Tag Archives: poetry
hummingbird
Life’s songSo pretty and sweetSavor the momentsKnow right from wrong Rhythm and rhymeOne beat at a timeYour story will be toldBig, bright, and boldLet it shineBut don’t place it on hold Curiosity is a necessityYour very own laboratoryNo white lab coatsNo microscopesSpread … Continue reading
Linden Hills
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor (1985, 304 pages) Linden Hills, like Bailey’s Café, is yet another complex book that I would not put in the “easy-to-read” category. I read this book over 20 years ago. I never forgot how wonderful, haunting, vivid, and compelling … Continue reading
Ship it!
Sometimes it is just time to ship it, be done and move on. We are actually stifling creative flow when we forever come back to the same project over and over again. We cannot begin again and again if we … Continue reading
Out to Dance
And that’s the thing about hope,She springs out of nowhere,At the glimpse of possibility,On the breeze of a belief,The faint chatter of faith,For beneath the murkiness of despair,She’s laying there,Just waiting,Breathing it all out,All these fears that devoured you,Slicing your … Continue reading
Hope
Hope has holesin its pockets. It leaves little crumb trails so that we, when anxious,can follow it. Hope’s secret: it doesn’t know the destination- it knows only that all roads begin with one foot in front ofthe other.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Real Life of an MSW 