Category: Poem
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”The Bittersweet” Translated into Italian by Irma Kurti!
I am grateful to Irma Kurti for translating my poem “The Bittersweet” into Italian. It appears in International Web Post Journal. The English version follows the Italian. This poem came about after I discovered a leaf clinging to a spider web on a bush near my front door. I filmed…
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Woman
This poem is in my first poetry book, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir. Woman for Mom Woman, how you portray your complex essence and ambiguity.You are a study of lightcast on the walls of your Self. Shadows border your brilliance.Your portrait is askew with flavorsthat you offer to guests enamored…
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Poems for Emily Dickinson
This post is late. I should have put it up on the anniversary of Emily Dickinson’s death on May 15. She passed that day in 1886 (55 years old). I wrote the poems while attending an online Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, which is sponsored by the Emily Dickinson Museum…
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An Ode to My Knees, Whom I Named Tina and Cher, on May 24, 2023
It’s been a couple of years since my left knee replacement. A healer once told me that I needed to properly grieve the loss of my old joint and introduce the new joint to its partner. Apparently, when I had my right hip replacement, my left hip was confused, so…
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Box Turtle: A haibun
Box Turtle When the trees were young and the sun high, we had a small garden, lush with tomatoes we shared with a box turtle that would chomp on the fallen fruit. Or did my husband pick the ripe ones just for her? Her beautiful shell, the intricate patterns—did they…
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The Wetlands
My husband and I love to take country drives, especially to Eagle Bluffs, a local wetlands on the Missouri River. Along the way and throughout the wetlands, we have taken to counting the deer. We love sing the fawns and occasional buck. Last year we saw several bucks, even in…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Me a Guest Judge for Collaborature?!
I’m grateful to Melissa Lemay, founder of and editor for Collaborature, for inviting me to be the guest judge for the month of April. I read each entry several times and appreciated the opportunity to judge each and every one. I selected an ekphrastic poem “Unstrung” by Mary Stebbins Taitt…
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Sun Dog: A Leonhard Collaboration up on Collaborature
Collaborature published the following collaboration between me and my husband. I sometimes write poems to photos he takes on his river kayaking ventures or hikes. Check out the beautiful presentation on Collaborature! https://collaborature.blogspot.com/search?q=Sun+dog Sun Dog* The setting sun peers through clouds. A sun dog arches its back, stretching the light…
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Rengay Collaborations by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and Me are Making the Rounds!
Enjoy these wacky poems by the Rengay Ladies! We had a blast composing them. The Google Gremlins are still giggling! The poems follow these links. Joy Comes in the MorningMy car wouldn’t start.I pushed it off a cliff and watchedthe luminous sunrise.Sunrise paid two bird tweets for my junker carand…
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Two Poems Up on Literary Revelations!
Thank you, Gabriela Marie Milton, for publishing two of my poems on Literary Revelations Journal today, April 6, 2025. One poem is “Lilith” and the other is a haiku she accepted for TRANQUILITY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HAIKU, which will be released at the end of April. The beautiful cover for…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 