Poetry

Just For Fun Friday 04/24/2015

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...

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

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. […]

Writing Therapy

Writing Therapy

Last week when I was running out the door for our group meeting, I remembered I needed something to write on, so grabbed an old journal off the shelf.  It so happens our meeting was a study on poetry, and as I opened the book to take notes, I discovered some long-lost poems. Hmm…are they […]

Just For Fun Friday 02/13/2015

Just For Fun Friday 02/13/2015

Today I’m wondering what YOU do for fun. Here’s the title poem from my chapbook printed in 2006.  Enjoy! Having Fun Having fun is more than just play. Having fun is enjoying the day watching the squirrels run up the tree; Reading a book, a glass of iced tea on the desk by your side; […]