Absence
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, you guys must be loving me by now! I’ve been traveling, checking up on ill family members, setting up an upcoming writers’ conference, combining a couple households, looking at small houses for future retirement (downsizing a bit), and, oh yeah…working! And somewhere in there, I’ve done a very little bit of writing. Sometimes I […]
Are We Dis-connected?
Do we have, as The Captain in Cool Hand Luke called it, a failure to communicate? That’s a funny question for a writer to ask, but recent events have caused me to consider it. Communication is more than just delivering a message. It’s interaction with others. Remember that invention called the telephone? Dictionary.com defines it […]
Words and Music
At the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat, speaker/writer/educator Charlotte Renk shared six things that she calls the Qualities of Effective Writing. One of them is MUSIC. She specifies repeated sound and structure, but often a poem or essay ‘sings’ to me in other ways. It seems to call to me, deep inside. I think this is the […]
Just For Fun – Karen’s Poem
Tuesday I mentioned a poem read by Karen Honnold at Lucidity. She gave me permission to share it…. Another Spring by Karen Honnold It is spring again. Another one without you. Who can I tell about the black crow his beak full of my white dog’s fur? Who will listen or care, that the woods […]
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 […]
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