Night Upon the Prairie
My poem, Night Upon the Prairie, was published in Writing in a Woman's Voice poetry journal yesterday. While writing this I channeled singer/songwriter energies. If I had learned to play guitar, I think this one…
The Life Cycle of a Day
Bink and I walk outside a lot. We are blessed with a number of parks and nature sanctuaries in our area, and we know some of them quite well. This poem stemmed from a particular…
MelindaOctober 2, 2022
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
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
The Color of Swans
Hello out there! The blog has been quiet this summer, but I've been editing and submitting work to a wide range of literary journals. My submissions practice has been haphazard and sporadic over the past…
MelindaAugust 13, 2022
A Little Bullish
I know, I know. Much is not right here in the world. We conjure and raise up hatreds and fears born of misconceptions. We bow down to profit and convention instead of the goodness in…
MelindaJune 23, 2022
She Runs On
She Runs On and On, and On A whole lot of nothing happening here in the Department of Creation of New Poems, and so I sat down with DETERMINATION and began to write, the…
MelindaJune 20, 2022
Sixty Unplugged Minutes with my Love
I used a text to carve an island from a Thursday in two overloaded lives. I typed 10 to 11 Walk with me. Moose Hill. I meant Come. To the refuge down the road, the…
MelindaMay 5, 2022
All This Joy, All This Sorrow
Monday, March 28, morning. It’s snowing as I write this. Big, fluffy flakes that arrive past the date of our northern hemisphere Spring equinox. I wonder if they know they won't accumulate. If they did…
MelindaMarch 28, 2022