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 […]
April 02 2015
For this Easter weekend I’ll be posting poems which are nonets or reverse nonets. A nonet is a French poetry form consisting of 9 lines with the syllable count descending from 9 to 1. A reverse nonet has 9 lines with the syllable count increasing from 1 to 9. I chose this form for the […]
April 01 2015
April is National Poetry Month, so I’ll be posting a poem here on my blog every day. Some of the poems will be ones that I’ve written myself. Some will be poems from poets who are just a little bit more well known than myself. This first poem is the theme poem of There Are […]
February 27 2015
In January I had the opportunity to hear Stephen King speak at a fundraiser for the Manatee Public Library in Bradenton, Florida. King spends his winters on a nearby island and had donated his time. My first thought when he came out on stage was that he was taller than I had imagined. […]