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Post for National Poetry Month, April 2019: Door into the Poem

DOne of the forms of meditation I practice uses sequences of ascension to get to a plain that represents the higher self. Once in this dimly illumined world, I am…Read More »

What Time or Event in our Lives Yields the Most Poems?

WRobert Frost lived with his family on his little farm in New Hampshire for 9 years early in his married life. He died at 88, yet most of his poems…Read More »

Brown Paper Poems

The physical act of capturing a poem overwhelms me at times. This week I started one which in both my mind and intuition was a bombardment of images and I…Read More »

August Poetry Postcard Fest

August has been all about the mailbox again this year. About writing a poem concise enough to fit, written, on a small square – and sent around the country and…Read More »