Poem in Present Tense
Like many poets who write because they can’t not write, I started in my youth writing poems of my feelings or ideas and was very literal, using I when I meant myself and the past tense when I was...
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It’s a rare thing for me to send out a batch of poems and have them all accepted. The Raven’s Perch has done just that and I’m thrilled. You can find one of four here:...
View ArticleThinking about dreams
Are elevator dreams limited to people in academic disciplines who go to conferences in big hotels? Do they have a particular meaning? This poem reflects on one such dream. At the Annual Conference I...
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With words, with the acrostic form, about something you can play with at the desk. But I’ve been getting into old storage, and there are too many. Oversupply Pins that make no holesAbundant in every...
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I came home from a wonderful trip to learn that a poem of mine is out on line. The editors really like it – they don’t recommend reading aloud or rereading for every poem. I’m very pleased to have it...
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Visit to Arles
The first stop on the river cruise I took this month was Arles. Arles makes a very big deal of the time Vincent Van Gogh spent there, with placards set up around the city. It does indeed have...
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On the River (my trip, part 2)
Viking river ships look very elegant seen from above in their ads. Up close they seem a bit chunky. There are a lot of ships on the Rhone river. They often have to double park, one against another...
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Trip, part 3
I was eager to visit Lyon because I had learned of its importance as a market town in the Middle Ages when I was studying the unicorn tapestries. It was good to see that monuments from its Roman...
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Trip, part 4
The high speed train from Lyon to Paris went so fast it was hard to observe the landscape. Just when something interesting appeared it was hidden as the train went into a cut. Then the ride from the...
View ArticlePlaying at the Desk
In December I signed up for Two Sylvias Press’s December calendar of prompts. I’m not a writer who can do a new poem every day, but I do find lots to work with so I continue into January, at least,...
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