Posted in Family Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, Poetry, Sample Poems, tagged chocolate pie, chocolate pie recipe, Dayton Ohio, Family Stories, Mother's Day, Mother's Day poetry, Vandalia Ohio on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
With Mother’s Day this Sunday, I’ve been thinking of not only my own mother, but of the wonderful women going back generations in my family. One reason I know about those women is because both Mom and her mother, Grandma Martha, always told great stories, whether about their own pasts or about the female family members [...]
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I guess I shouldn’t let April pass without posting a poem. This is from my chapbook How Time Got Away (Pudding House Publications, (c)2005). The night I’m writing about happened over 30 years ago.
APRIL 16TH
Spring again, a sadness to swear by.
Lamplight filters through the shadow
of a neighbor’s death. In a back bedroom,
my father, cricket caught [...]
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Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged birthday celebrations, celebrating simple joys, celebrating the little things, National Poetry Month, National Secretary's Day on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
As I said in this post, April is my birthday month. April often is also Easter month, so there are two big celebrations right there.
At various times over the years, other celebrations have added layers to the party atmosphere of April for me. And, frankly, sometimes keeping up with all the parties and commemorations made [...]
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In honor of Halloween, I posted a poem called “A Horror Story” here, where I explain the circumstances that inspired the piece.
On this blog I thought I’d post a couple more Halloween poems. Happy haunting, everyone!
TRICKS AND TREATS
AT SHORTY’S SALOON
A warped pumpkin face leered
from the ring-marred bar top.
We peered through eye holes
at an electric beer [...]
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I’ve been lucky enough to have two chapbooks of poetry published in the last seven years, after struggling for at least two decades. I self-published one chapbook nearly 30 years ago; then in the early 80s I won a chapbook competition through La Reina Press — which went out of business before the chapbook was ever [...]
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