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New Poem Published

I’m pleased that one of my pieces, “Honeymoon” was just published in Last Stanza Poetry Journal. The journal is available in hardcover, softcover, and on Kindle. Last Stanza is a beautiful journal, so if you’ve…

MelindaApril 23, 2024

Poem Poetry Writing

Ode to a Vessel

Dear Useful Thing You are more than receptacle, a pleasing weight in my cupped hands. You’re the one I reach for, mornings when I stumble into kitchen, into waking, into day, and if I…

MelindaApril 20, 2024

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry

These Monikered Months

A month of daffodils is upon us. Yay, spring!! April has been branded both Autism Awareness Month and National Poetry Month. Here you go, then, a post that covers both. I’ve shared this poem before,…

MelindaApril 2, 2024

Family Love Nature Parenting Poem Poetry

Farther

I’m so pleased that my poem, “Farther”, which I share with you below, was just published in the Spring 2024 issue of Metonym Literary Journal. Metonym is a print journal, available for sale through their…

MelindaMarch 14, 2024

Autism Bink Family Healing Hope Love Parenting Poetry Writing

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

Art Family Hope Love Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

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 Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

The Continuing Saga of Little Stream

A 2022 Story Part 11 You can read part 10 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/little-stream-an…22-story-part-10 Part 11 “Lily Pond?” Little Stream called out again and again without answer into the bright air. Her voice was thin and…

MelindaFebruary 7, 2024

Death and Dying Healing Hope Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Old into New

The Boathouses, Acrylic on canvas by Melinda Coppola Natura Illustratio Nature is a picture book of wisdom and example, an illustrated guide to how we could arrive, and live, and die. Take, for…

MelindaJanuary 2, 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

New Poem Published

Ode to a Vessel

These Monikered Months

Farther

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

Still, After Years

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