Shield Maiden

(Poetry Challenge Week 12) I've been collecting the dots The back of this leaf looks like the veins in my hand A bird's wing a spiderweb,...

(Poetry Challenge Week 11) French: Shiver Shivers tracing up my spine. Aesthetic chills, the memory of pleasure, buried in my skin as the...

(Poetry Challenge Week 10) We are treasures hidden in clay pots; perfectly sculpted and painted, to hide our seams. We are clay pots...

(Poetry Challenge Week 9) Definitely not my best work but Maya Angelou once said that you have to sit down and write every day even if...

(Poetry Challenge Week 8) (Note: This poem has nothing to do with the word tweeted, obviously. I made up the rules of the game which...

(Poetry Challenge Week 7) I'm not sure how good this one will be because it is as written while trying to make coffee on 3 hours of...

(Poetry Challenge Week 6) Clarity: Freedom from indistinctness and ambiguity It's clear now, like so many pieces of shattered glass...

(Poetry Challenge Week 5) Wind races down the valley rattling my windows. Bringing the scent of snow off the mountains, cutting the air...

(Poetry Challenge Week 4) You beat down on my heart, like a child with a drum. No sense of the timing, missing and adding beats....

(Poetry Challenge Week 3) I am left searching for the word that fled from the tip of my tongue. It tastes of blank space and too long...

(Poetry Challenge Week 2) Wednesdays are writing challenge days so here's this weeks poem Autumn at Sea Level as written in line at...

(Poetry Challenge Week 1) I guess I started with a hard prompt so I bent the rules a bit and it is more than ten words. Scroll down for...

Laurie Lamon, noted poet and professor at Whitworth University, once said to me, by way of saying it to her entire Women Writers...