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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

Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

NAMED

Someone asked me What is your name? To name is to make known, to specify, enliven, color in, to make dimensional. My surname: Verdant. Given name, Green and Round. Given by me, to me.…

MelindaMarch 28, 2018

Family Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Remembering my father 1. The night your own difficult breath awakened you, your lungs spent from trying, and you sensed your heart, that grieving well, slowing almost imperceptibly, and your legs and arms refused command…

MelindaMarch 15, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Writing

RESET

Reset This morning came twice to meet my wan welcome. There was pre-alarm almost-dawn when my eyelids were leaden, fingers numb after some sleep asana, and there was no joy in me to power the…

MelindaMarch 1, 2018

Art Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

The Poet Says….

Allow me to share a poem that debuted on the Songs of Eretz Poetry Review this morning. This is the third of my poems to be published there in the Last week. All three are…

MelindaFebruary 26, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Returning to Autismville

Good day! Below, the second of three of my poems that are eligible for the Readers Choice Award over at Songs of Eretz. Here is the poem, along with the Editor's words and poets…

MelindaFebruary 21, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

7 AM, Redux

Dear Reader, I'm so pleased to share my first of three finalist poems from the Songs of Eretz poetry contest. Though I didn't win first place this year, each finalist poem is eligible for the…

MelindaFebruary 20, 2018

Poem Poetry Uncategorized Writing

Tenure

I offer you gifts of words newly strung and tender, strong and sometimes proud, words that are still humming with the cadence of my beating heart from which poems burst forth onto the page. I…

MelindaFebruary 8, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Writing

Lavender

When overwhelmed, lavender. When nerves fray, pockets empty, mind seems a tangle of wires, crossed and stripped— lavender. When ears ring, head throbs, eyes tire and lose focus from the too-muchness of it all— lavender.…

MelindaFebruary 1, 2018

Bink Writing

Putting My Foot Down

Putting my Foot Down I’m no stranger to disability. I’ve been Bink’s mom for 25 years. I know lots of individuals with varied special needs, some of them my Yogabilities™ students. I count a few…

MelindaJanuary 26, 2018

Am I blue?

NAMED

Deliverance