Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver

Category: My Mother

• Healing Memoir My Mother Poem Recognition/ Honor Spillwords

  

  “Marie Kondo Cleans My Purse at Starbucks” Wins Publication of the Month at Spillwords

  I am humbled and pleased to tell you that my poem “Marie Kondo Cleans My Purse at Starbucks” won Publication of the Month of January/February at Spillwords! Thank you for your votes! The poem will appear in the right sidebar widget this month, March 2022, as you can see if you…

  March 3, 2022
• Healing Honors Memoir My Mother Poem Publication Recognition/ Honor Spillwords

  

  “Marie Kondo Cleans My Purse at Starbucks” – Nominated Publication of the Month at Spillwords

  I am honored and grateful to the readers, and Dagmara and her editing staff for yet another honor. May I have your vote? It would mean the world to me. You can vote here: https://spillwords.com/vote/ Voting will cease on 3/1 and soon after they will reveal the winner. Please note, you…

  February 26, 2022
• Memoir My Mother Poem Publication Spillwords

  

  Marie Kondo Cleans My Purse at Starbucks

  New poem up at Spillwords! Thank you Dagmara and the editing staff! This memoir poem is from my poetry collection in progress. I’m looking for a publisher, by the way. 🙏🙏🙏 This poem, as do many in my collection, explores grief, the Mother Wound, our mother-daughter relationship, letting go, and…

  January 28, 2022
• Anti-Heroin Chic Memoir My Mother Poem Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Publication

  “Mother’s Light” – Up in Anti-Heroin Chic

  My gratitude to the editors of Anti-Heroin Chic for publishing a poem of mine in this month’s issue. http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by-barbara-harris-leonhard

  October 6, 2021
• Memoir My Mother Poem Publication Spillwords

  Cooking a Life with a Wire Spine – New Publication

  Today, as a FEATURED post, Spillwords Press published a memoir poem I wrote about me and my mother. I’m so excited. Thank you, Spillwords! https://spillwords.com/cooking-a-life-with-a-wire-spine/ This poem is one of 63 poems in my first poetry collection, a poetic memoir of my mother and me. More to come on that!

  August 14, 2021
• Audio Mother Earth My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry

  

  Before Eden Fell

         This poem is included in an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/12/fire-ice-the-faces-of-grief/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice, which features this poem (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Before Eden Fell We were all immortal, our beauty, captured forever in flora and fauna so…

  March 28, 2020
• Audio My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Writing

  

  Erosion

  This poem is included in an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/16/alzheimers-grieving-the-loss-of-my-mother/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Erosion A garden once planted in spring, bearing life in shade and sun, is now tangled with weeds and blight. A…

  March 27, 2020
• Audio Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul

  

  Grace

  This poem is included in an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/21/grief-healing-through-poetry/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Grace the leaves have fallen and stomped to dust I am laid bare, exposed to wind my limbs, brittle, still pleading…

  March 27, 2020
• Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Prose Publication Writing

  Grief: Healing Through Poetry — Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry

  By Barbara Leonhard [This is the third segment of a 3-part series on Grief and Loss. To read the previous post, click here.] I processed grief over Mom’s struggle with Alzheimer’s through poetry writing. The fact that caregivers—such as myself and many other poets—can relieve grief through poetry supports my…

  March 21, 2020
• Audio Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Prose Publication Writing

  

  Alzheimer’s: Grieving the Loss of My Mother

  Phoebemd.com has published the second part of my article on my mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. You can access Part 1 via the link provided before the article starts. These installments are based on my poetry podcast on this topic. https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/ Please like, share, and follow. Others with loved ones who…

  March 16, 2020