Poetry

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 example, a leaf in spring. It draws from mother tree the energy…

MelindaSeptember 25, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality

Thalassophile’s Lament, August

That place I left my last glass of calm, tabled and shimmering like the Sun himself had reached down and swished his mighty steamy hand in its vitalizing…

MelindaAugust 30, 2018

Art Cairns Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

The art that blesses my listening hands

Making Art with Beach Stones My home hums with them–— the smooth and rough, pale and dark, striped, speckled, some with lines, or bits of mica mesmerizing the…

MelindaAugust 27, 2018

Autism Family Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

The Bus Stop Moms From my morning window I would watch as they huddled casually, tossed light conversation back and forth, an occasional eye towards their kids who played and laughed together, finding sticks, tracing…

MelindaAugust 1, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Praise at the end, for beginning there

A Prayer, Fertile For all the beginnings we cultivate from seeds, lay to cradle in the richest earth, give moisture with our tears, our sweat and handfuls of rainwater like offerings to the deities we…

MelindaJuly 23, 2018

Poetry Writing

I Write You, I Write You Not

I was thinking about not-writing, which is a special collection of behaviors called Really Uncomfortable Avoidance To Silence The Singing Muse, or RUTS for short. It is practiced by word gatherers of all kinds; novelists,…

MelindaJuly 16, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

So many ways to say it. Be Here Now.

Between Opening the red door to a new spring day. my feet greet crumbs of last year’s leaves, dotted with recent, light green pollen all swirled into the little cove,…

MelindaMay 18, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Today’s Truth

We all have challenges, right? Bink has rocky periods, when her anxiety rises and OCD rears its particularly ugly head. There is no easy or quick fix for these times, though we try many things.…

MelindaMay 10, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yogabilities™

Poetry, Autism, and Statistics, Oh My!

Hello! I'm happy to share that my poem, Autismville, won the Songs of Eretz Readers Choice Award Contest, and another of my poems, 7 AM, came in second! If you'd like to see the official…

MelindaApril 5, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Am I blue?

Hello, I'm re-posting this poem I wrote last year about Autism Awareness Day, which is April 2. If you know someone with autism, today is a great day to acknowledge them. Tomorrow works, too, or…

MelindaApril 1, 2018

Natura Illustratio

Thalassophile’s Lament, August

The art that blesses my listening hands

Mothering Outside the Lines

Praise at the end, for beginning there

I Write You, I Write You Not

So many ways to say it. Be Here Now.

Today’s Truth

Poetry, Autism, and Statistics, Oh My!

Am I blue?

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