The True Nature of Poetry
Just a short note, with one of the best quotations on Poetry I’ve ever run across… At the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat a couple weeks ago, I fell in love with a poem that Karen Honnold read at one of the evening sessions. Later I found it was from her chapbook, and she had only brought a copy to read […]
Just For Fun Friday 04/24/2015
I’m at Lucidity Poetry Workshop/Retreat this week. It’s a fun event – if you aren’t here, why not? I was still in my ‘Going to Oz’ mindset, and wrote this on my way up to the workshop. Wanderlust I wish I really had a pair of Dorothy’s scarlet shoes. I’d click my heels […]
Off to Oz…
Now and then, while attending the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat, I’m tempted to paraphrase that quotation, “…We’re not in (Ar)Kansas any more…”. Indeed, late April in the Ozarks is a wonder – a natural sensory overload. Top that off with the mixture of characters that live and work in Eureka Springs, and it does get rather […]
Just For Fun Friday 04/10/2015
Remember about this time last year, when I told you a tulip bulb I planted over 10 years ago, that I assumed had just died away, had suddenly presented me with a single yellow blossom? Well, this year, it doubled its gift! Kind of scary…. Phoenix Flower You were planted long ago with hopes for brilliant, yearly show. […]
Merry Christmas
Remembering Southern Christmases… When there was no snow or ice – But Santa still came for all of us kids ( whether we were naughty or nice) Remember – no snow in Jerusalem – But Christmas occurred just the same…. Wasn’t weather or singing or ribbons of red that gave this day it’s name.
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