Loose Leaf Notes

__________Wordless Wednesday

  Poetry sets a record It has a little black book It keeps no pets only secrets It lies about its age Poetry doesn’t do taxes It watches PBS It makes pledges to NPR But never writes the check ________Colleen Redman_____dVerse Poets Pub Read the first in this series, The Work Week, HERE.

We are abandoned here on this earth, left to fall irreparably in love with gravity’s garden, trying our lives to persuade a different ending or some other sense of time while our souls swagger towards eternity.~ Mary North The setting was so intimate – theater in the round in Blacksburg’s new Center for the Arts […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

1. Playing zombies today with my grandsons Liam and Bryce, 5 year-old Bryce says:  “This is a zombie reading a newspaper with no pants on. Throw a lawnmower at it! 2. I told Bryce that Row You’re Boat was his favorite song that I sang to him when he was a baby.  When I told […]

Poetry sleeps until noon It never uses an alarm It leaves crumbs when it eats in bed and only uses real butter Poetry goes out without make-up It’s rarely recognized It likes to people watch and ride on subways It’s lonely in a crowd Colleen Redman __________dVerse Poets Pub Read another poem from this series […]

This was the third year of Floydfest’s Teen Scene at the Imagine Tent and the first year that guest artist Josh Copus presented daily collage journaling workshops for teens throughout the four day festival. Teens were provided with blank journals, magazines and art supplies.  There was a color printer for printing out self-portraits, taken with […]

Scenes from the Teen Scene Imagine Tent at Floydfest. More HERE.  _________Shadow Shot Sunday

~ The following appeared in the August 1st issue of The Floyd Press At the close of Floydfest on Sunday, festival MC announced from the main stage that the festival would be extended, with music acts performing at various stages until 11:00 p.m. and food booths staying open past the traditional 6 p.m. closing.  Under […]