April 11 2015
I’ll be reading some of my funny poems at the Laugh A Minute Poetry Café in the Macedon Public Library at 1:00 pm today, April 12, sharing the mic with some other members of the Walworth Writers Guild. The library is in the Macedon town complex on Rte. 31 in Macedon. This is one of […]
April 11 2015
Today is Opening Day for the Rochester Red Wings. Although one of my favorite things to do on a warm summer night is to watch the Red Wings play, I won’t be sitting in the bleachers today. I’ll be there is spirit though, so today’s poems have a baseball theme. They are not about baseball […]
April 10 2015
This is a poem I wrote more than ten years ago about Rochester when Bill Johnson was mayor and Bob Wegman was still alive. I think it’s still relevant today. Seasoning Rochester The hill where the sun hides blushes lilac with the first scent of spring. On the east side, life sashays outdoors […]
April 09 2015
One of my favorite ways to relax is to sit with the New York Times crossword puzzle and a cup of coffee. I love how the puzzles get progressively more difficult from Monday through Saturday. Monday’s is almost too easy, and Saturday’s is so difficult that I can almost never solve it without help. But […]
April 08 2015
This is another spring poem by one of my favorite poets, e.e. cummings. Wishing you a puddle-wonderful day. in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and […]
April 07 2015
We’re in between seasons here in Western New York. Winter has officially ended, yet spring is hard to find on some days. Although the church continues to celebrate Easter, it is over for the secular world, where each holiday is rushed to make ready for the next. This poem from Ecclesiastes, which was written around […]
April 06 2015
Daffodils are one of my favorite flowers and definitely my favorite sign of spring. Many of you will recognize at least the first verse of this tribute to daffodils by William Wordsworth. The Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a […]
April 05 2015
Happy Easter! Here is the last nonet, along with the other three. God always has the last word. And that word is love. The Yous and Mes of eternity, we all must dig out the dirty truth. Life begins and ends in dust. Pride, wealth, and life itself won’t last, must collapse. […]
April 04 2015
Today is the day between Good Friday and Easter, the waiting day or day of suspension. So I’m suspending the last nonet until tomorrow and posting a poem that I wrote a few years ago after taking a Good Friday prayer walk with other Christians right here in Rochester. Balancing Act I walked with […]
April 03 2015
Today I’m reposting the nonets for Ash Wednesday and Maudy Thursday and adding one for Good Friday. Ash Wednesday The Yous and Mes of eternity, we all must dig out the dirty truth. Life begins and ends in dust. Pride, wealth, and life itself won’t last, must collapse. From ashes to ashes we […]