“Poetry gives me my mighty-spidy-mojo!
Jeepers! I’d be lost without my daily dose!”
Spiderman
Poem Archive
April 2024 ~ The Zen of Tipping
April! Wow! It’s National Poetry Month! Plus April Fool’s and Earth Day! And we have National Sourdough Bread, No Housework and Rubber Eraser Days! And let's all participate in Tell Someone They’re Doing a Great [...]
March 2024 ~ Wonder Woman
Jeepers! This brilliant poem flows like a river. Such skillful alliteration and line breaks! And it makes me wonder about myths that would serve right now as healing agents for pain you and I hide [...]
February 2024 ~ Lines For the Fortune Cookies
O, Frank, my Totem Poet Animal, your words pinch me in the best way! When you say my failures make you love me even more, my head tilts and my tail wags. I love you [...]
January 2024 ~ Entrance
Our poet beautifully reminds us: step beyond wearying sameness and enter into enlarged vision (anyone can!) wherein we discover anew or see the familiar through fresh eyes. The impulse that drives an act of creative [...]
December 2023 – A Winter Dialogue
Year-End Blessing: May the ground of friendship take priority over position and open channels for creativity, discovery and rich, mutual learning. May we ignite the powers of love, consciousness, and community. May the light of [...]
November 2023 ~ Imagine You Are Light
I dedicate this poem to the primordial love and light within you. May all illusions of separation that ensnare and insulate us be healed. May we live as evidence of the heart’s generosity and compassion, [...]
October 2023 ~ Untitled
17 years ago I put poems in a flyer box in front of my house. 204 poems later, I’m still at it. I’m more grateful than I can say for poetry, poets, and to y'all [...]
September 2023 ~ Suggestion for a Day
Imagine this lovely poem answers a question: How do you meet a day? Drop into the body, connect with your senses, pay gentle attention. Let words emerge and fall onto the page. No critique. Avec [...]
August 2023 ~ What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
Meet Joshua's unnamed monster: A teacher asked her young students to draw monsters. She then made each child a toy based on their drawings. Reading about this, I remembered some of my own school teachers. [...]
July 2023 – The Summer Kitchen
This month's poem celebrates the magic and simplicity of an ordinary moment. Perhaps you, like me, will appreciate the poet's subtle hintabout what happens after they eat and talk. The Summer Kitchen In June’s high light [...]
June 2023 – A House Called Tomorrow
These children, learning together so earnestly with light shining upon them, touches me deeply. It brings to mind the basic goodness within us and our universe. In my house of tomorrow, every being knows this: [...]
May 2023 – Horses at Midnight Without a Moon
I love this poem, they way Jack Gilbert reminds me of the music in us, of beings that softly breath in the dark, doing no harm. Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Our heart wanders [...]
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