Leaves on trees bright flags in sunlight ride October’s fast parade Waving hands flash diamond facets Marching bands blow golden trumpets It’s a mirror ball of fall’s inaugural in praise of living a Sufi spin ___________________ Colleen Redman – dVerse poets pub
It’s an honor to have my photograph included as one of the 75 black and white portraits featured in A Portrait of Floyd, a new Jacksonville Center exhibit featuring photographs from a random photo shoot on the streets of Floyd, taken by Norfolk photographer Glen McClure last April. At the Meet the Artist Reception last […]
Winter Spring Summer Fall like a board game wheel spin around Dizzying colors turn and return We race to keep pace Greedy to play _________________ Shadow Shot Sunday
1. The first thing I said upon waking Monday morning was, “the party’s over,” meaning THIS. 2. Then I rolled over onto a token from Chuck E. Cheese. 3. I wonder if Chuck E. Cheese was named after the same guy in THIS Rickey Lee Jones song. 4. I did some research and wasn’t able […]
Wordless Wednesday
The moon last night looked like a headless pumpkin a rotting, light-filled jack-o-lantern Or a wheel of cheddar with a missing corner about to roll off the counter into night’s black abyss ___________________________ Colleen Redman / dVerse Poet’s Pub
~The following was published in The Floyd Press on October 4, 2012 and on the paper’s webpage HERE. The results of an April photo shoot on the streets of downtown Floyd and beyond will be exhibited at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts from October 5th to November 24th in a show titled A Portrait […]
It was the Break-up Bash at the Sun Hall for the ALLiENS, the celebrated World Groove band based out of Floyd. They never said why they were breaking up. I tried not to think about that. I was too busy dancing and taking pictures and video clips for one of the band member’s webpage in […]
My cousin’s daughter who carries my namesake, Colleen, got married in Ireland this summer. Her uncle, my cousin Gerry, posted photos on Facebook of the wedding, along with pictures of his visits to the town our grandmother was born in, Youghal, County Cork, and Roscrea, Tipperary, where our great-grandfather was born. Gerry’s postings prompted me […]
1. I think of a life like I think of a poem. The beginning is important. It should say something meaningful and have some resolution at the end. 2. Sometimes I feel guilty that my sisters can’t grow their nails and I have to cut mine because they get so long. 3. I wonder if […]
A single plucked flower on a black lake of night floats in a garden of starlight ______________________ Colleen Redman 9/30/2012 dVerse poet’s pub
