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Poetry in My Coffee

I got up early this morning because my son’s alarm went off at 5:00 a.m. (don’t you miss being 12?) and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I have a disgruntled attitude toward my parents at the moment and I...

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100 Theme Challenge ‘67%’

100 Theme Challenge: 67% Mixed Decks Deal: stroller, insistence, supremely, always, so Life is not a sometimes It’s an always A thorn that pricks at your dreaming With a nagging insistence That says...

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Poetry Poker and The Plague Legacy: Tara’s Poem

Here I have a Poetry Poker poem that I wrote about one of my characters in The Plague Legacy: Acquisitions. I had fun putting it all together and will probably do this for more of my characters as I...

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Poetry Poker Poetry Cafe Theme Mashup

The Poetry Cafe, proudly created by one of my former English students who grew up into his truly awesome self, is now sponsoring a mashup of their 100 Theme Challenge and Poetry Poker. It’s my very...

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100 Theme Challenge

Theme: Introduction, from the 100 Theme Challenge in The Poetry Cafe Mixed Decks Deal: lift, although, automatically, hence, meeting Although to you I have no face, we are meeting in a poetry café...

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100 Challenge Theme ‘Love’

Theme: Love Mixed Decks Deal: plunder, sunshine, avalanche, callouses, because My innocent plunder Was loving you I expected sunshine And raindrops soft as kisses But your affection Is an avalanche...

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100 Challenge Theme Abandoned

Theme: Abandoned Mixed Decks Deal: candle, whip, toys, invent, paddle Three leagues I chased your candle For your flame to kiss me once, a whip of wanting, And the cut still stings with lust. The heat...

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100 Theme Challenge–Playing the Melody

Theme: Playing the Melody Deck: Stars in Her Eyes Deal: giddy, beyond, streak, flushed, insistence I am your instrument Play me a giddy rhyme Like a girl with bright eyes Flushed and shy For her first...

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Not Lust

Poetry Poker, mixed decks deal: disgust, between, swear, stash, slide. Not Lust A silent conversation and my eyes slide, slide, slide to the spaces between all the pieces I’ve seen of you. I swear...

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