It was actually the Fairmount “Four” because one poet didn’t make it. I read as a featured poet, along with Sean Bowers, James Bane and Taz Waysweete at the bi-monthly poetry salon, held in the Norfolk home of poets Jack Callan and Judith Stevens. It was Mother’s Day and some of themes revolved around that, […]
I’ve been spending my mortality like rolling dice hoping for sixes but getting twos I’ve been present to my absence guarded by my silence You can’t even spot me walking to the mailbox Like a bird losing habitat I sing less and listen more I’m my father’s homebody and my mother’s skeptic floating through days […]
Honeymoon pink Spring popped the question Consummated the engagement for the promise of fruit _____Colleen Redman / Poets United
It starts with a C followed by an O U turns to D and ends up a zero __________Colleen Redman /Poets United
It dangles like a hangnail that hurts to write Brushes like a mystery up against me Like a thread through a needle stopped by a knot It pulls me like a craving for what I can’t live without ________Colleen Redman / Poets United
I left the dream to finish the poem Now the dream has dissolved like a memory that was stolen like a lesson that wasn’t learned like a life returned to dust ________Colleen Redman / Poets United
Sorrow is a beautiful country where you meet your destiny where your foundations of love hold immense treasure when you trust the lay of its land Because its depth is as far as its width and its jewel is disguised by darkness You have to dig deep to mine its value to bear and wear […]
Last ember of night unshaken by storm A warm and enduring kindle for dawn ________Colleen Redman / Poet United
I keep having to count and recount How many are we now? The math equals orphans like laundry on a line with no clothespins to hold us Now I am the oldest but 3rd in the line and separated by one from the other five Divided by death times who we miss with a common […]
The sky is the theater of the beach Every day is a new world that hasn’t been seen Every royal glimmer of sun that shimmers the shore is a boundless wealth won by everyone While clouds shift like scenes from an unfolding story time fills and empties wave after wave washing away every yesterday __________Colleen […]
Sun dried and eager heralds of spring A standing ovation of light overflowing _______Colleen Redman / Shadow Shot Sunday
Like a purple flock of drenched finches early blooming crocus hold tight to secrets _____Part 2 HERE /_____________Colleen Redman / Poets United
