1. Funny how a hit can be something hugely popular or a murder. 2. And a box can be a four-sided container or a hit. 3. Are poems like eggs? / Do I only have so many? / Am I born with all the poems / I’ll ever write inside me? / While new ideas […]
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Are poems like eggs? Do I only have so many? Am I born with all the poems I’ll ever write inside me? While new ideas swirl like a million unborn secrets Conceived but not delivered they tease but don’t get written ________________Colleen Redman / Poets United / Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 31, 2018. The third annual Little River Poetry Festival (LRPF) is just around the corner and has a new date. Located at Daniel Sowers’ On the Water Canoeing and Kayaking, the date has been changed from the second weekend in June to the third, June […]
1. My 7-year-old grandson Liam asks: Why is it cooler in the mountains? I thought it would be warmer because it’s closer to the sun. 2. Three wishes granted or three strikes you’re out? 3. Past Blog Posts with “Ball” in the titles: On the Ball, Have a Ball, Keep Your Eye on the Ball, The […]
In 2006 I wrote a post about my friend Jayn and her house called Home is Where the Art is. It began: Her art can’t be separated from the life she lives and the place she lives it from, an old Appalachian country home with a flower child touch and an artist’s manifested vision… See […]
A wildflower date night hike. Look at those fire pinks and sweet mountain laurel. / Our World Tuesday
The cowbirds crowd out the flock But catbirds sing in spite of that Beautiful solos that need no accompaniment Blank-checked tickets to all that is timeless They track the route back to my youth where the world was laid before me With their heralding of peace and maps of migration they return again like angels […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press with a larger selection of photos on May 31, 2018. 2018 class Valedictorian Shayley Martin addressed the crowd at the 56th Graduation Exercises at the Floyd County High School Friday evening. “From now on we can choose something we want to learn about and learn about it. […]
