This is how I get my psychedelics these days. Immersion art Where does the paint end and I start? What’s it like to sit in Van Gogh Chair? Not like the Three Bears I’ve always liked Van Gogh’s flowers more than his potato eaters His “flaming flowers that brightly blaze and swirling clouds in violet […]
Squirrels drop nuts on the woodshed’s tin roof as if dotting exclamations for your Virgo birthday Butterflies land on zinnias while spiders start their webs spinning quiet rhythms for the changing of seasons And we are girls passing notes that have grown into poems We are mothers in rocking chairs holding loved memories close Some […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 26, 2021. Set along Greasy Creek on Burnette Farm in Willis, Floyd Yoga Jam is amping up for its tenth year, Sept. 2-5, with a “Bloom” theme accompanying the festival’s full schedule of yoga, wellness workshops, music, dance, art and children’s activities. “The idea is […]
Dale Thompson and his sister Diane Midkiff welcomed a crowd to the 14th Annual Floyd County Tractor Fun Run Saturday morning at the Thompson family farm on Christiansburg Pike. “This is going to be a good ride,” Thompson said about the 35-mile tractor run that winds through downtown Floyd and scenic roads in the county. […]
1. The older I get, the more I talk aloud to myself, but it recently occurred to me that the older I get the more loved ones I have that have passed on, so maybe I’m talking to them. 2. “I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We […]
A kaleidoscope of color A pollinator’s holy grail Monarchs reign Swallowtails set sail Bees buzz where ever they please ________________Our World Tuesday
X marks the spot of exaggerated thoughts and a plural of cells that float outside my body I hid under the bed seeking the darkness not wanting to be seen at four-years-old The tomb is a womb I know I’ll return to I’ll scratch poetry on the walls like a cave-dweller marks the maze of […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 19, 2021. Hilda Collins, owner of Nonnie’s Antiques and Collectibles, is about to hang her business sign in front of the Lineberry Building on Locust Street where her new shop is located. Collins, who grew up in the county, has been “junking at yard sales” […]
1. The truth slept but had a dream, a causality count of a world changed. 2. A poem is a dream that’s willed into being / A dream just shows up and writes itself / When dreams are absent / a poem can be imagined / When pens are inkless / a dream spells it […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press. Friends, colleagues and business owners turned-out for Pat Sharkey’s retirement party Friday, July 30, at the Jessie Peterman Library to celebrate Pat and her achievements during her eight-year tenure as Floyd’s first tourism director. Sharkey is pictured here with Bell Gallery & Garden business owners Joanne and […]
A poem is a dream that’s willed into being A dream just shows up and writes itself When dreams are absent a poem can be imagined When pens are inkless a dream spells it out Both emerge from the subconscious A poem takes some coaxing A dream is unsigned They both break barriers revealing the […]
1. You might be looking at the couple making out in the center of this video clip, but I’m looking just to the right of that, at my husband Joe (in the blue shirt) dancing. 2. It was a Roanoke block party actually with the block blocked off in honor of Jerry Garcia’s birthday. 3. […]
