The field lies fallow Words are buried like seed, I pray Dreams are frayed at their edges This poem is late like a loved one passed on A treasured habit changing its form I hold it like a memory close to my chest A lost locket with a missing chain I cross my fingers and […]
A Spy Code A Poet’s MO to link and illuminate to dream while awake It’s an artful convergence of description and truth A superimposition of almost and absolute ________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
The dark has already come How much more will it take? The seeds have been dropped But are buried Our world is bent over Like a sunflower that’s lost its glory But our poet’s eye widens Our resolve is not blurry This dark wears a black mask But we still see ___________Colleen Redman dVerse Poets […]
It was a night of Irish poetry and music at The Floyd Country Store on Wednesday with poet Katherine Chantal. Music by Katherine Wiley on fiddle, David Scheim on harp and piano and Julian Pecoraro (Wiley’s son) on cello set the scene and complimented Katherine’s readings. Katherine read from her latest book Irish Pilgrimage: Third […]
He told me to turn my head from right to left during TV commercials that I don’t watch But there are resting stops and skips in the record intermissions and intentions that break up the day I want to hope for improvements but have no agendas want to love what I have and whatever comes […]
It’s the 10th annual Little River Poetry Festival in the meadow on Thunderstruck Road. Katherine and I opened the festival with a new Soulful Aging Tour call-and-response reading titled Ars Poetica. Poems about poems and writing poems was inspired by the 19 century Roman poet Horace who wrote a long poem called Ars Poetica, which […]
The moon grew faint like a broken heart pumping light as it turned on and off The clouds closed like curtains providing privacy before its glow was exposed as half the moon it used to be __________Colleen Redman / dVerse Poets Pub / Poets and Storytellers United
The Soulful Aging Poetry Tour is back. Katherine Chantal and I will be opening the 10th annual Little River Poetry Festival in the meadow where On the Water was located (2053 Thunderstruck Rd.) on Friday at 2:00 with a back and forth duo reading titled Ars Poetica. Latin for “The Art of Poetry,” Ars Poetica […]
Thanks to everyone who came out to the book launch of my new poetry book Mining the Gold of the Inner Life at The Book House on Sunday. The Book House is our year-old independent book store with three sprawling floors of new and used books, art supplies, stationary, a café, a children’s treehouse room, […]
Life is a stage for the parts that we play for critics and fans and plots that take turns With no laugh tracks no Hollywood sets with no written scripts it’s all hit or miss It’s all material Re-runs and sequels There are no rehearsals No second takes Sometimes we wing it Sometimes we practice […]
Mining the Gold of the Inner Life: My sister Sherry posted this picture after receiving my new poetry book from Amazon (also available locally at The Book House, The Harvest Moon and The Floyd Country Store). She set it against the backdrop of our family of nine siblings, the roots foundation where it all started, […]
I clean the stove with my mother We weed the garden together I feel every ache as I bend and stoop like she used to Her things speak for her in silent voice A bread knife A tulip print The porcelain cup that I took from her house before it was emptied and sold Not […]
