After I wrote the previous post about The Waiting Place – and coincidentally thinking about poetry – I remembered that one of my favorite poems from high school was “Still Here” by Langston Hughes. I’m not generally a fan of poetry, but sometimes a poem says more than any 1,000-wor...
I drive past his house regularly, and while I’m glad he recently took down the “F**K BIDEN” signs (note that his did not include asterisks) he still has up several similar signs using language I was not allowed to use growing up. His tag line on the yard signs is “I will be...
Recently, at Poetic Bloomings, we had a prompt that involved clouds. Coincidentally, that morning I had a visual as I pulled out of my driveway and faced the eastern sky. A mountain range had suddenly appeared overnight. This prompted, of course, a poem that began, then formed in my ...
is so ignorant about the autism spectrum that he said, “And these kids will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.” When that ...
Stephen Ternullo (no publicly available site). I drive past his house regularly, and while I’m glad he recently took down the “F**K BIDEN” signs (note that his did not include asterisks) he still has up several similar signs using language I was not allowed to use growing up. His...