When the weight comes down like an iron sleeve,
When your ribcage turns to lead,
Sky
Embarking
I’m thinking about journeys tonight, as I get ready for a drive to Yellowstone. And I’m thinking about the journeys we take in our relationships.
Organizing Words (I Sort Clutters of Paper)
The trouble is
Poetry Friday: The True Meaning of My Name
Listening to NPR this morning, I was caught by the phrase, “A woman discovers the true meaning of her name.” I asked the teens in my Young Writers Workshop at Bellevue College to write poems about that – but to write them in a language other than English.
Another Off-The-Cuff Poem
I’ll have to be careful, or I’ll end up making a habit of this lack of revision…
Chasing Joy
What if
Elusive joy slid
Like silk under my
Front door and out,
NaPoWriMo
I have not been doing NaPoWriMo because I haven’t had time. But this lack of poems is giving me a kind of malaise. So here’s one off-the-cuff.