Daryl, I thank you for your astute comments and empathic perception of what it would be like to capture just one moment in time; a time long, long ago. I wanted to keep writing but something stopped me; it was […]

Tameka, I really enjoyed the tremendous compression in each haiku; how so very much can be said and, sometimes more profoundly, not said, is powerful imagination at its best. I may be wrong; I felt as if the […]

Lisa, this is what addicts call “the trigger” as it describes the process of preparation enough to start the euphoric recall which even after weeks of rehab, sends many junkies back out again with no thought of […]

Thank you for commenting Pamela, sorry it took so long! Yes, the dreams of people who, because of their occupation, are actually quite invisible to us.

Thank you so much for the trek, Robert. Defiant is exactly the tone I wanted to convey; although it isn’t until the end that I am “the errant child.” It is a play on habeas corpus; without knowing several of the […]

Thank you for enjoying reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it, Ron. As I told Edward, I actually drank a bottle of mead with a man many called “Merlin,” and, with his long, flowing white beard and ice-blue […]

Thank you , Edward, “Sunday Morning” by Stevens has always been one of my favorite poems. I wanted to go on, but it just wouldn’t have another word. Too many metaphors or images would have ruined the moment; […]

Captures the intensity and possession; and makes no whiny apologies; just blunt and honest and almost sexual. It would make a good poem if that extended metaphor of being alone with a lover was explored but it […]

This was dedicated to a magical person; one I imagined and one real combined. It does take a little magic to get us through each day whether we realize it or not. Thank you for your comments, Ron.

Ana it is an honor to share my work with a creative writer and artist; your comments mean so much to me. The photo is so perfect, as they all are, but this gives that divinity to the work I had never thought of […]

The extended metaphors of a family holding up the sky until the loss of a sister when The Three Sisters are no longer strong, implacable mountains but now, though nature is neither malevolent or benevolent; simply […]

I wish I could say deep and powerful and leave it at that, Ron, but you know I can’t. This poem is incredible! It is a Dali painting turned into words, I would love to see famous painting, “The Persistence of […]

Fun to play with words as your imagination truly is your playground, Neil. I enjou going back to your work when I need a quick break and just discovering what I thought was a swing is a slide and vice versa. And […]

As one of my favorite poets, Edward, I was looking forward to your feedback as I struggled for weeks with this most memorable adventure and how to take my readers along on what was actually two miles of long-line […]

Thank you so much Lisa! I worked on this for weeks, really, as I wanted to convey exactly what you described –it is impossible the way the sky looks twenty miles out in a boat so tiny there wasn’t even a head; […]

The idea of becoming as impatient and critical as my mother was the image I had; and I knew it wasn’t just that simple –the mythology of the snake swallowing its tale and thus becoming a symbol of eternity was […]

Now is the time to capture all this opportunity and you will never feel this alive again, Autumn Eliza, I know there is nothing more exciting than finding the support and appreciation of a creative community. […]

The joy and respite from “the madding crowd” is a creatively expressed poem so fresh I can almost feel the grass beneath my bare feet and hear the splash of the water in the lake. I love the poetry of Wordsworth […]

Thank you, Ron, I fell flat at the end as there is so very much I wanted to tell about; after working on it for weeks I thought I could not talk about pulling in 65 sharks or the entire long lining experience […]