Poetry

Poetry is a wonderful gift to experience and share with others. Like many forms of creativity for me poetry is about getting myself out-of-the-way so that the words can flow. I describe the process of writing poetry as a nagging feeling or hunch that there is something there waiting to be expressed. Sometimes I am awake enough to notice that feeling and reach for a piece of paper and a pen.

The poems that surface are always a surprise, coming from different parts of me able to express my feelings or my aspirations in simple and moving language. I use my poems as sources of inspiration, as something to read during difficult moments, for enjoyment and most of all to be reminded of who I really am.

I will feature a poem from my collection each week on this page more of my poetry is listed in the poetry category.

my devotion story

there once was a woman

so free

she made the birds feel trapped

they would watch her and wonder

what it would be like to fly

this woman

so close at any moment to being a girl

that children would flock to her

just in case

they could have a chance to play

she soared

she soaked her body in tears

she laughed so hard

the thunder felt embarrassed

and the babbling brooks

stopped to hear her chatter

she marched like a tyrant

she frolicked like a deer

she swore like a sailor

and could make love for a whole year

she had a rhythm

a motion

that all around her would stop

and look

and wonder

where where where

could this woman have come from

and how how how

does she go on

the secret she told me

was her devotion

to breathing in and knowing love

and letting go with gratitude

devotion to joy

and listening to the stories

the gods tell

in their whispering ways