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Hurrah! It's done! Thirty poems in thirty days! While singing last night at the drop in choir I go to, I wondered if I could possibl...

Last week I read a post about Opposite Poems by Alan J Write at Poetry Pizzazz . Referencing Paul Janeczko from 'How To Write Poetry,...

My eco anxiety is real and well founded. Yesterday we experienced record breaking blizzards at the end of April in two provinces who have el...

Only three more poems to go! Substitute outside, overcast sky inside, a tall, square vase of yellow tulips fills in for t...

Poetry Friday is hosted today by Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink . Check out  her page for links to more poets sharing work today. I...

My mother in law enjoyed dressing up in fancy clothes with matching baubles. After she died she left us with boxes of costume jewelry. Her ...

Last summer as our part of the planet was burning, I began to write a collection of poems connected to climate change. I have been working ...

Writing the story of my family's journey north, has set me to thinking about stories about my grandparents. Here is a picture of them wi...

Today is Earth Day.  Last Saturday, while Hoyoun, Ada and I were out walking, we admired a lot full of dandelions. It was eerily silent wi...

This poem was inspired while reading  My Dog is A Carrot  by John Hegley. He has six poems in it about glasses that tickled my fancy. While...

A Skinny is a short poem form that consists of eleven lines. The first and eleventh lines can be any length (although shorter lines are favo...

Poetry Friday is hosted today by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at The Poem Farm . Make sure you read her ongoing story poems about John and his dog...

This is part of collection of poems I've been working on since last summer. I'm not saying I'm finished with it. Desperate ...