Colder by the Lake

Poetry, Prompts and Challenges

Wonder Friends

I have a friend who knows the stars who speaks to ravens, chucks otters under chins, owns boots that walk…

Poetry

Poem: Threading Spring

Can you feel it coming, spring? threading life into soft winds, swirling seeds you cannot see. Do you hear the…

Poetry, Prompts and Challenges

Music walk

Here once more, still walking, decades later, alone by my request, to move along the water, difference now with music…

Prompts and Challenges

Word Challenges – Until you leave

You can needle me about it but I won’t reverse. I will ignore the jibe, refuse to cede, no…

Memoir, Prompts and Challenges

My mother instilled in us a way of approaching life that requires a pre-step, a stalling of your forward movement, just to make sure everything is really OK, before you bound ahead with the vigor and joy you’re entitled to.

Words in Motion

Things I Found in the Hedge

The latest Words in Motion is this lilting piece of visual beauty, by Kathryn (Kate) Darnell, who comes to poetry…

Poetry

Unremembered

Sun this morning, squinting into weak, strange light, unremembered, winter air dropping freeze upon the lake. Even golden beams, as…

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What A Book Should Be

The Alpha Girls

Poem: Coiled

Things I Found in the Hedge

Motherhood: ‘I am a shop’

‘Pick a Topic, Get a Poem’

Words in Motion: Crossroads

The Tropics in New York

Words in Motion: Loving as we age

Charles Bukowski: Beer

Video Poem: Malta