Category: National Poetry Month

My Insomnia Gossips About Me Behind My Back

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in dreamscape, Feminism, Gossip, Imagination, Insomnia, Memory, Musings, Mythology, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Soul, Spirituality

To finish off our National Poetry Month celebration, I offer a more recent creation of mine. Thanks for reading! I made that girl, but is she grateful? No.   True, I drove her to the edge  of consciousness dumped her on a shore peopled with past failures and traumas, to the lip of a river … Continue reading My Insomnia Gossips About Me Behind My Back

Life on the Flood Plain

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Children, Families, Grace, home, Hope, National Poetry Month, Pets, Poetry, Possibility, Rain

Another original poem for National Poetry Month! This week's offering is a tale of my California childhood, back when the rain was plentiful enough that we'd often watch the winter river rising against the side of the levee. Life on the Flood Plain   Nestled in the south elbow of the levee we are sheltered … Continue reading Life on the Flood Plain

Flow

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Feminism, Grace, Menstuation, Moon, Moon-goddess, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Possibility, Woman-power

Another classic poem of mine for National Poetry Month. Flow   She rises through silt and sand seeps through cracks in asphalt to suckle fox tails and dandelions sprouting wild on levee roads. Her power courses through me like moon  pulling water to sea rushing by pear orchards carving jagged leaf veins in my belly … Continue reading Flow

For My Mother and Other Collectors of Strays

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Aging, Coming of Age, Creativity, Current Events, Families, Hope, Imagination, Memory, Musings, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Possibility, Writing

April is National Poetry Month! I've dug down deep for this one, written for my Mom at least 30 years ago when she was the age that I am now. For My Mother and Other Collectors of Strays   I want you to contradict me. When I shiver in my cavernous apartment complaining that autumn … Continue reading For My Mother and Other Collectors of Strays

Velvet Dress

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Humor, National Poetry Month, Poetry, romance

Hi, there!!  In case you haven't heard, April is National Poetry Month, so all month I've been posting original poems.  Times being what they are, I've wanted to post poems that are fun and/or funny!  This week's offering fits both categories well.  Enjoy!   The music is salty like dry roasted peanuts. I come downstairs … Continue reading Velvet Dress

The Bear, a sestina

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Grace, Joy, Magical Realism, Musings, Mythology, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Spirituality

April is National Poetry Month, so I'll be posting a few poems this season.  Currently I spend more time writing prose stories instead of poems, so it's been fun for me to look back at poems I wrote in past decades. This poem is from a period when I was experimenting with classic forms.   … Continue reading The Bear, a sestina

Praise Poem

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Creativity, Current Events, Easter, Grace, Joy, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Prayer, Spirituality, Spring, Writing

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 so the reader would read the first column from top to bottom, and then come back up and read the second column.  I thought it … Continue reading Praise Poem

How to Find the Muse

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Creativity, Grace, Joy, Light, Magical Realism, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Spirituality

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 find a few that will be just right for this moment in time.  None of those wild, whiny, passionate unrequited love poems I seemed prone … Continue reading How to Find the Muse