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Un-Predictable Poetry
In response to Chris Mills question: How has this pandemic impacted you as a writer? I'd have to say my writing has taken on a much darker tone, and I have to struggle to keep it light. Been trying to find joy in the small everyday things. Some days are better than others.
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Long Song Ago
My apologies for being away so long. Still singing the same old song.
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Flower Moon
It seems the Moon, and flowers, and poetry, is what's getting me through these uncertain days.
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Poetry To Go
Verses penned with no destination in mind. Offline on android time.
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Things Have Changed
The world has changed with Covid 19 and that's putting it lightly. Even while the pandemic rages, poets continue to make poetry. In celebration of world poetry month, here are few I've written this past week. Peace.
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Forever My Dear
Sending my love, hope, and best wishes for everyone facing the threat of the Corona virus. It's been an emotional roller coaster ride seeing this unfold.
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Poetry Making
Poetry is a Song.
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'Dusk' in Haiku and Other Poems
Reading Linda Crampton's beautiful Haiku poetry today has made me want to publish some of my own attempts that have been languishing in my drafts file for awhile.
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A Story in Response to Billybuc Photo Challenge Prompt Installment 1
I usually (lately) write poetry so my short story skills are a little rusty.
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Daybreak and other Poems
Another Starling poem, and a couple of silly verses penned in 2019 for April poetry month.
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French Knot
A poem deconstructing the hydrangea flower, and a collection of one letter abecedarian poems written as a lighthearted response to Ann Carr's recent poetry challenge.
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The Road Home Poems
Home is where the heart is, they say...
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Solstice Ironic
Song to an old woman tottering in her garden.
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The Doggerel Days of April
A selection of poems from April Poetry Month 2019
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A Day So Far Away
It's sure been a long cold winter. I think writing (and reading) poetry has got me through the worst of it.
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Between Storms
Waiting for Spring is like watching the Super Wolf Blood Moon eclipse which was lovely, but a wee bit like watching paint dry on the moon. It seems to take forever!
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White Lilacs and Winter Poems
Poems inspired by a lilac tree that has out-lived several generations and still grows now in a friends garden; and some recent winter writes.
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Egress
Watching as winter unleashes it's fury.
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Last Rites of Summer
Some of my last writes of summer, with autumn closing in.
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10-word Poems
Ten words is such a tiny canvas. Experimenting here with ways to present.
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Singing My Song
Recent poems inspired by mornings, moonlight, and music.
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Night and Day Poems
Recent poems.
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Wrong House: A Short Story for Ann Carr
An Ann Carr writing challenge.
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Poems in the Rain
Adding some new rainy day poems to the pile...
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Quietly
Quietly writing the summer away.
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Journeys
Playing with free verse is freeing, like painting with water color.
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Summertime Haiku and Other Poems
Trying to capture summer this summer.
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My First Sonnet
It's a start.
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Elegy for Those We've Loved
Saying goodbye to those we love is the hardest part of living.
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Sea Escape
Poems from an island
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May Songs
"Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees, and the flowers and the trees, and the moon up above..."
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Night Dancing with Plath
My response to Sylvia Plath's poem The Night Dances.
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Copy 18 using Louis Dudek 'When You Die of All Our Loves' as a guide...
Love is in the air for April 2018 Poetry month.
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Poem Parade
April is poetry month. I joined in a challenge to write one a day. Turned out I wrote too many. How did this happen? It's a parade.
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There's a Poem on Every Page
I love poetry. I love reading poetry. I love writing poetry (although I'm really not very good at it). Recently I've written some new poems that I'm excited to share. Hope you enjoy!
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Hermit Song
The Hermit Thrush has the sweetest song that I have ever heard. Poem from a 2011 note book.
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I Dream of Clean... a Humorous Look at Cleaning
Cleaning day chaos.
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When All the World Was Young
A poem for my Dad, John David Burroughs 1924-1983.
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Cat and Cherry Blossoms
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability." Susan Sontag
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Back to the Garden: A Visit to a Cherished Old Vancouver Island Garden
A collection of photos and videos from a trek I made to Ronning's garden on the old wagon road to Cape Scott.
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A Year in the Garden - January
Gardening ideas for January.
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The Beach Blossoms
From the archives, one of my first attempts at short story fiction.
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Diving in the Canyon - a Photo Gallery
A prize winning photo gallery of boys in exuberant flight jumping and diving off a cliff.
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Two Sides to Every Story
This is a short story about an old woman and her care-giver.
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Painting a Black and White Photograph
Painting is a secret passion of mine. This article transfers that interest into the digital realm, and explains technique from a beginner's level. A re-post from 2011.
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Fragments
A collection of my first published poems on Hub Pages.