Tomorrow Jett and I celebrate our birthdays! I can't help but think about where I was, what my body was doing/feeling, how close we were to meeting the giant-sized baby in my belly...that fateful May 27th, 2006 when we had no idea what was ahead...but for the dream coming true of birthing a child. And,… Continue reading Poem 147 – Remembering birth & more
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Poem 146 – Voicing the Full Moon & Open Book Ontario & Tour Update
Voicing the Full Moon read poetry out loud todayjust do itI triple dog dare youread poetry out loud today the full moon needs to hear the magic of poetry’s rhyme & meter & metaphor & pain & devotion & confusion & love & love & love because: eclipsethe moon – great hunk of pock-faced light slides into earth’s… Continue reading Poem 146 – Voicing the Full Moon & Open Book Ontario & Tour Update
Poem 142 – Heart to Heart & Date Change
Heart to heart best friendson a quiltin a graveyardtaking out their heartshanding them overbeautifully bleeding the flush of expositiondreams secrets fearsbundled in laughter souls of the deadperched on tree brancheslistening to love DATE CHANGE* - Method Writing - Poetry on Demand Please note the DATE CHANGE for my upcoming event with Marshall James Kavanaugh -… Continue reading Poem 142 – Heart to Heart & Date Change
Poem 141 – In it & more
In it in the smell of Spring’s breezy exhalation:my anxious youth track meets where I hid under the bleachers and criedclassrooms wet with stifled heat and math I didn’t understandteachers who understood my passion for wordsthe wobbly possibility of a lunch-hour romancethe first time I shaved my legs brown hairs curling down the tub drain… Continue reading Poem 141 – In it & more
VANESSA SHIELDS 