In memory of Gordon Lightfoot passing.
From here on in:soaring
Category: Poetry
Honestly
Learning to love myself and realize that it isn’t always your loss when it hurts; sometimes people can make you forget the good in yourself.
Song my mother sang
When babe in arms
My mother sang to me
the land of body is tired and needs to rest from entertaining immature tourists
I write of smells, cutaneous sensations, truth. Sometimes the Natural World is a place of rage, power, reprieve, and wonder.
Weather Map
A work of evocative impressionism rooted in reality and history but suffused through the psyche to be dream-like.
Dear G
Dear G
You’ve asked me what makes a poet
Hope
“Hope” is a poem that focuses on dealing with life challenges plus having the faith and belief that things will change for the better.
Marilyn In Miles
“Marilyn In Miles” is my attempt to process the loss of my stepmother, Marilyn, who died from cancer last summer.
To Cody
Reflecting on myths and stories and how they inform how we think about things, with a curiosity about time and how it passes.
This Time of Year
A reflective piece of poetry, that asks the what-ifs of this life, pondering the duality of life and death and missed opportunities.
Fog
A poem about disinformation
Please
please do not bleed,
not right now.
I Dreamed I Closed My Eyes Forever
This is a poem about a dream I really had.
A Second Life
Much will be forgiven those on whom not much has dawned. But let me ask: How could you not see the signs? What with the oceans rising…
We Swamp Creatures
The joys, or otherwise, of the swamp.
Journal Entry: Germination
Inspired by the gift of tomato seeds. Associative and journaling techniques were used to flesh out some kind of meaning.