-The following 2017 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – This morning the moon glowed like a spotlight in a theater of sky. It appeared like a trick that […]
Glass ball ornament in a string of lights sky Punch bowl moon for auld lang syne ______________Colleen Redman / Poets United
1. Naughty or nice? 2. We were greeted on Christmas Eve by our grand elves with nerf guns that were traded for lightsabers. Luckily, the force was with us and Santa and Christmas prevailed. – More from When Santa Was Taken as a Human Hostage HERE. 3. Our grandsons and Joe and I figured out […]
_____Wordless Wednesday
– Most of the following first appeared in The Floyd Press over the holiday season. The Back Porch Cloggers performed some dance moves in front of the County Courthouse. The Daughters of the Revolution rode their float dressed in period attire. The Kazim Klowns showed off their clowning antics as they passed parade goers. This young […]
We were greeted on Christmas Eve by our grand elves with nerf guns. Nerf guns were traded for lightsabers. Luckily, the force was with us and Santa and Christmas prevailed. I call this one Secret Stocking Santa. I call this one Touch Down! Joe and I posed by the tree to prove we were there. […]
A sleigh of moon filling with light delivering stars all in one night ________Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
Merry Christmas!
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 21, 2017. “What color bow do you want?” Jean Woods asked a young shopper at the Perfect Gift Shop in downtown Floyd. It was one week before Christmas Eve and there was a line of children, ages 4 – 16, outside the door waiting to […]
1. Tea actually is my cup of tea 2. I think it’s fitting that “tea” and “poetry” rhyme. 3. Poets rhyme sugar / with teacup and saucer / They alliterate morning / with mug. 4. When someone in your house gets a cold and the contagion is all around you and you’re already feeling it […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 7, 2017. Kari Thomas Kovick’s new CD, “It’s You I Like,” delivers just the right mix of playful fun and positive messages to foster inner-resiliency in children. Produced by Ken Whitely – a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and performer from Toronto – the CD features Kovick’s […]
The news is like a burning building that I crane my neck to see Every couple of hours I check how far it’s spread But I also want to turn my head I want to grab the matches out of arsonists hands and stomp the engulfed ground we all stand on I want our lives […]
