Haiku

I’ve been inspired to write a little haiku…defined technically by 3 lines, beats 5, 7, 5, but in America more loosely defined as a 3 line poem with less then 17 syllables, usually the middle line being the longest…this is 2 haiku, but it almost fits as one long poem too…
 Memories alight
in an unfettered mind
frozen [...]

The Witching Hour

 
 
So, I’ve decided that since I do so much reading, I’m going to start keeping you all up to date on what I am reading and give you little “mini-reviews”!  This sounds like fun to me, and I hope that you will enjoy reading about what I’m reading about…
 
I am currently in the middle of [...]

Ani D!!!!!!!!!

I am SOOO excited!  In just a few days, I will be seeing my favorite artist, Ani Difranco, live and in concert at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.  I saw Ben Folds (also awesome) there not too long ago and it is a fantastic small venue!
 Reasons why I am inspired by Ani – she started [...]

Creativity is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God.

From Bob Moawad, whoever that is…

Mackinac Island

Something I wrote a long time ago, that still rings so true…
In this place,
everything you thought you needed
to make you the you
you thought you wanted to be
is stripped away
(not ungently)
from your soul – –
leaving you with only
your beginning and
all your endings
(and everything in the middle)
in your back pocket -
leaving you to [...]

Apparently

I have started writing again, inspired by a great book that I got for my birthday…let me qualify this by saying that I am strictly a poet, in most cases, and that is probably what I’ll be sharing here…I wrote this one following after reading some of my old stuff…
It is apparent that I had [...]

Adison

I haven’t gotten to this in way too long, so I’ll try to post a few – way back on Labor Day weekend, my one and only niece (for now, nudge nudge, Elizabeth )  and myself finally met – I was also surprised because my sister & brother in law from NC showed [...]