The sun is shining over the flowers my grandfather planted. They're still growing, long after he died in 1995. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s February’s poem. We can breathe again, out here in the open.Drink in lemonade sunlightbecause each one of us has … Continue reading Poem: Outside
Category: Poetry + Fiction
Once upon a time, there was a girl who escaped the Village. She ran a lighthouse. Her friends who escaped their own villages to live in freedom helped her build it. The first friend that the girl met outside the Village was the mermaid, and she found her because she loved the sea. The mermaid … Continue reading Farewell to the Mermaid
I read two slam poems this month at the LogOn Cafe poetry slam. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s January’s poem. It’s September again,and I feel autumn rushing through my fingertipslike frozen yellow leaved sunshineand I remember when I drank your words like water.That … Continue reading Poem: September Again
Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived in a lighthouse, next to a rocky coastline. The lighthouse girl often entertained travelers seeking shelter from storms and pulled the shipwrecked out of murky waters. But one of the most interesting friends she met after she left the Village was not either of these. … Continue reading The Fairy in the Cocoon
Another friend blended her own story into Cynthia Jeub's lighthouse story and my lighthouse girl story. Reprinted with permission. Once upon a time there was a tea maker. She was a very ordinary tea maker, but she did have one unusual skill: she was very good at matching the tea to the people that ordered … Continue reading The Tea Maker and the Lighthouse Keeper
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