaster out of bad decisions mixed with Good intentions Then hear you singing the common chorus of despair That I once knew…

Children: Cities Debra Levy-Fritts Seek the welfare of the city… — Jeremiah 29:4-7 What blessing can be made, what listening in, lifelong shade, really, to guide the steps away, the…

Anne’s Lament (A Letter from Anne Hathaway to William Shakespeare) Sara Kumar Dear husband, it is I, your simple maid I trust the city sun shines bright for you The…

A Suppressed Great Archana Kannan I am now living in a simple, smiling city, listening to the common people from a balcony and I clasp your body into an embrace…

Listening for What the Walls Might Say Christine Irving I shelter in the shade of a simple city stanchion scrubbed clean of spray paint, no hidden messages embedded in graffiti’s…

Nightlife Brenda Gaba It wasn’t a singing I heard, nothing close to celebration. The life luster, a quick serve, was there, and then night dust lost it. I had been…

We Are Singing the West Rhett Forman we are singing the west singing the living frame of Dallas city singing the stanchion bearing plain singing the once listening glistening luster…

Embrace V.P. Crowe Leaving in the thick of morning traffic, I catch myself smiling as commuters honk and weave and shake their fists, open mouths and angry faces looking very…