Shield Maiden

Poetry Challenge Week 52! Congratulations everybody! You have survived ONE WHOLE YEAR of my poetry! The end. The last pen stroke across...

Poetry Challenge Week 51 (can you believe it? Week 51!) The whales are writing poetry about us.... Hidden, far below the surface of...

Poetry Challenge Week 50! We each have three names, some people say. One, we are given, fresh and new to wear as we set off down the...

Poetry Challenge Week 49 The memory of my first kiss hovers over my lips. A light tingle of memory holding back oceans, crashing waves of...

Poetry Challenge Week 48 One.... One Thousand Two... One Thousand I count the seconds waiting for a crash. The sky seems to darken after...

Poetry Challenge Week 47 (52 Weeks in a year means you only have to put up with this project for another month or so.) Make it simple....

Poetry Challenge Week 46 Do not stand too close to edge or you will slip through the cracks. Falling into the places in between, of our...

Poetry Challenge Week 45 Poem not found Poem not found Poem not found. How do you write against a sea of mounting apathy? Waves swell up...

Poetry Challenge Week 44 Borrowed Time Moments, Thoughts, Feelings, with the snap of a shutter. An instant, captured forever but only...

Poetry Challenge Week 43 I look out across the sea, depths I cannot imagine concealed by white haired waves, out to the distant line...

Poetry Challenge Week 42 Margins, the edge of the page, an impossible cliff with words balanced right on the edge. "Don't write in the...

Poetry Challenge Week 41 Take a piece of information and let it pour into your mind, The leaf shivering at the end of a branch, and the...

Poetry Challenge Week 40 The supplies all laid out I start to assemble the pieces. Tent poles, firewood, canvas spread out across the...

Poetry Challenge Week 39 What does disaster look like? The end of things can be just a new beginning. The monster hides beneath the bed...

Poetry Challenge Week 38 So... we're technically a week behind because I took a week off to hang out with kids in my favorite place, Camp...

Poetry Challenge Week 37 My memories are tainted with shades and hues of grey. Pieces lost and missing, broken shards of film.

Poetry Challenge Week 36 Sophistication You have to be sophisticated, to know who you call my lord and how to charm your way past the...

Poetry Challenge Week 35 Ping. It calls out of the nothingness, are you there? Can you hear me? Ping. It echoes in the starlight. I am...

Poetry Challenge Week 34 Twisting the thread, out, across, over, through. And tangling knots in rows of color. Out. Across. Over....

Poetry Challenge Week 33 What's it like to be invisible? To float through the ether unheard, unseen? The sun dazzles in my eyes, and I...