Category: Poetry
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Eclipse Album: You’re Cordially Invited
Dierik and I wanted to see the eclipse without traveling. I hear some places were charging $900 a night. Being in large crowds or stuck in slow traffic didn’t sound appealing. We decided to forego the chance to see the full eclipse because we saw one seven years ago locally.…
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Mom, I remember…
My tribute poem to Mom was just published by Grief Book Club. The anniversary of her death was April 3. Mom, I remember You were at my side when I was paralyzed with encephalitis & recovering from the coma I cried in your arms after school each day, learning was so…
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How to Write a Poem Right: Don’t tell Shakespeare!
I have a poem up on Hotel Masticadores House. My gratitude to Editor Michelle Ayon Navajas! @poetrybymich How to Write a Poem Right by Barbara Leonhard A haibun a daykeeps the sonnets at baybecause in the haikuthe meter isn’t true…..If you need a chuckle today, you can read the rest…
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Party Hearty—My New Collaboration with Nolcha Fox is up On HOTEL Masticadores!
Thank you, Esteemed Editor Michelle Ayon Navajas, for publishing our poem “Party Hearty” on HOTEL Masticadores! Party Hearty by Barbara Leonhard and Nolcha Fox Rona woke up on the right side of the saddle. Felt hoarse. Coughed up phlegm the color of runny yolks. “Good day for a party. They love …
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Poem up on Hotel Masticadores!
Thank you, Michelle Ayon Navajas, for publishing “Birth Name”, a collaboration by Nolcha Fox and me. Nolcha and I had fun spinning verses on Google Drive, responding to each other’s new verses daily for a period of time. Hope you like this poem! Here is the start of the poem.…
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Interview up with Robbie Cheadle on Writing to be Read!
Thank you, Robbie Cheadle, for sharing my insights on poetry and reviewing my book, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir for Treasuring Poetry on Writing to be Read!I invite you to read the interview, which is linked below. In it I explored the use of metaphor in Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The…
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“Early Spring Snow” published on Spillwords!
Thank you, Dagmara K., for publishing my poem “Early Spring Snow” on Spillwords! My Thoughts on the PoemIt never fails that snow falls shortly after the daffodils bloom and the birds are back, deceived by the weather that Spring has arrived. Snow can smother or buffer. The morning’s glistening mounds…
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A Sonnet to Tinnitus
Thank you, Michelle Ayon Navajas, for publishing my sonnet today on Hotel Masticadores House! As you may know, tinnitus is ringing in the ears. The screeching sounds are all around me every minute of the day and night, and when I’m trying to sleep, the volume and pitch rise as…
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Poems Up in The Power of the Feminine I Anthology!
I’m so delighted to have some poems in Volume 1 of this new anthology, edited by Christal Ann Rice Cooper and Donna Biffar. It’s available on Amazon. It’s 446 pages long and currently a best seller in American Poetry! Can’t wait to get the copy I ordered! $10.99 for paperback$3.00…
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Grief and Joy Ride the Smiler
Grief and Joy Ride the Smiler The wacky 14-loop roller coaster ride invites laughter and loss. Grief screams and hangs on to Joy as though proposing. The reeling, a dance of ups, downs, ins and outs. Twists and turns. Joy loses her lunch on Loop 8, Grief, his last two…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 