What the sellers left behind: three handmade wooden birdhouses, a flat, painted stone, the grime of an upended bucket, wild bushes, a leering gnome and a wind chime. What winter left behind: the crisp-crunch of tawny leaves and damp of thawing soil in spaces within sunlight’s reach, under shade’s spring recoil.
Category Archives: Poetry
Where do you find inspiration?
It may be no surprise from my videos that nature is my favorite source of inspiration! I try to get outside each day, even if it’s just playing in the yard with my kids, but I find forests, mountains, and bodies of water especially soothing, and, for whatever reason, they get my ideas churning. Ideally,Continue reading “Where do you find inspiration?”
Poem: Mauve Sky
Sun melts on mauve sky beyond its haze, winter storm motions cloud’s advance
Poem: Evergreen Growth
Prickly pine fingers tingling with grey snow shedding winter’s cling whispering knowledge to spring’s fresh buddings forming new life whole
Poem: Wanderer
Drive through northern desserts Blend farmland in feelings Head home by heading wayward Broken, longing for new meaning.
Poem: Almost Ocean
Pebbled Great Lake beach creamy clouds touch rippled waves dreams of motherland
Poem: Midwinter Clouds
sifting cerulean whispers written in the sky cotton candy wisps
Poem: Blurred Sunset
Hazy clouds drift, part, Lemon ink breaks through their waves, Echoes of the day
Poem: Winter Squall
I accidentally got caught in a bit of a blizzard while driving yesterday. I took the photo at a rural intersection along my route and then wrote this poem today. Silence simmers with suspense before the sky hurls cyclones of snow downward, spinning, they beat and moan against doors, the gale screaming its melancholy chord.Continue reading “Poem: Winter Squall”
Poem: Forgotten Basket
Crunch of frozen leaves Hibernate in winter soil Crisp with icicles
Words and Coffee Writing 