Unashamed Writing

I love Rumi’s poetry. Many times it leaves me in awe with its simplicity, beauty, and raw power. This week I found some passages that bothered me. For the most part though, I think it’s the kind of writing that can’t leave anyone untouched. Here is an example. I want to be where your bare […]

I was in a dark mood when I started this poem. I got stuck after the first two stanzas and decided to mow the lawn instead. As usual, physical effort got rid of some of the gloom. Hence, the verses about mind tricks and getting drunk. I still like how it turned out: half serious, […]

Not long ago, Periodically Demented (my friend PD) posted a link to a very emotional poem: My Yesterday written by Souldier Girl. That poem inspired PD to write a series of short stories about abuse, emotional damage, and healing. The stories are not edited but are well written and very powerful nonetheless. That’s because PD has […]

Yesterday I saw a link for an article about survivors of World War II. Part of the caption for that link was, “the lucky ones died.” Those four words were enough to make me emotional. The article in itself was a lesson … or a powerful reminder about what life really is about. Last night […]

A couple of weeks ago, Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge was to come up with the opening sentence for a story. This is my (updated) sentence: “They say to err is human; to forgive, divine – they got the second half of that sentence all wrong.” I was going to write a short story about […]

If I could stop writing poems, I would. I’m not kidding. I don’t ever come to my computer with the goal of writing a poem. Rather, I’m in the middle of something, most of the time reading, or riding my bike, and the idea for a poem hits me out of nowhere (which is a pretty […]

This poem started earlier today as a joke. I decided to put some weight on it. Five minutes later … voila! Silence and Sounds. It’s still supposed to be half-funny. Or at least light hearted. That’s why I used the word “darned” in there instead of the more serious “damned”. Enjoy! Silence and Sounds By […]

I was riding my bicycle today, when the idea for a poem hit me out of the blue. I was still about thirty minutes away from my destination, so I had to force myself not to think about the poem. I realized a few weeks ago that if I think of something I want to […]

I wrote another simple poem. This one was prompted by some verses in a song I heard the other day. I have no clue who sang the song, or what its title was, but the words that stood out to me were: “I love you the way you are, not the way you ought to […]