July is disability pride month! Meghan celebrates her pride with a poem about the ups and downs of disability. Pride How do you have pride in something, That from the moment you take your…
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Your quick poetry challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a poem in six lines or less. Share your creations in the comments! Taking advantage of the free poetry classes offered…
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A working Mom, during a pandemic is a challenge. A working Mom who needs a bit of peace so she can write, that’s another story. Pandemic haiku it is! Feeling a little unfocused. Constant…
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An allegory expressing the sadness of a brother’s death where dad becomes the caretaker, and his children, priceless masterpieces of God. I often express my feelings about things I can’t control through poetry. When…
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Inspired on vacation to Vancouver Island, poetry flows from this avid traveller. A call to the ocean with bittersweet reflections on travel & belonging. I don’t usually write poetry, but I recently took a…
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It’s dogs barking both close and far. It’s cars reverberating across a bridge whose joints have been sloppily paved over to create heaves that make an empty dump truck bounce and bang. Ker-chunk.…
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October has been a…month. Between my own health issues, the death of a friend from school, and the impending deployment of my boyfriend (tomorrow morning), I have been a mess. I loved Bridget’s Medusa…
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You’ll have to forgive me as I haven’t experienced a proper fall in roughly seven years, and when I say “fall,” I mean that period of time when forests of trees bleed all manner of crimson…
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I must admit that I nearly forgot the deadline for my blog posting today (and technically missed it, boo me), and even though the general topic for it – a quote by romantic poet…