Sometimes you just need to be taught What you took on by osmosis From words, meals and meetings Isn’t the only way Or even the best way To speak, eat, commune Twenty eight days with little assignments with a book list and companions who didn’t…

I want to fall to see where it takes me Instead I scurry to the next rock and leap on faith hoping it will contain me for today

My eyes play tricks on me more often than they used to. Let’s get real — it’s probably my brain playing the trickster, not my doing-the-best-they-can peepers. Is this poetry prompt a mailbox? I asked my husband, warming up to the possibility of writing that…

Text Prompt Write a poem about walking without ever using the world walking in it.   Where do you go when anywhere will do? Lost in the moment. Knowing it’s worth it to follow your shadow. Inside you keep pushing for just a bit more….

When you’re footloose and fancy free Do a little shuffling off to Buffalo with me. If perhaps you’re want to wend or wander, Along a trail that gives you much to ponder.   We’ll promenade or per chance take a stroll. Along Broadway’s Boulevard, away…

You’ll forgive me if I appear to lack the gravity expected of a professional author I’ll have you know I take my craft as seriously as sin And still despite my publications and certifications for the countless ways I’ve been asked “What is a poem?” the…

her broad hips carry a child on each side keeping their place in line behind other mothers and fathers grands and great grands and ahead of the same each step forward searching for the promise of safety, of security of home while leaving the absence…

ABANDONED RINGS      (hour 6)   Why did they take them off, those wedding rings?  There’s two sets – gold and thin, piled together on the forest green placemat, alongside the glass vase with dusty eucalyptus. The candle is not lit.  The coaster has no wine…

It will all come together But you have to begin. Believe in yourself You can do this, my friend. Allow yourself freedom Recognize the need. Feel in your soul Burning hunger and greed. Not for fortune not fame Should you desire or seek. But a…

Text Prompt You find a time capsule buried in the backyard of your new home (or anywhere else, depends on you). What’s in it? How old is it or its probable story is up to the poet.   In the backyard, behind the apple tree,…