I discovered a new form of haiku today! The Haiga - a melding of painting and haiku! It's an ekphrastic expression using haiku! Who knew?! Find out more in the links below! I also discovered a Canadian artist, Siobhan Humston...she attended my little heart tour book event in Sarnia! I am so inspired by her… Continue reading POEM A DAY – July 20 & SARNIA & LIT NIGHT OPEN MIC!
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
POEM A DAY – July 19
Crooked Family mother’s familial shapeistriangular she apexesthendaughter & other daughter a trifectathreesomethree musketeers west-end girls except daughterdeviates& angles shift tectonic loveindisruption mother’sscarcrooked over her collarbone daughterleaves& sides collapse families end, girls
POEM A DAY – July 18
Closet The doorless shared bedroom at the evil step-dad’s house had a long, wide closet. I went into it like it was my private apartment. A carpeted, one-room sanctuary, clothes-roofed, shoes pushed aside like bricks. I hauled in chapter books, markers, crayons, stickers, Hilroys in soft hued-yellows, blues. The pillow, heart-cased, from my top-bunk bed,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – July 18
VANESSA SHIELDS 