Hello, my dear digital friends! Trying my hand this week at a wee bit of sonnetry. I know traditional, metered, rhyming poetry is not always
fatal flaws
Greetings and salutations, my dear digital friends. Still traveling in Ireland with the fam for a few more days, so just a brief blurb regarding
more alone than me
Hello, my dear digital friends. Early post this week as my family is on holiday in Ireland for the next two weeks. What an amazing,
caught in the reeds
Hello, my dear digital friends… Our imaginations are very powerful things. With them, we can construct utterly false realities and scenarios that we may even
distant shore
Salutations, my dear digital friends! I lost a cousin a few years ago. He was 55 years old and simply died in his sleep. Not
our fandango
Greetings, my digital friends! It’s always interesting how a poem originates. Procol Harum’s 1967 smash-hit song “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was playing on Spotify
fur caught in brambles
Hello, my dear digital friends! I love to spend time thinking about poems I read. Don’t get me wrong. Like anyone else, I love emotional
to be
Welcome, my dear digital friends! Most weeks I post poetry that was written several months before. Saved for an occasion. Or compelled to be released
hushed anticipation
Hello and greetings, dear digital friends! For those of you of faith, may I extend a Happy Easter, Passover, and Ramadan to you. I’m sure
into nature i go
Welcome, my dear digital friends. Where do you find solace from loss? At some point in our lives, it’s likely we will deal with the
the church that burns in Corinth
Greetings & salutations, my dear digital friends! The two closing words in this week’s poem come from the Bible, specifically 1 Corinthians. Saint Paul is
e c h o e s
Welcome, digital friends! This week’s poem employs an allusion to Elpis, the Greek goddess/spirit of hope. For those not familiar with the myth of Pandora’s
chill of the sand on my feet
Hello and welcome, digital friends! This week’s poem was an exercise in writing for me. What does that mean, PS? I am one of those
of circles, of cycles
Hello, my dear digital friends! I am a big believer that love endures… that it survives all things, including time… and even death. For isn’t
the birds are all dead
Greetings and salutations, my dear digital friends! As so many of you know (and apparently like), I do enjoy writing sad or dark poetry on