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The Turning

Gratitude for Autumn Leaves, Walking Today, in my silence, I can hear late September speaking with New England tongues to my open hands. Gratitude blossoms in colors; green and yellow, early russet and flaming orange.…

MelindaSeptember 30, 2024

Family Love Parenting Poem Uncategorized Women's Issues Writing

Oh, baby!

I've just had five poems published in the inaugural issue of The Turning Leaf Journal. Here's one of them. I wrote this the same day I went through a few old hat boxes in my…

MelindaJune 3, 2024

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Mutha

I’m so pleased to share two poems that were published today in Mutha Magazine. These two are part of the full-length poetry book I’ve been working on for years. I finally finished the manuscript in January,…

MelindaMay 23, 2024

Autism Bink Family Love Mindfulness Parenting

Quiet Dreamy Girl Noises

Silver Linings We are looping familiar ground, the houses predictable, almost dear. Across the way, an imposing home and its four outbuildings spreads along what used to be seven individual yards. The main house seems…

MelindaMay 2, 2024

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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

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In the Pink

"Fruits on Pink" by Bink She begins. First, there is pink. Well...vivid electric magenta is more apt. She pushes the frayed brush into the water jar, hitting the bottom too hard. Taps out a neurodivergent…

MelindaMarch 7, 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 Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

Little Stream and Wee Lily Pond ( A 2022 story, part 10)

A 2022 Story You can read part 9 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-9/ Part 10 It was dark, so very dark. Moonless and sunless. In a tunnel of deafening noise Little Stream’s watery body rolled and…

MelindaDecember 15, 2023

Hope Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

Grandma Moses Speaks to My Lengthening Years

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, aka Grandma Moses, is one of my inspirations. I do enjoy the quiet beauty of her landscapes that hearken back to what many consider simpler times, but what really captivates me…

MelindaOctober 10, 2023

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Oh, baby!

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In the Pink

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