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Days 8 – 12 of the PAD chapbook challenge
I had been wrestling with so many things the last few days, my novel included, I just couldn’t settle my brain down enough for poems. And then it all came in a rush. You know, where your soul is cracked and something happens to pry it open and everything just pours out? Yeah, like that. […]
Day 6: Covered
“Patterns” Tight Frames, Words Controlled Once Daily. Big Picture, Words Multiplied Each Session. Poetry Produces Chemistry, Making Novels Possible. Dreams Plucking Plots From Subconscious Wanderings. November Brings Cohesion, Chapbook Releases Abandon. Stretching Vocabulary Stimulates Covering Revealed Bases. Round Corners, Smooth Edges, Tying Ends.
PAD, Day 4: “Maybe _____”
Maybe she can do it On her own With no one around To hold her to it. Maybe I can do it On my own With no one around To drag me back in. Maybe we can do it On our own With no one around To hold us back now. Maybe God can do it On His […]
Job changes
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings, Poetry on October 18, 2009
This poem is, to me, what snugly fits with this column because my faith often fuels my writing, and God gave me my techie husband, so it is fitting on several levels that I give God the glory for where I am now. Written at a very different time in my life, this poem reflects what […]
Bohemian: the ironic twist to my comfort food column
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings, Poetry on October 17, 2009
While I was blessed that things stopped where they began, there is a deeper irony in the comfort derived from Czech food than my column could allow. My hope is that in sharing this poem, originally posted at Poetic Asides as a prompt for “a personal interaction,” my readers will connect with something concrete in […]
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