One day after my triumphant return to blogging and I almost missed posting something. Okay, so maybe it’s not so much triumphant as wobbling back out onto rollerskates after a couple decades, but indulge for a bit if you would. […]
Tag: poetry
A Connected Word Wednesday
After a few weeks of new poems, I decided to reach back a couple years and dust one off. i stand connected too far from a future to see the right answers and too close to a past that contains […]
Word Wednesday On A Friday
Through some interesting (and frustrating) mutations of my sleep schedule this week, Wednesday turned into a contest for survival and I didn’t post anything for Word Wednesday. So, rather than wrack my brain for something to write about today, I […]
An Expected Word Wednesday
First off, thank you to everyone for their kind words regarding yesterday’s post and our precious Mia. This week’s poem is from a few weeks back, during another burst of late night creativity. This time, I was reading Pablo Neruda […]
My Gift To You
Time to celebrate another slingshot around the sun I suppose. Sounds so much cooler than birthday doesn’t it? Like I was actually more a part of the process than hanging on for dear life as this little blue-green ball hurtles […]
Parbaked Word Wednesday
I’ll freely admit that this poem is a bit on the underside of cooked. It started out of an afternoon of staring at the walls and wondering what to do with myself. Then, I asked myself the title as a […]
These Word Wednesdays
Have to confess that rather than writing consistently to start the year, it’s been stops and starts. Quick bursts of output and then days of dormancy. Since I don’t want to bore anyone more than they might already be, all […]
The Hill
I’d planned to post a poem this morning since Word Wednesday was pre-empted by the Inauguration, but there’s nothing that I could post that would be better than the poem Amanda Gorman read yesterday, “The Hill We Climb”. So, I […]
A Blue Word Wednesday
Part of the reason I enjoy Word Wednesday is that it gives me a good excuse to go back through dusty old digital folders looking for something to post. Sometimes, that’s all I find. Other times, it’s like opening a […]
The Art Of Overthinking
Given half a chance, I’ll overthink anything. Take a half hour to pick out a movie? Sure. Spend weeks mulling whether or not I should get a new pair of boots? Yup. Go back and forth about whether or not […]