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Death and Dying Healing Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues

A 2022 Story, Part 5

A 2022 Story You can read part four here: htts://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-4/ Part 5 Little Stream wasn’t sure Lily Pond had heard her question, so she asked again. “Wee Lily Pond, do you think there…

MelindaFebruary 24, 2023

Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Nature Women's Issues Writing

a 2022 Story, Part 4

You can read part three here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/?p=2948 Part 4 Little Stream and Wee Lily Pond bounced amicably against each other as they were rushed along in Big River’s mighty flow. “So, how’d you get…

MelindaJanuary 28, 2023

Death and Dying Family Healing Parenting Writing

First Digit Singular

This Is What Really Happened Trigger warnings: Run-on sentences. Querulousness. Thirteen days ago I had my thumb joint reconstructed. This was elective and a long time coming—both carpo-metacarpals whittled down to bone on bone,…

MelindaJanuary 22, 2023

Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 3

A 2022 Story Part 3* Nudge, nudge. Tap, tap. There it was again! A pattern, far from random. Little Stream was weary from the effort of holding herself together for an unknown number of suns…

MelindaJanuary 16, 2023

Death and Dying Mindfulness Nature Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 2

Little Stream Part 2* Little Stream could feel herself being pushed and pulled and hurried along in Big River’s watery trajectory. For the first time in her flowing life she lost track of the passage…

MelindaJanuary 7, 2023

Death and Dying Mindfulness Nature Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story

There was a little stream—more of a rivulet, really—that dribbled and dripped and murmured along through a swath of untamed land. Many moons and suns cast their light upon her waters as she found…

MelindaDecember 31, 2022

Art Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

The Shift

art: Moon Goddess by Melinda Coppola, done in watercolor. On my best days I do dwell in gratitude and I experience most everything as a blessing. My poem, "The Shift", attempts to give voice…

MelindaNovember 18, 2022

Love Nature Poem Poetry Singing Women's Issues Writing

Night Upon the Prairie

My poem, Night Upon the Prairie, was published in Writing in a Woman's Voice poetry journal yesterday. While writing this I channeled singer/songwriter energies. If I had learned to play guitar, I think this one…

MelindaNovember 5, 2022

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

First Digit Singular

The Shift

Night Upon the Prairie

The Life Cycle of a Day

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