NOTE: Please, please, PLEASE if you know my brother or his fiance, do not disclose this project to them. I am rather certain neither of them are on Facebook or blogger or anything else right now, so I am going to step out on a limb and ask for a little feedback about this sonnet,ContinueContinue reading “A Lily Kind of Love”
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Picture Book
I don’t like my title. Oh well.Picture BookHis gentle dumb expression turnd at lengthThe Eye of Eve to mark his play; he gladOf her attention gaind, with Serpent TongueOrganic, or impulse of vocal Air,His fraudulent temptation thus began.- Book 9, lines 527-531, Paradise Lost by John MiltonMy children identify animals,name and order according to theirContinueContinue reading “Picture Book”
Fruit
I almost didn’t write a poem tonight because, well, I’m lazy. And my body said no. But since my body didn’t have to do much to write and since I followed the lead of a friend to make the “Mosaic of Me” on Facebook (which should technically appear below), I decided there had to beContinueContinue reading “Fruit”
In Our Backyard
… a tentative title… and, as all poems go with April PAD, a work in progress. It was time for a poem about my brothers :)In Our BackyardIn our backyard, we were always digging.We needed to practice the artof going deeper, how best to slantthe shovel, step, jump – open up the earth,dump and siftContinueContinue reading “In Our Backyard”
Rappelling
**POOF!**
PAD Challenge and Creek Walk
April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, I’ve decided to again take up the challenge to write a poem-a-day. I altered the challenge a bit last year to only happen on the weekdays unless I felt particularly inspired on the weekends, so I will likely stick to these guidelines again this year. My kidsContinueContinue reading “PAD Challenge and Creek Walk”
Sarah Marie Wells 