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Self Portrait

" We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are." Anais Nin AS SOUP: I am mostly hearty kitchen-sink vegetable bean. With each tasting I re-season myself; more salt, a…

MelindaMay 19, 2017

Autism Bink Family Parenting Uncategorized Writing

Shirts must be pink, or occasionally "pool"... She speaks in code, Bink does, and I endeavor to decipher. She works rather hard, in her neuro-atypical way, at making sense of the world. As her mother…

MelindaMay 13, 2017

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Writing

7 AM ( more autism awareness)

7am I entered your room quietly, with loving stealth, stood inches from where you slept curled into the warmth of your sleep nest, pausing one round moment to take in the sight of you, just…

MelindaApril 20, 2017

Autism Bink Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Light it up blue?

Autism Awareness month is April, World Autism Awareness Day, April 2 and, in case the day lacks color, (as if any day with Autism in it could be dull), the mysterious Namers-of-Days-and-months have painted…

MelindaApril 3, 2017

Poem Poetry Singing Uncategorized Writing

I’m just the messenger

Lurleen Lumpkin, from The Simpsons Sometimes, it's a struggle to write. Lots of sometimes. There's so much inside that wants to come out! So, picture this: I'm at my desk, all serious-like, trying to…

MelindaMarch 28, 2017

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Alone, I am island

Photographer unknown. I am an unpopulated island in a teeming quicksilver sea. I am a sturdy outcropping, raw, rocky, ravaged by two thousand years of volcanoes, seismic shifts. I am a testimony to the chaos…

MelindaMarch 9, 2017

Poem Poetry Uncategorized Writing

Seeing Through

I am so pleased to share that the poem below was published on the Songs of Eretz Poetry Review yesterday! If you want to see the actual page with the Editor's choice of photo, and…

MelindaFebruary 10, 2017

Nature Uncategorized Writing

The Feather and the Leaf

Picture this: it was cold, and I stood among trees. Many, many trees. I looked up, and there they were. A feather and a leaf, floating through the air, not quite up or down…

MelindaJanuary 25, 2017

Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

My Calling

From an Inky Path writing prompt “ Writers Manifesto for Hard Times”, about finding your own unique contribution to addressing the challenges of our times. As I was finishing this, I received a call from…

MelindaJanuary 18, 2017

Autism Bink Nature Parenting Writing

Dear November

Dear November, It is a month of tributes to poetry, 30 poems in 30 days in some circles. So, being a bit amiss, Miss Construed, I write a letter instead. You are special…

MelindaNovember 4, 2016

Self Portrait

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