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Anxiety, the unwelcome house guest (who never seems to leave).

An older painting I did of Bink stimming at the beach. Agita Sometimes I think there four of us making a life inside this sweet gray house. Add the felines, we make a quirky…

MelindaFebruary 28, 2024

Family Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Writing

A Tale of Two Motorists

Poem for the Pissed-Off Driver I have a third eye that sees beyond your scowl, man-behind -the-wheel who couldn’t bear to wait when I slowed to turn right and so zoomed past, horn blaring,…

MelindaFebruary 20, 2024

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Still, After Years

This is the Love Poem, Mid-Life for Super Guy "Who, being loved, is poor?" --Oscar Wilde Remember the night I woke moaning, ankles on fire, some ghost gripping my arches, preventing even a twitch of…

MelindaFebruary 14, 2024

Death and Dying Family Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Writing

A Hole That Can’t Be Filled

Can you imagine being in such tremendous pain that the best path to freedom seems to be ending your life? Feeling so hopeless or worthless that you truly believe the world would be better off…

MelindaDecember 20, 2023

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Pippi

For the most part, my childhood nourished my creativity and sense of wonder. I feel so fortunate to have come up in a time before cell phones and social media. My knowledge of screens…

MelindaNovember 11, 2023

Death and Dying Family Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Rhyming to Death

I started writing poetry when I was 8 or 9. My first notebooks were full of rhyme, crude as it may have been. Over the years my writing morphed into rambling narrative free verse. From…

MelindaSeptember 20, 2023

Death and Dying Family Healing Parenting Writing

This Is What Really Happened Trigger warnings: Run-on sentences. Querulousness. Thirteen days ago I had my thumb joint reconstructed. This was elective and a long time coming—both carpo-metacarpals whittled down to bone on bone,…

MelindaJanuary 22, 2023

Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

Why Poetry Matters

I’m so pleased to share that my poem “Nobody” was published in Thimble Literary Journal today. You can read it by clicking on this link: https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2022/08/09/nobody/ My writing process is anything but logical. Sometimes it…

MelindaSeptember 24, 2022

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

BE EVER SO KIND

In my nearly 30 year journey parenting my child with special needs, I've had much time to reflect on the juxtaposition between How I Thought Things Would Go and How Things Have Gone. How Things…

MelindaSeptember 17, 2022

Family Love Nature Parenting Spirituality

The Visitor

In the dark, a baby fox hoists her short legs one by trembling one up the steep stairs, tripping the sensor light as she reaches the back deck in a sharp-eyed heap of gray…

MelindaSeptember 8, 2022

Anxiety, the unwelcome house guest (who never seems to leave).

Still, After Years

Rhyming to Death

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