Yesterday, my daughter and I were talking, and she exclaimed: "Jeez Louise!" It made me laugh...and then curious. What is the genesis of this exclamation? And, that my friends, is proof of poetry alive in the every day...Looks like I'm calling the poems about words/language 'Language Arts'...We'll see how many I can write over the… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 10
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POEM A DAY – January 9
Even though I've been getting up by six each morning this week, this morning I had to get up at the same time so I could drive my Zia to an appointment at the hospital for seven. This commitment changed everything. I've written this poem in the form a haibun. Er, a sleepy, sloppy haibun.… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 9
POEM A DAY – January 8
Anything like this ever happen to you? The StairsFor D.M My Nonna’s house is a sanctuaryan extension of the Catholic Churcha rectory a block and a half awayfrom the gold-gilded arches and theweary-faced saints statues of St. Angela Merici Jesus is herehe waits for me on the landing at the top of the carpeted stairswhere… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 8
POEM A DAY – January 7
Pulled a line from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poem, 'Building the World We Believe In' In second grade, I remember…After Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s ‘Building the World We Believe In’ The classroom was on the second floorascending the giant staircase, twenty-kids wide at leastmy stomach always scrambling at my heelsanxiety wrapped around my ribs like honey I… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 7
VANESSA SHIELDS 