There is a job, yes, a real job, whose title is “puppy cuddling” where employees must cuddle their way through litters of puppies being trained as working dogs. For no matter what their futures or how much good they will do in the world, today they are still puppies and need love. If only we…

Responding to “This photo wants to be a poem” Partners for 47 years (first version) Walking on waterseems like an impossible thing to doand yet, we are askedto do it every day.Difficult problemsare more the normthan the abnormality.Let me be your pebblejust below the surfaceto hold you uplong enoughto get to the other side. —————————-…

I read a lot about anthologies, and love to see them come out with so many types of poems focused on a theme. But I don’t know how to find a “call for poets” to submit to an anthology. I used to have great fun with ezines and web sites that played with themed poems.…

An online challenge for the month of July is to create a Triptych Poem. Like the old art that showed a story in three parts, triptych poems also work in three connected parts. Often they are past, present and future musings on one subject. Similarly, when looking at old triptych art, we see the main…

Welcome to Poetry Friday. This week is hosted by Marcie Atkins https://www.marcieatkins.com. the challenge is to write a sedoka poem.– 2 three line stanzas–5 syllables in the first line and 7 syllables in the second and third lines of each stanza-the first stanza is an observation on nature or a comment on love-the second is…

Taken from last months ELA challenge, I felt compelled to write to this prompt this morning when so many of the things I love are disappearing overnight. It feels like my world is turning upside down. Again. I was reading about a 100 year old Holocaust survivor, who actually survived by playing in the orchestra…

I’m moving my bookcases and am amazed at the assortment of photos and newspaper clippings, etc. that are tucked in between the books. I happened upon an old printout of a poem, published in an xzine called Fantasy, Forlklore and Fairytales. Itr was one of the first things I ever published and I don’t think…

So much of my life looks to the future. What do I need to be doing? Who should I be talking to? What is on my calendar for today? Even though I am retired and can make my days whatever I desire, I still am driven by my future tasks. But today, when reading poetry…