When you dance, I can really love…. and for those of us who love dancing it was a real LoveFest last night, dancing at the second annual (putting my wish in now) Neil Young Tribute Concert for Climate to benefit SustainFloyd, our local grassroots environmental group. Like last year, a host of friends played on […]
Whether its 4 agreements or 10 commandments I know the difference between right and wrong Whether it’s 4 and 20 blackbirds or 3 blind mice 12 steps or 3 strikes I don’t borrow words or follow crowds I don’t need to be told Whether it’s the yellow brick road or the long and winding one […]
-The following first appeared in the magazine Discover, inserted in the March 28, 2019 issue of The Floyd Press and other regional newspapers. When asked what brings people to Floyd, Pat Sharkey answered, “Honestly, it’s a feeling. People feel Floyd. There’s a sense of community here.” Six years ago, Sharkey was hired as the Floyd […]
1. I don’t know if writing is a meditation but it’s certainly a training of the mind’s muscle. 2. A certain amount of procrastination is like foreplay to a main event. 3. I resist pre-packaged lines over the mess of putting things in my own words. 4. I had a dream last night that I […]
A bright array on a gray day The tra la la of forsythia / Our World Tuesday
______Wordless Wednesday
Like a baseball player with warm-up tics I’ve been through all my favorite habits waiting for the pulse of a poem in play for the grip and crack of its contact I’ve been in the dugout too long and don’t expect a home-run I’d settle for a foul with potential I’d welcome a walk to […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 21, 2019. It was the 1st annual Kite Festival in Floyd, and “there will definitely be a second,” said Tracyann Costello, the Floyd County’s Parks and Recreation Authority (FCPRA) Chairperson. There was plenty of March wind, kites of all varieties and families having fun together […]
1. I call drinking craft beer at the local tavern on St. Patrick’s Day, a photo/journalist’s field study. 2. A New Theory on Time Indicates Present and Future Exist Simultaneously – It suggests that time does not PASS and that everything is ever-present. According to a scientist, everything that has happened, and everything that will […]
The moon is like a celebrity that’s fashionably late arriving on the red-carpet of the sun’s fiery blaze ________Colleen Redman / Our World Tuesda / dVerse Poets Pub
I had my first green beer on St. Patrick’s Day. I also ate green and gold chocolate shamrocks, homemade by Floyd’s Cocoa Mia. We spent Saturday night at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery’s McDaniel’s Tavern with the rest of the Irish loving town and people beyond. A friend greeted me by saying, “Erin Go Bragh.” “What, […]
Lime-green shamrock umbrellas Ireland loves me She loves me not She loves me I press them in journals like a monk preserving archives or twirl them like kilts on giggling girls In the name of the Mother the Sun and the Holy Wells Ireland is a green kite let go by the fairies Landed in […]
