This morning I was stalking reading some of my favorite lovely blogs. My friend Gerry wrote a brilliant flash piece as a response to Brenda Warren's Sunday whirl. I read the word list and looked at the paintings in my bedroom for
A quiet sun-shiny Saturday evening and I’ve been writing a list of things I tend to avoid at all cost until the very last possible moment. I tend not to write lists because, actually, they get way out of
Mom ran over a pot hole with her ridiculously expensive and altogether too-much-car-for-a-78-million-yr-old-lady 2012 E 300 Mercedes and took a chunk out of the sidewall of one of the low profile tires. She was very nervous driving it in that
This week's bookshelf poetry challenge from the imaginative Lynn is to find a haiku. Since you probably already know that I juggle image and word equally. I decided to find something book-spiney-haiku-ish to describe myself. The title might be something like: Artist! You
Finally! Here in Vancouver we have to wait a little bit longer for our veggies. But today there is a yummy herb salad for lunch, all organically grown by me! I gathered different lettuce leaves, (romaine, red and green curly and butter), herbs
Me! This evening I wrote a slash-your-wrists-by free verse to a prompt on Rosemary Mint. My excuse is that the prompt was a wordle from Sylvia Plath
Sometimes I feel like finding happiness is hard. As hard as smashing into the granite rocks. I feel like I need to summon a force inside somewhere to find the happiness and that force is equal to the force it
Taking a 5 km walk along the Frazer River to the restaurant and then, walking the 5 km back. Good plan, don’t you think? Especially on a lovely day like today. Really wanted to be out in Kayaks too. Getting closer. I can
Trying something different. My friend Margo wrote about her friend Joseph and the idea of a "quantum" poem. Think I got the basic idea. Here it is: Sometimes I feel that my life is in not in my hands. I think
The thing to remember is that there are days like this and these are days that must happen. I’ve been thinking about life going on and paths taken and moments lived until