Watch any movie about an accident, and good cinematography will play the scene in slow motion. This is what it felt like as I sailed through air. I was aware of everything – the feeling of weightlessness before I landed, watching my dad drive away, believing he’d never know I was gone and I’d be lost forever.
I’m in my third semester of a creative writing class at my community college, which has been great for not only helping to improve my novel writing, but expanding the kinds of writing I’m doing. Poetry is one of these bonuses.
After a winter that lasted forever, the sun finally came out. So I wrote a quick lunch break poem about it.
“The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear…”
Small I am but a small grain of sand lying in a deep cave under a vast ocean rising and falling by the power of the moon which shines brightly through the night in a cloudless sky covering the earth in a mighty galaxy of an endless universe residing in the very left corner of …
Here’s a poem from my book, Everything I Am Not Saying.
Happy Love Day to all of you! Don’t have a Valentine? You can be mine. Here’s the title poem of my poetry book, “Everything I Am Not Saying,” from me to you. (Click on picture to expand)
The other day I showed a co-worker my new poetry book, Everything I Am Not Saying. She noticed I dedicated it to “Connor”, and wondered who that was. I told her he was my third child who died just a few months before he was supposed to be born. She and I connected over our …
***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Everything I Am Not Saying, my book of poetry, is now available for sale at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! With this book, I completely recommend getting the print version because, in my personal opinion, it’s a work of art. 🙂 But the eBook is a nice, less expensive way to read it, as …
I’m nearing the end of my week away from writing and editing. Though I wish I had learned how to sleep in a little better (old habits die hard), it was nice getting up in the 6 o’clock hour instead of the 5 o’clock hour. This week I finished a book from start to end. …