poetry

Poetry From MidLife

06.21.2010

You show me halves/Half smiles/Hints of what lies/half-buried…

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Description, or Do You See What I See

02.24.2010

That is the purpose of description, you know, to suck your reader into your mind’s eye, and spew out for their benefit exactly what you’re seeing. Some people are really good at it.   And some people, well, they merely suck. Which are you? Me? I fall somewhere in the middle, somewhere between not bad [...]

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Poetry from Midlife: Deep Bloom

02.08.2010

I want to live
right through to the end in full frontal
engagement, awake to everything.

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Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage

11.16.2009

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

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“Sometimes…”: a poem

09.16.2009

Sometimes/it is very lonely…

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I Come From Here: a poem

07.15.2009

I come from mailmen and factory workers. Fishermen and mapmakers. War veterans.
I come from stay at home mothers. Writers. Thinkers. Feminists. Nurses. Farm women.

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