Category: Poetry

Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month. 4

Guest Poem: Heliotropism

Heliotropism Yesterday I drove by fields of sunflowers, their happy faces tracking the constant sun. All day, the stems, the east-facing halves, grow and lengthen, bending their flower heads in time with the westward-moving light. All night, their west sides...

Poem: Broken Wings 6

Poem: Broken Wings

Thank you for stopping by. “Drifting” can now be found in my poetry collection “Origami Stars and Hot Air Moon” published by Winter Goose Publishing. For links to poetry prompts, or if you missed out on what I’m doing for...

Guest Poem: Outside 4

Guest Poem: Outside

Outside   I’m still trying to teach myself not to choke up when I think of you I wanted to be your universe you resigned to let me be a moon a satellite an alien visitor I could not stay...

Poem: Absence 8

Poem: Absence

Absence The day you leave your job, will be the day everyone expresses how much they appreciated you. Two weeks after you break up will be the day your ex realizes how much you mean to them. And the day...

Guest Poem: Fire and Ice 2

Guest Poem: Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice Deteriorated, it wasn’t working anymore, hadn’t worked for a long time. I did all I could. Days pass, clear, windy. Worn ways discarded, not an easy process To let go of the friendly, broken old. But stability,...