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Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry

These Monikered Months

A month of daffodils is upon us. Yay, spring!! April has been branded both Autism Awareness Month and National Poetry Month. Here you go, then, a post that covers both. I’ve shared this poem before,…

MelindaApril 2, 2024

Family Love Nature Parenting Poem Poetry

I’m so pleased that my poem, “Farther”, which I share with you below, was just published in the Spring 2024 issue of Metonym Literary Journal. Metonym is a print journal, available for sale through their…

MelindaMarch 14, 2024

Autism Bink Family Healing Hope Love Parenting Poetry Writing

Anxiety, the unwelcome house guest (who never seems to leave).

An older painting I did of Bink stimming at the beach. Agita Sometimes I think there four of us making a life inside this sweet gray house. Add the felines, we make a quirky…

MelindaFebruary 28, 2024

Family Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Writing

A Tale of Two Motorists

Poem for the Pissed-Off Driver I have a third eye that sees beyond your scowl, man-behind -the-wheel who couldn’t bear to wait when I slowed to turn right and so zoomed past, horn blaring,…

MelindaFebruary 20, 2024

Family Parenting Singing Uncategorized

Pippi

For the most part, my childhood nourished my creativity and sense of wonder. I feel so fortunate to have come up in a time before cell phones and social media. My knowledge of screens…

MelindaNovember 11, 2023

Death and Dying Family Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Rhyming to Death

I started writing poetry when I was 8 or 9. My first notebooks were full of rhyme, crude as it may have been. Over the years my writing morphed into rambling narrative free verse. From…

MelindaSeptember 20, 2023

Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

Hush

I'm pleased that my poem, " Hush", was published in Amethyst Review today. Hush Is it by aging alone that I landed in this sparse, harsh forest, where most branches are sharp, all bark…

MelindaJune 8, 2023

Autism Bink Healing Parenting Poem Poetry Singing

(She is) Unbroken

Unbroken There were times I imagined you different. My young mother mind pictured you— normal, typical, non-disabled. I can’t use those words anymore for their opposites evoke— lack, absence, tragedy, and you, my child, are…

MelindaJanuary 31, 2023

Autism Bink Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

The Life Cycle of a Day

Bink and I walk outside a lot. We are blessed with a number of parks and nature sanctuaries in our area, and we know some of them quite well. This poem stemmed from a particular…

MelindaOctober 2, 2022

Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

Why Poetry Matters

I’m so pleased to share that my poem “Nobody” was published in Thimble Literary Journal today. You can read it by clicking on this link: https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2022/08/09/nobody/ My writing process is anything but logical. Sometimes it…

MelindaSeptember 24, 2022

These Monikered Months

Farther

Anxiety, the unwelcome house guest (who never seems to leave).

Rhyming to Death

The Life Cycle of a Day

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