Category: Poetry

  • Shift

    Mandy Smith, proprietress of Flora Phenomena and at the present moment invited me on a Blog Tour. The idea is for an artist to answer questions about their creative process and then introduce three-four kindred spirits and ask them to do the same.  A play-it-forward game of connection and inspiration. Thank you, Mandy for sharing your earthy sun-drenched world and inviting the…

  • Becoming

    The truth. Dumbledore sighed. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution. ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone This person really wanted to be included in my previous post on self portraits. She illustrates a mirror shot, the beauty of cropping, and what happens when you lose the…

  • Everyone’s Got Her Basket                   — a poem by Colleen Wainwright [a poem about grace] Everyone has her basket. And in that basket are all the things a body gets in a lifetime: The long legs the natural grace The way with words or people or numbers or animals The force field that makes money or…

  • Blessings

    The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog by Alicia Ostriker To be blessed said the old woman is to live and work so hard God’s love washes right through you like milk through a cow To be blessed said the dark red tulip is to knock their eyes out with the…