Poyms (aka poetry)

Today, I stumbled across this poem, “Ode to the End of the World”, which I wrote in 2012 for the wonderful poetry site, Bent Lily. It feels fresh as new and, perhaps more relevant [...]

So, let’s say ‘a person’ were trying to reinvent herself – and she had to do it, like, right in front of people – out in the open. Had to change from one thing into [...]

You are a rainbow. You are a full moon. You are rain, drip dropping into a puddle. You are infinite, eternal, everywhere. You are here. pressing against the edge of the world the way that this [...]

Note to self: When you wake up at 3 am and work til 6 – and then go back to bed and dream wild dreams, all of this is okay. At 10 am, you will feel like writing mad poetry while lying [...]

This resistance/this willingness – It’s the same thing, you know. This bitter/this sweet This aching/this relief This wonder/this terror The same thread, day after day, and me/and you [...]

Every night, at three a.m., my heart wakes me and starts calling for your heart. You are right here beside me but I do not want to wake you because you work late and I rise early, because you [...]

Each summer, I try something new to spark my creative flow. Last year, I attended a weeklong writing workshop on Star Island, New Hampshire. This year, I attended the Creative Joy Retreat with [...]

A few years ago Samantha Reynolds decided to write one poem a day,  “to train me to see the world constantly with the eyes of a poet,” she explains, “which means to slow down, [...]

What I don’t know can leave me breathless Astronomy. Mysticism. Cosmology. History. The turning of the wheel of time. I want to know names, dates, locations – I want to hold it all [...]