Praise Poem
I want to wish everyone a peaceful Holy Week, and a Blessed Easter. I wrote this poem a few months ago. I'd seen another praise poem, written like this, designed [...]
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Apr, 2020
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Apr, 2020
How to Find the Muse
Hey, it's National Poetry Month, so I've decided to post a few poems this April. It's been fun for me to look back over my decades-long collection of poems to [...]
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Mar, 2020
Sheltering-in-Place
When I was 21 I went to Europe on a five-week student tour with my best friends. On our last day we were in England, and we went on a [...]
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Mar, 2020
Little Fires Everywhere, a consideration of race and class in America
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng is a well-written, topical book, an engrossing read, and the basis for a brand-new series starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon on Hulu. I [...]
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Mar, 2020
Oisin and Patrick: an Irish Tale
For Saint Patrick’s Day, I thought I would share a bit of Irish history (sometimes called mythology). This poem tells the story of Patrick’s encounter with a poet named Oisin. [...]
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Mar, 2020
Poetic License
When I feel sad disconnected unsure of where I belong I invite the poet in. She will remember the soft yellow-gray belly of the mocking bird vibrating as he [...]
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Feb, 2020
The World That We Knew, a review
Alice Hoffman’s “The World That We Knew” is an achingly beautiful fairy tale about the Holocaust. Her novel emphasizes the plight of children separated from their parents: Jewish children and [...]
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Feb, 2020
Cat Naps and Rock Candy
Written with the prompts: take a cat nap, some of the rocks, anger, majestic benevolence, grand rising, I got the real story a few days later I like to take [...]
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Feb, 2020
The Breath of the Universe
Hey, it's Valentine's Day, so I decided to dig up one of my sweetest little love stories of all time. It's all about the breath. And chocolate. Written with my [...]
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Feb, 2020
Marilyn’s Folly
Written with the prompts: Angus lost a shoe not far from the folly, busy street but you are alone, dog named Moose who didn’t like men, buyer’s remorse, refuse, I [...]