1. A haiku a day keeps the “roses are red violets are blue” blues away. 2. Where do poems come from? Some lines just come and you follow them. Others you have to dig. 3. I use to wonder when I’d be too old to sit on the sidewalk. Now I know it’s when you […]
Spoonful of honey Bright sun in February Cream pours like snow falls Post notes: This is one more in my series of tea poems. You can read about how the teapoet series came about HERE. A little sip of teapoetry can be found HERE and HERE.
I wish all the billboards across the country read: “Give back the votes your brother stole” and the poets would shout from every street corner, “The emperor wears no clothes” … ~ Colleen So my poet friend Mara, a Hillary Clinton supporter, knew she might change her mind and vote for Barack Obama in the […]
1. It was a mother and daughter date of historic proportions. My friend Mara and her young daughter Kyla (pictured) attended Sunday’s pre-primary rally for Hillary Clinton, our country’s first female presidential candidate who has a chance of getting the Democratic nomination. 2. A crowd of nearly 2,000 took an hour to slowly file into […]
Whenever I look in my fridge, I think about The Newlywed Game and Bob Eubanks. Eubanks, the host of the 1960’s game show, asked contestants questions and couples had to guess what their mates said. There was one question I’ve never forgotten: What’s the oldest thing in your fridge? At the time I was a […]
When Deirdre from Writing Anam Cara tagged me to list three pieces of writing advice, I thought “only three?” Of course the real trick will be taking my own advice: 1. Commitment: Be prepared to spend an inordinate amount of time fiddling with words. Carry pen and paper with you everywhere, even to the mailbox. […]
1. I’ve been pruning little tea poems … origami notes … petals of the Orient …light enough to float. 2. I’ve also been expressing myself with valentines via conversation heart generators (like THIS one). See the heart I made for my friend Bonnie below. 3. Recently said to my sister Sherry while expressing my happiness […]
Taking my bath at night with the lights dimmed low, I notice that the veins in my hands have started to become dark and raised like my father’s were. When my house clothes get that rumpled lived-in look and I forget to brush my hair because I’m immersed in a project, I feel his undomesticated […]
Ceylon amber moon sipped to a crescent slips to the bottom of a bone china cup Post Note: You can read about the Teapoets Society Tea Party in which the above cup that belongs to my girlfriend Katherine was featured HERE.
The following was published in The Floyd Press on January 24, 2008. Bernie Coveney – who has played with Grammy award winner Emmylou Harris, contributed to the soundtrack of King of the Gypsies, and taught Robert Duval how to play guitar for his role in Tender Mercies – has just released a first CD […]
1. For some reason whenever the electric power goes out I begin to feel that my normal clothes look dirty and I wonder why I didn’t do a wash yesterday when I had the chance. When water doesn’t run freely from my faucets, I’m thirstier than normal and start to feel that I simply must […]
1. He tells me I’m sweet like the Princess in Aladdin. I say thank you because I figure it’s a compliment. 2. Strolling along Morning Dew, the dirt road I named after the Grateful Dead song, we picked up litter. “Do you see anything red?” he asks. “No,” I answer. I point to an old […]
