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…
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
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
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
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
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 Nation
Autism Nation My same different daughter at twenty three years, is riddled with anxiety and complicated fears Loose beads with holes -- they should be on a string! -- and thunder and lightening, that power…
MelindaSeptember 27, 2016
Love letter to the morning
Love Letter to the Morning There is much they don’t know. Our history, the ways we cleaved together and then peeled apart. How you went on without me, blithely, and I mourned you even when…
MelindaSeptember 14, 2016