A More Positive Perspective

The April challenge of writing a poem a day, and writing from A to Z, was a resounding success in 2023!

Let’s throw some words at the fridge and see what sticks…

It’s not you, it’s me. Well, maybe it’s both of us. Reading and enjoying poetry takes a little effort on the part of the reader, but should not feel like an onerous chore.

Bring the words to life and make them dance!

Selma Martin’s debut book of poetry, In the Shadow of Rainbows, is the work of a talented and empathetic poet.

A Deceptively simple “little song.”

And How to Critique a Poem

An homage to childlike imagination and determination, and the certainty we had as kids that we could solve any problem, given paper, paste, popsicles, and other “found objects.” With that, I give you The Jolly Zeugma – a Z word – and wish you a Happy National Poetry Mon…

A heartfelt “yes” is a wonderful thing, but it’s not always freely given.

Well behaved women seldom make history, but are often damned by it.

Shells tell countless tales before becoming grains of sand to make a beach, to drift into a dune, and everything we are is built upon the bones and shells crushed beneath the weight of a billion stories.