La Luna Piena Last night’s full moon, resplendent in its frost-haloed glory, shone like the brightest pearl, perched on a phosphorescent-ringed half-shell, like Botticelli’s Venus. Or maybe like a silver stone dropped into the deepest-blue pool, and there emitting concentric ripples of gold, turquoise, and pink, and a light beyond white, casting shadows so dense …
Poet Kellie Elmore
Funeral for Revelations Sun Gray mist rains on the mourning, smothering earths ember as she is laid to rest. Trumpets sound, a lonesome hymn across rolling hills and swallowed valleys. In the darkest hour, clarity rains an immortal dew, settling ash atop a new harvest. Kellie Elmore lives in East Tennessee. She's been writing since …
Poet Robert Smith
Now it's beautiful Now it's beautiful. The snow drips from the heavens in white large frozen tears of the angels and i am hypnotized like a man struck by just how a woman walking can leave him speechless. Now it's beautiful. Whereas before it was rainy and gloomy, and the snow was black and iced …
Taking the LEAP
American writer and poet Jamie Dedes, a former columnist and features writer, reviewed 'Leap' today in her Saturday Review series. I'm thrilled with her well-written, informative review (and tickled she'd put Anne Murray, k.d. lang, and Mark Vonnegut in the same sentence as my name) and wanted to share parts of it with my readers …
Caption This!
Don't Blink—Day 7 Here's your Friday giggle and a challenge: caption this photo with as G a comment as you can (This blog is linked to my children's poetry site, I just want to keep things clean. Plus, it makes it more of a challenge). I can't think of anything rated PG, let alone G. …
Heather Grace Stewart 