Skip to content
Laura Kauffman

Laura Kauffman

author of Carolina Clay and Typeset Poetry

  • Carolina Clay
    A Collection of Poems on Love and Loss
    • Praise for Carolina Clay
    • Book Release Event
  • Typeset Poetry
    A collaboration with artist Emily McQueen
  • Writing
    Read the Latest on the Blog
  • Contact
    To Schedule a Book Reading

Category: Poetry

POEM: A Liturgy of the Enneagram

Liturgy #2 from the Email Series We believe, O Creator, that when You shaped us in our inmost beings, You saw all You made and said it was good.

Posted onJune 11, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagschurch, community, connection, enneagram, god, growth, gut triad, head triad, heart triad, jesus, liturgy, love, orientation to time, poem, Poetry, pray, prayer, repentance, self awareness, shadow sides, stances, worshipLeave a comment

POEM: Patron Saints of Believers

At Christmastime my playmates would concoct elaborate plans to catch old St. Nick in the act, and bust that jolly man.

Posted onJune 10, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsamwriting, belief, certainty, christmas, doubt, knowing, loch ness, love, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, rhyme, romance, trustLeave a comment

POEM: Haiku #1

rain and drought am i sunlit vale and shadowed glen all and none collide    

Posted onJune 5, 2019June 5, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsbeing, complexity, contrast, drought, haiku, light, mystery, nature, Poetry, poetrycommunity, rain, shadowLeave a comment

POEM: 4pm/4am

Inspired by the 4am/4pm poems Rachel Welcher penned in her breathtaking collection, Two Funerals Then Easter.  In her Lenten book club, she challenged us to write our own version of these poems.  Here they are.   4PM At 4 pm, I ordered you and your school-day energy out of the door.

Posted onJune 4, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagschildren, kids, love, minecraft, mom, noise, parenting, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, school, sons3 Comments

POEM: A Liturgy for the Bullied

Written for one of my email subscribers, after she told me of the heartbreak of being bullied and watching her child go through the same thing.   Most days, O Lord, I choose to believe the words you said in that earliest Garden

Posted onMay 29, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsbullied, bullies, bully, forgiveness, jesus, liturgy, poem, Poetry, prayer, victimsLeave a comment

POEM: Burning Bushes

Originally posted on Laura Kauffman:
Watch: it always comes right when you expect it least. The light slants, enchants; your spirit, wakening, hums and rouses the sleeping beast.

Posted onMay 23, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsamwriting, god, light, mystery, nature, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, slant, writingLeave a comment

Dear Reader

She’s always been heavy handed, my mother, when she lays the paint on her water-based canvas.

Posted onMay 22, 2019October 29, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsart, couplet, hopewriter, paint, poem, Poetry, reader, watercolor, writeLeave a comment

POEM: Motivation (Hope*writer Challenge Day 8)

It strikes me now as I sit down to write some ill-tempered thoughts about motivation that blood is dripping from my knuckles

Posted onMay 20, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsamwriting, flannery, harper lee, hemingway, motivation, orwell, pablo neruda, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, sylvia plath, writing2 Comments

POEM: Note (Hope*writer Challenge Day 6)

This poem was born as a note roughly scribbled in a notebook.  I wrote it from deep in the Black Hills of South Dakota, as I drank coffee on the porch and marveled at how loud the silence was.   i close the door and exhale

Posted onMay 18, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsfree verse, get into nature, god, holy, identity, nature, note, outdoors, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, technology, unplug, wildLeave a comment

POEM: Word Count (Hope*writer Challenge Day 5)

pour out liquid words

Posted onMay 17, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsamwriting, creatives, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, poets, tanka, wordcount, words, writers, writingLeave a comment

Posts navigation

← Older posts

About Laura

Laura Kauffman is a poet and writer living in the Loess Hills of Iowa.

She is the author of Carolina Clay: A Collection of Poems on Love and Loss.  Her writing and poems have been featured in Fathom Magazine, The Mudroom, Christians in Context, and The Core Omaha.

When she’s not writing, she can be found exploring the outdoors with her 15 chickens, 4 pets, 3 sons, and 1 husband, Chris.

Follow Laura Kauffman on WordPress.com

Follow Me

  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Instagram

No Instagram images were found.

Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel