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My poem "The Resting Place" is included in a group of Memorial Day poems published in The Rusty Truck ezine. http://rustytruck.wor...

This is another poem that came from a news story. This one was about someone young who made a serious mistake. The Next Step One slip into d...

Today's posting is an ekphrastic poem, one inspired by another art form. The inspiration is the Water Lilies triptych by Claude Monet th...

I wrote this poem for a friend who was moving out of town, but I also shared it with the grief support group with which I volunteer. I think...

The moon was closer to the earth Saturday than it has been in 18 years. Unfortunately for me, the clouds were even closer. No Closer A close...

Some friends of mine were going to perform poetry and music one evening. Unfortunately, the bar they were going to perform in got closed dow...

This was one of the first poems I wrote as I began this journey of writing poetry. Even though my mother had died several years earlier, her...