I’m about to do a Poetry Slam — wherever it is you are. #SpokenWord #NationalPoetryMonth

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Easter Bunny Blues: An Ex-Christian’s Lament

It is Easter. I know, because even though I am not a Christian, I apparently live in a country where Good Friday is a national holiday. (?!?) I also know we are in the midst of a religious holiday (commercialized like all others) because I see bunnies everywhere. And everyone knows Jesus loves bunnies. If […]

“Welcome and entertain them all…” Happy National Poetry Month

The Guest House by Rumi: This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them allEven if they’re a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still, treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you outfor […]

Women Who Write

I’m looking forward to this…

I’m about to do a Poetry Slam — wherever it is you are. #SpokenWord #NationalPoetryMonth

Retribution Not Lost  Apostle Lithium Chronicle On Writing

30 Days — Celebrating National Poetry Month — April 28

Nobody But Yourself 

30 Days — Celebrating National Poetry Month — April 27

Lesson

30 Days — Celebrating National Poetry Month — April 26

perhaps perhaps one day wings like lead falling to earth will pound puddles with soaked fists perhaps it will erupt exposing all kinds of extortion before it drops deep on the back of the tongue gagging until it is swallowed perhaps blue eyes are magnets and poetry trying to describe them is as dull as […]

30 Days — Celebrating National Poetry Month — April 25

 Hunger To be famished– it isn’t a knot that forms like a star collapsing it isn’t an alarm using agrivation as stimulussomewhere hidden and primal our reptilian brains rouse us to scrounge, scurry and hunt if we suppress for too long the wave passes over us and we substitute animation for sustenance but survival is a robust Mistress and sooner […]

30 Days — Celebrating National Poetry Month — April 24

The Covenant    The smoker across the waypaces in intervals preferring illumination,cringing from cover as if it might hide him. Across the chain-length fence a recognition of habit, of addiction, of pure pleasure–of voluntary banishmentno matter the weatherit is what it is–unspoken and agreed upon by an imperceptible nod we are sharing a suicide pact…we both know […]