Melinda

Poem Poetry Writing

Inch by Inch

Dear small band of loyal readers, I'm pleased to share that my poem, Reset, has placed second in the Light of the Stars poetry contest sponsored by Lone Stars magazine, and appears in the Spring 2019…

MelindaApril 9, 2019

Autism Bink Writing

April is…

I'm truly grateful to be here to greet another April. It's such a hopeful month, with spring springing up everywhere. This month is also known as Autism Awareness Month. To those who love someone who…

MelindaApril 3, 2019

Family Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Our small eyes

Perchance Perhaps nothing begins or ends, not exactly. The field mouse knows the tall grass to be her world. We say morning comes, and yet it is always somewhere, just not in the very front…

MelindaMarch 11, 2019

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

To Sleep, Perchance to Wake and See the Stars

Bink does not sleep solidly through the night, ever. When she was younger it was especially challenging, because she'd wake up and need me to be right there with her, and she'd often be up…

MelindaFebruary 18, 2019

Art Family Love Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Love is a Rendering

Love is a Rendering Telling you how I love you is like trying to find things that haven’t been said about the ocean. My hands prefer to paint it— affection, water— sweeping, striped backgrounds,…

MelindaFebruary 14, 2019

Family Nature Poem Poetry Singing Writing

Daisy Bell

I'm showing my age, and proudly, when I ask this—do you remember the sweet old song called Daisy Bell? "Daisy, Daisy, tell me your answer, do/ I'm half crazy all for the love of you..."…

MelindaFebruary 11, 2019

Poem Poetry Writing

There’s no write time

BLOCKED This morning the mirrorcaught my eyes,and I locked gazewith the creature staring back at me, wondering, as I sometimes do,what would happenif I opted not to claim her. If I chose a different identitywould the…

MelindaFebruary 6, 2019

Nature Writing

Dreamed some dreams

"A DREAM NOT INTERPRETED IS LIKE A LETTER NOT READ." -- The Talmud Last was a night of serial dreams, each building on the tangled mysteries of the one before. There was big sky, and…

MelindaJanuary 16, 2019

Art Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing

In praise of song

SONG STORIES You open your mouth and out pours a river carrying the rhythms of fluids— blood and lymph, tears, synovial. It is current, and source, keeper of…

MelindaJanuary 2, 2019

Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing Yoga

Receiving the darkness

The word solstice was born from the Latin sol ( sun) and sistere ( to stand still). Solstice, winter This darker interlude could be a meditation, a reckoning with the deceptive nature of time. The…

MelindaDecember 22, 2018