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Free Write Friday – Synchronicity

Posted on April 19, 2013 16 Comments

This week’s prompt has a special significance for me, although Kellie has not made any claims to being psychic. So, that is why I have named this poem – Synchronicity “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot […]

Gold – the Ghazal Series

Posted on April 14, 2013 6 Comments

This first ghazal was written in 2001, the revision 2011, with recent changes. Yes, constructive criticism or preferences are welcome. Gold – #1 Sadly sweetly surrenders autumn’s gold to winds that wildly sunder lovely leaves of gold. Warm and cold the days change like the wind But no one now wanders in search of gold. […]

Free Write Friday – Stormy Night

Posted on April 12, 2013 21 Comments

It’s Friday again, and Kellie Elmore has inspired another short short story for Free Write Friday. Today’s prompt was the above photo. Enjoy. She no longer heard his words. It was always her fault. Ever since the second miscarriage everything was her fault, nothing she did was right. It was her fault they were lost that she […]

Dream II – The Ghazal Series

Posted on April 7, 2013 9 Comments

This is the second version of the first ghazal I posted a few weeks ago. The encouraging reception I have received to poems I have posted has encouraged me to work on putting together a book. So, any constructive criticism is welcome at any time. Dream II Savor soft sweet taste of delight in a […]

My Story and Poem of Meditation

Posted on March 31, 2013 7 Comments

I sat alone in the small dark Poettential Unlimited Poetry Theatre in Harlem with my eyes closed, resting in its silence when a circular light appeared in my mind’s eye. Years later, Grandmama, the woman in his home I was staying in Los Angeles, one morning handed me a tabloid sized journal. I did a […]

Keepsake

Posted on March 22, 2013 14 Comments

It’s Free Write Friday again. Had to pass on last week’s because we were traveling. This one is a bit of wordplay but touches the heart of the prompt provided so kindly by Kellie Elmore For the sake of keeping when nothing can be held forever or held onto Even memory declines and fades in the […]

Thank You Haiku to My Readers

Posted on March 17, 2013 14 Comments

In the past few weeks the kind comments I’ve received from many readers, and an increasing number of likes have made me feel that my writing is reaching and touching readers and fellow writers. So today, I want to thank all of you who take time to read my poetry, stories, and occasional observations. I […]

Ghazal #1 – The Imperfect Rhyme Scheme

Posted on March 10, 2013 9 Comments

The Ghazal (pronounced ghuzzel) is a poetic style from the Middle East which I learned about in 2001. I wrote only a few and then revised several of them years later. This is the first one I wrote and I don’t know if it’s a revision or not. I called it imperfect, because this one […]

Free Write Friday – Yellow

Posted on March 8, 2013 30 Comments

This week’s prompt me took me to an unexpected place.Thanks to KellieElmore.com for another intriguing prompt. Yellow The room filled with yellow light and she felt herself ascending into the light like a feather on a wind current of energy swimming in a sea of emotions beyond space and time into an infinite sphere of softness […]

Revolution – A Poem

Posted on March 3, 2013 13 Comments

This is the last poem I will share from my book published in 1974. I think it is appropriate for the state of the world today. It is sad to see that even in the 21st century with unbelievable advances in technology and science, human beings continue to handle disagreements with violence, continue to believe […]