Maybe when your gone my apron will turn up It’s been lost since you took the kitchen apart and put in new countertops Maybe when your gone I’ll dream of being lost I’ll drink wine right out of the bottle go to the wrong dentist and get tired of playing Scrabble Maybe I’ll buy myself […]
Alwyn Moss, my longtime dear friend, poet, animal rights activist, environmentalist, author, artist, Rudolf Steiner kindergarten teacher and more passed from this world two years ago on Earth Day Eve. In honor of her on Earth Day, I’m posting her poem “First Tree,” which was the only tree on the busy New York […]
Moon empties the sun’s hot plate bite by bite it swallows the light Bit by bit it moves like a ship crossing the sun’s waves of blaze __________ Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
An unjust sentence A prison of silence A dead dream in a graveyard of lost delight A strangled beauty A soul of poverty A homeless angel in a starless night _____Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United /dVerse Poets Pub
Like loved but abandoned children too many to remember their names Like too many clothes in a closet without places to go to wear them What is my quota? How is one not like another? What are they for? Strewn or stored Fuel for fire Enough to wallpaper rooms But how do I explain an […]
Flowers are fragile They’re pretty and they mean well But they don’t last long in vases Uprooted from their roots they can’t be put back After being picked they’re the same but different Their petals droop like forlorn faces The tender ties of their lives are cut short Flowers don’t last long on kitchen tables […]
My Soulful Aging Tour poetry partner Katherine and I were invited by the Artemis Journal editor Jeri Rogers to read our poetry at the Taubman Museum for Roanoke Arts Pop! yesterday. Artemis is a locally-based art and literary journal that features artists and writers from the Blue Ridge and beyond, including fledging poets and artists, […]
Happy is a carrot on a stick An idealistic flip of a switch It’s child’s play A coin toss wager A joker in a deck Happiness is what you make it An easy fix that’s worth it It’s a promise you can’t keep that’s closer than you think It’s never the ever after It’s a […]
We spin the world in our own image where beliefs are contagious and reality is consensus We tilt its meaning in our own direction We see what we want to see Tangled together we face each other until we unlearn the teachings and the shortcuts to living until we forge our own way _______Colleen Redman […]
Joey Klein took his time to make me his valentine He drew a heart and said, “That’s a start Now we’ll never be apart”
I. Moon Drowning Swallowed whole in one gulp by a wave of clouds the moon was engulfed II. Magic Trick Behind a curtain of fog the moon’s half cup flipped face-down by sun-up __________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
I start with a bird and wait for a song I tap a nerve and blur a crossed line I recite the alphabet and give up logic open my notebook and lift a veil I don’t believe everything I’ve heard I write first hand in my own words I wait for an opening let a […]
