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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

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

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

Slack Satori

The Hand of God by Melinda satori \ sə-ˈtȯr-ē n (Buddhism) Zen Buddhism the state of sudden indescribable intuitive enlightenment • Hmmm. Tell a creative (poet, artist, musician, sculptor) that something is indescribable, and chances…

MelindaAugust 14, 2022

First Digit Singular

The Shift

Night Upon the Prairie

The Life Cycle of a Day

Slack Satori

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