I Did It! Thirty Posts in Thirty Days

I did thirty posts in thirty days. I hope I sprouted interest in poetry with my April posts.

One Art

One Art The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose someth…

Filling the Vase

My brother was the visiting writer at our NIWP retreat in McCall and an exerice he did about writing inspired this poem. The flowers are a reminder o…

Who

Who by Jane Kenyon These lines are written by an animal, an angel, a stranger sitting in my chair; by someone who already knows how to live without tr…

A Jar of Buttons

A Jar of Buttons This is a core sample from the floor of the Sea of Mending, a cylinder packed with shells that over many years sank through fathoms of s…

Easter is Hope: Images of Garden Valley Community Church

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness an…

A Garden Room

In the winter when the weather is freezing and snow blankets the gardens I like to do decorating in the house. When the sun comes out like it did to…

Happy Earth Day!

The earth is what we all have in common.-- Wendell Berry

Concerto for Early Spring: An Original Abecedian Poem

"An abecedarian poem is a special form of an acrostic poem , in which the initial letters of the words beginning each line or stanza spell out th…

Woman Who Loves Gardening

Woman Who Loves Gardening I have dirty nails and rarely paint them, living out my long growing season in the flower garden, trellises giving view to cl…