One day we will tell her that she was named after the magnolia tree, we could see from the window in our first apartment Tell her that even though our first home wasn’t picturesque we made beautiful memories with what we had because what we…

Text Prompt Write a poem exploring the word normal. Nothing Normal All life came to a halt one day but that has happened before but this time it was not threat of King Kong Dracula or Frankenstein- Nor a bomb or missile attack Nor was…

Book to Poem   Four city slickers canoe The Cahulawassee River In the northwest Georgia wilderness.   An encounter with mountain men Leads to sodomy and murder, what then?   Four city slickers canoe The Cahulawassee River In the northwest Georgia wilderness.   The four…

Sourdough The single cloud touching the skyscraper looks like a sourdough at Mr Periwinkle’s storefront Hour 11 @varenyas

  The snow comes White Like little pearly paws It becomes a blanket For a cat The cat 9-lives Snow, less Returning

Strength is not always loud The fortitude of one’s Body or how long You can  E N D U R E Sometimes Strength is in the  B   R E   A   K     I N   G       The Choosing to…

Sometimes I want To threaten someone With an, “I’ll go Vegas on your ass!” It’s not a threat, But it isn’t a promise.   Growing up in Vegas, You knew parking lots And movie theatres.   You knew mesa’s And hot leather seats.   You…

Snow covered wood chips Chill in the air Beneath the structure A gray fox Children and teachers Observe from a distance Filled with awe and caution Of the gray fox

  I like that story where a visitor is told The universe is a blanket spread above us as a tent   Over time the fires warmed us sent up their sparks to burn small holes through which the bright   light of the world…

Through the window , we see life, asleep and cold world seems like an ice berg half alive static silent still though movement is visible but pending doom so far away it seems cannot zoom The bridge connects,reflects a presence but a mystery profound, on…