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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

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

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

BE EVER SO KIND

In my nearly 30 year journey parenting my child with special needs, I've had much time to reflect on the juxtaposition between How I Thought Things Would Go and How Things Have Gone. How Things…

MelindaSeptember 17, 2022

Family Love Nature Parenting Spirituality

The Visitor

In the dark, a baby fox hoists her short legs one by trembling one up the steep stairs, tripping the sensor light as she reaches the back deck in a sharp-eyed heap of gray…

MelindaSeptember 8, 2022

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

A Little Bullish

I know, I know. Much is not right here in the world. We conjure and raise up hatreds and fears born of misconceptions. We bow down to profit and convention instead of the goodness in…

MelindaJune 23, 2022

Art Death and Dying Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

She Runs On

She Runs On and On, and On A whole lot of nothing happening here in the Department of Creation of New Poems, and so I sat down with DETERMINATION and began to write, the…

MelindaJune 20, 2022

Family Love Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Writing

Sixty Unplugged Minutes with my Love

I used a text to carve an island from a Thursday in two overloaded lives. I typed 10 to 11 Walk with me. Moose Hill. I meant Come. To the refuge down the road, the…

MelindaMay 5, 2022

Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga Yogabilities™

All This Joy, All This Sorrow

Monday, March 28, morning. It’s snowing as I write this. Big, fluffy flakes that arrive past the date of our northern hemisphere Spring equinox. I wonder if they know they won't accumulate. If they did…

MelindaMarch 28, 2022

The Shift

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She Runs On

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