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  • Medium is a Great Way to get Your Poetry Noticed

    Here’s how! Hiya Fiddleheads! (That’s what I call my writer friends these days–out there nurturing your dreams and rising in the sun!) If you are interested in promoting your poetry, your articles, your photography, then this is the post for you. Where have I been lately? I have been on Medium, making a little money…

  • Fiddleheads & Floss–WHERE Did THAT Crazy Name Come From???

    Your gifts, YOU BEAUTIFUL FIDDLEHEAD YOU, are meant to be shared with the world. So RISE, unfurl, stand in the sun,, and share your creative spirit with those around you and BE YOUR TRUEST SELF!

  • Thoughts at 2:04 A.M. on Easter Morning (It’s called Grace.)

    To Creator of the worm of the earth, the soil and sky for all races and tongues, for all things that fly for all genders and generations, for mother earth for every living thing to have in Him a New Birth.

  • Domestic Abuse on a Good Friday

    20 Years ago today was the worst day of my life Twenty years ago today was the worst day of my life. Three days later as I stood in church with my children I remember very clearly a few things: My throat was damaged from being choked and I could not sing the hymns. I…

  • National Poetry Month Challenge — Poem # 3

    Old man Shoes I wrote this poem as a response to Intimately Intricate (on Medium)’s April Prompt: New Dawn. The poem was chosen for publication here: Intimately Intricate April Prompt New Dawn As is true of many poetry prompts, my poem will often take me into uncharted waters…in this poem I wrote from the perspective…

  • National Poetry Month Challenge–Poem # 2 Lightning

    Challenge: Write 10 poems this month to celebrate National Poetry Month. Lightning You were the cold air to my warm. Every time I tried to rise you crystalized dropped me down one terrifying electrical pulse after another. I charged and fell to the ground. The air outside is electric. I am drawn, mystified, bursts of…

  • National Poetry Month–Poem #1 “Safety Pin”

    Intent to impress folding under to shame, I begin my walking, My purse in tow, the shiny vehicle slows. No. Not the boss. I am thankful with verbiage Humiliated, I am Riding with a suit that costs more than my car

  • National Poetry Month

    National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home Dusting off the old blog… Late in February I made two decisions. First, I…

  • A poetic response to sexual abuse: Every parent MUST read this.

    Barney Rubble shouldn’t be touching little girls. Even at 5 years old I knew that was “icky” and just plain wrong. That minuscule little voice that spoke to me from somewhere between my head and my chest, said to get away from this icky man and his fat fingers, his gaping, stupid smile. (Trigger warning, this…

  • The Calf Song — a poem

    The Calf Song From the backside of a smileI rise, discontented. Inside my eyelids a dream sleepsbetween measureskeeping the beat,each a credulous mark upon my heart song. The calf lies waiting,wobbly legs unableto bear its load upon its hoof and foot. It stands, behind my eyesrising in ignorant content. It cannot sing my songor read…