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Another Drawing Talks to Me

I am recovering nicely from December foot surgery. Even as I am able to do more, the little colored pencil drawings I made when I was entirely couch-bound continue to talk to me. Perhaps it…

MelindaFebruary 11, 2025

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Up and Out

Up and Out More garrulous gazing at the navel of the world. It was morning, one of a long string of them spent on the couch, post-surgical leg consistently elevated. My eyes lifted to my…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2025

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The View from the Couch

The View from the Couch Day 18 of a projected 56 before my left sole can again greet the floor. Shoulder and neck—also left side—still quite cranky and challenging my intention to be positive and…

MelindaDecember 30, 2024

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To hear me read this, click below: This poem was published last week in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, a beautiful publication available here: Listen Sharing my home with four-legged Zen masters— liquid beings…

MelindaOctober 22, 2024

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Eloquence as Legacy

My mother Victoria took prolific notes. Her handwriting was an elegant cursive, quite different from my chicken scratch (that even I have difficulty deciphering sometimes). She penned lovely postcards during her travels. Clever greeting cards…

MelindaJuly 1, 2024

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Still, After Years

This is the Love Poem, Mid-Life for Super Guy "Who, being loved, is poor?" --Oscar Wilde Remember the night I woke moaning, ankles on fire, some ghost gripping my arches, preventing even a twitch of…

MelindaFebruary 14, 2024

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The Continuing Saga of Little Stream

A 2022 Story Part 11 You can read part 10 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/little-stream-an…22-story-part-10 Part 11 “Lily Pond?” Little Stream called out again and again without answer into the bright air. Her voice was thin and…

MelindaFebruary 7, 2024

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Old into New

The Boathouses, Acrylic on canvas by Melinda Coppola Natura Illustratio Nature is a picture book of wisdom and example, an illustrated guide to how we could arrive, and live, and die. Take, for…

MelindaJanuary 2, 2024

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Little Stream and Wee Lily Pond ( A 2022 story, part 10)

A 2022 Story You can read part 9 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-9/ Part 10 It was dark, so very dark. Moonless and sunless. In a tunnel of deafening noise Little Stream’s watery body rolled and…

MelindaDecember 15, 2023

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Grandma Moses Speaks to My Lengthening Years

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, aka Grandma Moses, is one of my inspirations. I do enjoy the quiet beauty of her landscapes that hearken back to what many consider simpler times, but what really captivates me…

MelindaOctober 10, 2023

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