Today’s sonnet is inspired by my bad habit of checking my phone constantly. In fact, as terrible as this is to admit, Twitter is one of my biggest sources for news. Not for the information itself, but as a launching …
The Black Lives Matter protests have been making me do a fair amount of personal soul-searching regarding my own education and interaction with Blacks. I had an excellent education for many reasons, not the least of which is that I …
I was supposed to be traveling to Uganda this week. Even to me, that fact is barely comprehensible. To be honest, even though I’m still planning to go on the trip, which has been tentatively rescheduled for next year, the …
Over the past two weeks in particular I’ve been contemplating the poet’s role as a prophetic voice, and in particular whether that’s part of my own calling with poetry. Let’s face it: I’ve written a handful of nature poems here …
This week is heavy. I don’t think I have any poems appropriate for it. So today you get a quick haiku and a favorite song. Lord, this is too much for us feeble ones to bear. Please, Lord. Come back …
Update, 6/6/20: I ran the marathon in 37:51, and together we raised $230 for the Dawn Treader! Amelia F. won the random drawing for donating, and Laure H. had the closest guess at 37:58. I’ll be contacting them both later …
First up: oh hey, I was interviewed for a poetry podcast! You can hear it (and the previous six episodes) here. In light of the podcast, I debated pretty heavily with myself about what poem to publish today. I thought …
I have no particular reason for sharing this poem today, other than that I was flipping through my old notebooks and liked it. I’ve never been one a person who needs many accolades. In fact, words of encouragement is probably …
Today’s sonnet is from last November’s poetry prompts; I think the exact prompt was [blank] of the [blank], and of course my mind immediately jumped to Monty Python. At the time my RPG group was playing a campaign that investigated …
I’ve been purposefully holding off on posting another Road to Uganda (aka missions trip nostalgia) poem because until this past week, I didn’t know what the current status was. It’s being postponed, of course. The decision was made for us …