Loose Leaf Notes

___Our World Tuesday  /   Wordless Wednesday

It’s like a sensitive person who takes on the problems of everyone around them I want to protect it keep its sunny side clean not wash out pans or wipe the floor with it But soon it’s bloated faded and stained I avoid contact or looking at it I give it a new lease in […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 26, 2017 with a selection of the below photos.  Nearly 200 people took part in a Woman’s March in Downtown Floyd on Saturday. It was a “Sister March,” held for those who were unable to attend the larger Washington D.C. Women’s March but still wanted […]

1. I got a massage on Monday. It included a head and face massage with oil. When it was over, I glanced in the mirror and, looking Phyllis Diller, heard myself say, “Did I just get a massage or a new hairdo!” 2. Maybe I looked like Tina Turner. 3. Channeling REM:  That’s me in […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper on January 19, 2017. Bill Spillman’s talent for writing poetry began in the 7th grade. He still remembers the first poem he wrote: The children came downstairs on Easter day. / They didn’t have a lot to say. / There lay the Easter baskets all nice […]

– Please look for a story and spread of photos in this week’s Floyd Press newspaper.

-The following first appeared in The Roanoke Times newspaper on January 17, 2017 HERE.  To those who insist that I get over Trump becoming our next president, I want to state that it’s not going to happen.  Never before have we had a president-elect so inexperienced, one whose election win was knowingly helped by a […]

This morning the moon glowed like a spotlight in a theater of sky It appeared like a trick that was pulled from a hat after being magically sawed in half ________Colleen Redman / Poets United

1. I love THIS paper cutting art that Sandy Kezzela posted last week, and I love the quote by the artist, who said, “Once a cut has been made, there’s no going back.” 2. Funny how flim flam, sham and scam are all related. 3. Buying a car without a roof rack is like buying […]

The Last Flower The Lunch Counter The Cold Shoulder Peep Holes of Winter ____________ Our World Tuesday

The bubbles in my bath are a universe of planets I’m a clumsy cosmic island making ripples in deep space putting out their starry lights bumping into cosmic order I’m splayed across dark matter like a swath of milky way ________Colleen Redman / Poets United

______Shadow Shot Sunday