April 19 2015
Today’s poem is one I wrote in response to a poetry challenge by Writers Digest. The challenge was to choose a dead poet, take one of his/her poems or just a line from the poem, and write a new poem refuting that poem. I choose the lines “Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out […]
April 18 2015
Today I’m going to a baby shower. My gift will be a quilt that I’ve pieced together using fabric blocks saved by my grandmother and great aunt. I don’t know if Simone (I love it that baby already has a name) will be a quilter, but I love passing down this part of my German […]
April 17 2015
Did you know that New York has a state insect? In 1989, coccinella novemnotata, the nine-spotted ladybug, was named New York State’s official insect. Unfortunately this particular ladybug has not been seen in a while. Cornell University is asking kids to send them a digital picture if they find the C-9 ladybug. For more information check […]
April 16 2015
Today is an ordinary day. This poem reminds me to look for the Holy in the ordinary. Welcome Morning by Anne Sexton There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning, in the chapel of eggs I cook each […]
April 15 2015
Today is the deadline for filing our income tax. Have you been stressing to meet this deadline? Even if you are expecting a refund, nobody looks forward to filling out those forms. I don’t have an income tax poem, but I do have a poem about the DMV. The DMV is a little bit like […]
April 14 2015
This month marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination. Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address a year and a half earlier at the cemetery dedication in 1863. I think it’s worth taking the time to reread it today. Some may not consider it poetry, but I do. Gettysburg Address […]
April 13 2015
I’m still thinking of Easter and spring break. Here’s a poem I wrote a few years ago that encompasses both. Pilgrimage The Easter Parade starts early. Lily white Angoras head south on the bunny trail to worship at the House of the Rising Sun. Along the way they collect disciples, folks blown right out of […]
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 […]