I once loved an apple tree filled with red fruit in a hidden orchard in Eden But now the maple trees have grown large They block out the sun There’s no room to stretch Now the wind has downed limbs I’ve gone porous and gray Now the land around me is not the same New […]
At home in the sky It dims its shine From a bold glow A hint of hue Reveals the pale dreamy cap of an off-duty moon ______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
My skin is a mirror As above so below A galaxy of light years Revealing a cosmos Moons and stars Blemishes and freckles Black holes and red suns in new constellations A timeless oracle Marked by the past Connecting the dots of a body in orbit Exposed to the elements Held together by breath A […]
Read Quantum Physics theory Underline the best parts Find poems in lost places Wear a leopard skin pillbox hat Let go of a goal Loosen a knot Count your lucky stars Get lost in art Look both ways Carry your weight Clear the dust and keep a promise ________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United / […]
That’s the way I introduced my friend Katherine and myself at the Death Class Poetry Reading that we presented at Yoga Jam 2023. She is a Life Passage Ceremonialist who leans towards the study of the spiritual masters, like the Dali Lama. I am more drawn to the work of master mythologist and Irish wise […]
Go to the beach Wear purple Sit on a sidewalk Skip to the mailbox Dance to Steve Winwood’s Higher Love Rub a genie’s lamp Buy postage stamps with tulips on them Color in your doodles with highlighter pens Dream about roses Press four-leaf clovers Kiss and tell the whole truth _____________Colleen Redman / Poets and […]
That’s what the Old Time music player told the audience at the end of his band’s set in the Community Building at the 18th annual Meadows of Dan Folk Festival. He was talking about us, ten poets ready to take the Open Mic stage to read poetry in tribute to the Mountain at Lovers Leap, […]
Plant a Rose of Sharon Wear a flower in your hair Put sun-dried tomatoes and raisins in your pasta Put lavender on your pillow case Play your favorite Lou Reed song Buy a silk nightshirt from Ebay Ponder the wild blue yonder Listen to children play ____________________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
-For Joe I walked through my school days with my eyes open waiting for the spell of sleep to be broken When Snow White was left out in the cold and everyone thought the emperor wore clothes I left the breadcrumbs I ate the apple I kissed the frog and sewed a shadow without pricking […]
Barbie was born in 1959 She was the first grown-up that I saw naked when I was a girl who still played with dolls that drank from milk bottles and wet their diapers After that shock we learned the term ‘anatomically correct’ We looked down Ken’s pants and saw that he wasn’t It didn’t seem […]
Punch it like a time clock Time it like boiled eggs Mix yesterday’s dream with a sleight of hand Cross your T’s and say abracadabra Pull a rabbit out of a stranger’s hat _______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
“The world that you see outside you is the state of your own nervous system. It’s because you have senses that the sky is blue, that the sun is light and that vibrations in the air are sound. You turn them into color, light and sound.” – Alan Watts Scientists invent words to describe that […]
