Ghazal on Isolation“…continue the shine in vivid isolation…” Agha Shahid Ali another dawn tugs on my skinbegging me awake in birdsong my cold shoulder longsfor the tongue of yesterday’s chorus – the extended version of a ballad I didn’t know could endghostly alive in such vivid isolation my mind is a silk slip on a… Continue reading Poem 126 – Ghazal on Isolation
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Poem 124 – Muskoka & May Event Round-Up & WEreads!
Muskoka muskoka calls me like a secret loverher yearnings gripping the edges of busty winds& jumping into the soft spot under my earlobes – patient in the tender shadows we had a love affair for three summers…maybe twothe memories are lake blurry – does it matter? time lived differentlyshouldered against tall trees: pine spruce fir hemlock… Continue reading Poem 124 – Muskoka & May Event Round-Up & WEreads!
Poem 114 – Celebrat’ry Musts & CBC Books
Celebrat'ry Musts in celebration of Earth Day, Shakespeare's birthday & Indie Bookstore Day such celebrat'ry mustsearthshakespeareindie bookst'res such int'rtwin'd charmstar seeds to treesturneth to pap'r holdinginky w'rds writ by lov'rsof life and languagedid press to pagessplay'd on shelvesbooks yond art alive and at which hour did light'racy wanesmoth'r nature spins h'r skirtsand lifts our spirits… Continue reading Poem 114 – Celebrat’ry Musts & CBC Books
Poem 109 – Butter
Butter butter on fingersmakes pen’s body slipperylike dew on poems TEN DAYS TO VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH! Thank you to everyone who has already registered for my virtual book launch on Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:30pm! Yippeee! Books are selling like butter-drippy hotcakes! Thank you for that too! Here's a link to register for the… Continue reading Poem 109 – Butter
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