Category Archives: Poetry and Lyrics

The Irony of it All – What I Do

“what the heck? That woman is out of her freakin’ mind!”
Yup, that’s me, just doing my normal weirdnesses, again. Continue reading →

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Sunday morning haiku

Out-spread, angry wings Quacking protest against sky Blackbird torments hawk. Buff white, angry wings Bleating protests high wheeling Persistent blackbird Big hawk, really light underwings. Small blackbird everywhere at once. It sounded like a duck quacking, sadly.

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Day 30 of 30, NaPoWriMo 2014 – Say Goodbye

here’s the last poem of April 2014, which rumbled around in my brain this evening while I was doing a lot of pinning of quilts. Continue reading →

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Day 29, NaPoWriMo

my hands fall to the roar •
heart fails. •
i’ve no love •
and this thing that I make Continue reading →

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Day 28, NaPoWriMo – Tanka

the sad ones lingered over •
turned and turned in eager hands Continue reading →

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