Poets Rhyme Sugar with Teacup and Saucer. They alliterate Morning with Mug. My friends Katherine and Chelsea and I were recently asked to read our tea poems at a Ladies Tea, held at the Manor House Teas in Floyd. There were savories and sweets, sips of wine and tea, along with our poetic brews. Katherine read […]
1. Every time something goes wrong with my computer (which has happened a lot these days), I think it’s the Russians. 2. Quote seen on Facebook: Don’t trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar. 3. When one door closes another opens HERE. 4. Sometimes I get my blog categories “poetics” and “politics” mixed […]
When one door closes Another opens More Door HERE. / Our World Tuesday
Now that we’re home from our trip to Paris, Italy and England, I’ve been able to review some highlights and take a closer look at the pictures I took, like the ones posted here from Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s Garden. Our time there went by so fast. Now I treasure every picture that we managed […]
Crepe-myrtle is summer’s answer to lilacs in the spring Happy girls bouncing with berry-red pom poms shaking in the breeze while ironweed purple and goldenrod yellow in September school colors play the field ___________Colleen Redman / Poets United / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
David Frost was born at the Kench Hill Centre where the 2018 Inward Bound Mindfulness (iBme) UK teen retreat took place. I’ve been told that the main house was once a hospital. These days, it’s a venue for events – such as weddings and family reunions – and is an educational center focused on environmental […]
1. Today I stopped to smell the roses … in the English countryside. 2. I mistakenly thought I saw a child driving a car (because the driver’s seat is where the passenger seat is in the U.S.). Everywhere I went there were ripe blackberries to pick and the scent of farms. I passed streets with […]
As soon as we arrived in London, after a long day of travel from Italy, we headed straight for the pub. After finding no IPAs in France and only a couple of bottled ones in Italy, it was good to be in England and enjoy a really good beer, not to mention that everyone spoke […]
We are a crossword puzzle When I go down you go across but we meet at some point to make sense of each other Every word counts Every blank space is a mirror to see ourselves better _____________Colleen Redman / Poets United / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
The whole reason for putting the Cinque Terre on my bucket list was that years ago I read Shirley Maclaine’s book about hiking the Camino and entertained the idea of making that month-long pilgrimage someday. The reality is, I don’t have the stamina to pull something like that off. The idea of taking shorter hikes […]
1. Joe had his own bucket list moment when he jumped from a rock into the Mediterranean Sea at a beach cove we stumbled upon while biking. 2. After staying two nights in Monterosso and a night with our friends Rick and Donna in Santa Maria, we headed to Bonasolla, a small beach town that borders the […]
__ From my understanding, The Chalice (Calice) is a group of small communities near Santa Maria, Italy, set like a bowl within the surrounding mountains. This is one of the first sights we saw when we arrived via train from the Cinque Terra to visit our friends Rick and Donna, 16 Hands cofounders/studio potters who […]
