Let me be the hearth  Where you sit to work your clay  I'll not say  "Shape it like this or that,"  I promise  ...

Bad Days on the Planet If it weren't for idle gossip there'd be no tongues to wag and if there weren't misfortunes no c...

http://hellopoetry.com/lone-wolf/ Pixie I want to be a pixie Not a fairy, Pixies are sensual Beautiful tricksters They flit arou...

they set my aunts house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like a five pound note. i called the boy who...

Funky blues Keen toed shoes High water pants Saddy night dance Red soda water and anybody's daughter

I am tickled pink to be able to share some fun news. Four anthologies from Western North Carolina Women Writers are now available in...

So. This happened yesterday. A Statement from Bruce Springsteen on North Carolina BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN · FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2016 As you, my fans...

It must've been one hell of a party The napkin with the mango lipstick kiss lay naked with promises on the hall floor. The pearl e...

"Lenoir–Rhyne University is a co-educational, private liberal arts university founded in 1891 and located in Hickory, North Caroli...

And as you stand there Sunshining all over our Rain Parade Voice cheering Toes tapping Eyes dancing Let us now praise you. You, ...

Pixie Queen Revisited I am the secret she keeps she lives partially in the shadows I could destroy everything for her everything th...

THIS has made me as mad as anything has ever made me.  THIS little love note appeared in my Facebook newsfeed today:  "Dear Sena...

MID LIFE WOMAN Mid life woman  you are not invisible to me. I seem to see beneath your face all the women you have ever been. Midlife wo...

Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily "Hit ...

The Invitation It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your he...

I love First Sunday of the Month! I get to play as "Oh, Kaye!" at Jungle Red. I hope you'll drop by -  http://www.jungle...

SNOW AND SNOW by  Ted Hughes  Snow is sometimes a she, a soft one. Her kiss on your cheek, her finger on your sleeve In early December, on ...

Some Rain Freud saw his first patient on a gray morning in Vienna; cobblestones glistened feebly. And it was pouring as Pollock dragged red ...

IN PRAISE OF THE GRUMPY And as you stand there Arms crossed Managing to look both infinitely patient and impatient at the sa...