Follow this blog
-
Recent Posts
Archives
whimsy gizmos
Blogroll
Click to check out these blogs I stalk. (They rock!)
- Across the Lake, Eerily (Marie Elena & Walt)
- Awakened Words (Mark Windham)
- Bootless Cries (Anne Katherine)
- Conversations with Laurie (Laurie Kolp)
- Cracker Jack Poet (Sara Vinas)
- Drift of Bubbles (Diana Domino)
- Felt-Tip Fountain Pen (poetcolette)
- Fights With Poems (Daniel Ari)
- Hannah Gosselin's Poetry
- I Hate Poetry (Buddah Moskowitz)
- Iain Kemp Poetry
- Imagine – Pearl Ketover Prilik
- Kim King's Blog
- Linda Goin's Blog
- Magic in the Backyard (Kellie)
- Misky's Poetry
- Mousetales Press (Linda Hatton)
- One Inch Tall – Catherine Lee
- Our Lost Jungle – Khara House
- Poetic Asides with Robert Lee Brewer
- Poetic Bloomings (Marie Elena and Walt)
- Poetic Echoes and Dancing Shadows (Nikki Markle)
- Purple Pen in Portland (Sara McNulty)
- Rosemary Mint (Shawna)
- Sharp Little Pencil (Amy Barlow Liberatore)
- The Chime – Phil Canon
- The Man with the Blue Guitar (Vince Gotera)
- The Poet Tree (Sharon Ingraham)
- Through the Eyes of Meena Rose
- Wander, Ponder, Poem & Pix (Pamela Smyk Cleary)
- Whatever and Ever (Chev Shire)
- When Words Escape Me (Paula Wanken)
Copyright Info
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Forget Why We Write
;; Forget that each bright morning dawns in indigo ink and bids us spill our former selves, offers a fresh petaled page for the (loves me, loves me not) aching. Forget that words are keys and bandages and nails, songs … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged expectations, on writing, poeming, Poetic Asides prompts, Poetry, rejection, why we write, Writing
6 Comments
Boy, oh Boy
(Poem Smudged in Muddy Fingerprints & Bright Green Crayon) … I tugged. I shrugged. I ate a bug. I toad the line. I clawed and climbed. I peed. I fleed. I need a lawyer. (Mom’s gonna kill me this time.) … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged dVerse poems, gender bender, little boy poems, poeming, Poetry
16 Comments
The One where it Dawns on Her
(aubade for all things broken) .. For more than ever, I have wanted something more than all this strugg -led skin, wanted to shrug my shoulders and shed my shoulds, fill my scars with stories. See that place beside the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged aubades, dawn, morning poems, poeming, Poetry, Poets United, shedding my shoulds, still waters, water poems
18 Comments
Forget the Alamo
.. and all those other things that happened in Texas. This one small world is vast enough for what I want to say. Forget the way she smiled as you were leaving; her eyes are lies no one has ever … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alamo, moon stones, poeming, poetic asides poems, Rapunzel, Twin Towers
3 Comments
Of Cottages and Clouds
Fisherman’s House at Varengeville, by Monet. . It’s loud, this salt. This briny ribbon breeze blown in, tinged with turquoise and pastel time. She’s shaped a world of quiet seafoam clay, steeped the day in parchment sky and silence. Come. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged jars of clay, Margo Roby prompts, poems by the sea, sea poems, sky songs, turquoise
11 Comments
Teachable Impostures
.. The sky has spoken. Broken open, spilled and filled me to the brim with a mess of un -dressed sighs, unstressed syllables level in their waiting, and I am feeling surreal, cerulean, ocean blue and kicked in foamy teeth. … Continue reading
1991
… It was trying; you were trying (to kill me, slowly) (to fill me, flow me with a rage that should have lasted decades.) Fractured promises and tables, hidden movie tickets, the smell of weed and sin. The thin crimson … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged broken tables, candles, divorce, heartbreak, past life poems, Pink Girl Ink prompts, poeming, Poetry, process poems, wedding cake, wishes
7 Comments
just a minute; one more cup
.. there is no allegro ……in me today; only the adagio slow of words sipped, ………….slipped low through lingered ………………languid lips. .. Written for Toads, Play It Again, for Laurie’s awesome “minute poem” allegro prompt.
Striking Rock
In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. – Sufi proverb .. We ache ourselves in to divining rod shadows, these places broken open in search of water, sanity, salt. Fault lines … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Lake Tahoe, photo poems, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, stone poems, throwing stones
25 Comments
Minding Manna
… Give us this day a way to fill more than aching stomachs. Our daily bread is not enough for empty hearts. And when we merely fold our hands and close our eyes, ………….forgive us. .. Written for … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 000 Poets for Change, 100, daily bread, homelessness, hunger, hungry, Lord's Prayer, poeming, Poetry
7 Comments