Float Inspired by ‘Float on your Back A While’ pg. 35, The Purity of Desire 100 Poems of Rumi, translated by Daniel Ladinksy with Nancy Owen Barton I go to Rumi for guidancegather his words over my heartpushing faith through my skinbeseech him – Tell me, friend, how do I live this poet life? Float… Continue reading Poem 226 – Float
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Poem 202 – Playing Store
Playing Store In the fourplex living roomhauling hardcover books, mom’s shoes, stuffed animals, tape cassettes, bags, candles, picture frames, notepads, jewelry, Cabbage Patch kids, sticker books, lunch pails –using Monopoly money, found pennies & nickels & dimes,blank bank forms paper thin like dreams,and a Fisher Price plastic cash registerthat beeped sadly, intermittently, its batterycorroding with… Continue reading Poem 202 – Playing Store
Summer Vacation Soliloquy
SUMMER VACATION HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN! Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 2:35pm was the official start of our family's summer vacation. A bunch of us, parents and kids, hung around in the school yard after the bell rang to talk summer vacation plans and say farewell until September. I had a giddiness in my tummy that's… Continue reading Summer Vacation Soliloquy
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 