birds in my backyard

A children’s poem for Spring…….

2:00 am

A children’s poem….  

Another Universe

A fun poetry exercise that gets your creativity flowing is Found Poems. You take a stack of old magazines, choose interesting phrases from various pages and articles, and piece them together. The result can be startling! This exercise has you place phrases and words together that you might not put together otherwise – it opens

Grandmother (mountain woman)

This is one of the family poems in my book, Diary of the Soft World. I’ve written many ancestry/family poems – lots of amazing memories of loved ones from trips to the mountains, to Maine, and elsewhere!

Did you ever wish….?

I do dabble in rhyme, on occasion. Here is a light-hearted children’s poem from several years ago….