Christmas is a time of redemption;perhaps because the celebration beganwith the birth of Christ,the one meant to redeem us all.It certainly has evolved from its holy origins. The Grinch or…
Prometheus gave us a great gift,fire to spur mankind forward.We say we need to light a fire under someoneto get them motivated,or that they are on firewhen they speed forward.I…
I rarely hear a love songand think it’s from me to you.I don’t know why.Maybe I’m just different ormaybe it’s because I write love songs for youall the time.I used…
For twenty years we were strangers,ships passing in the night,always nearby but never actually meeting.A real life version of “Sleepless in Seattle.”Born the same year, same town, same hospital.Years later…
I was ten when my grandmother died.They told me grandma was in heaven,she wasn’t sick anymore, and that she was watching over me.Devastated by the loss,I sat outside on the…
I’ve made it through the first fifth of Poetry month and the PAD challenge, so far, so good. Today’s prompt was to write a “minimal” poem, and you can’t get…
I met The Beatles long beforeI met my husband,and since my husband and Ihave known each other for 50 years,that’s saying something.In both cases, it was love at first sight.They…
It’s been a while since I wrote a sonnet—rhyme and meter are tricky, and I’m no Shakespeare—but occasionally I like to try writing form poetry. I thought what better time…
Across the bedroom a squirrel with a fluffy tail sits on a stump. It holds a rose, lost in peaceful thought. Its light shines from within, calming in the dark,…
