wordswimmer

Prompts for poems can come from anywhere. An unexpected letter from a college friend that triggers a memory. A slant of light that rekindles...

Each day is like opening a book and finding another poem waiting for you sunlight or clouds on the page shadows or raindrops the sound of th...

Some days words come unbidden sailing onto the page like tiny boats blown by the wind. Some days the page remains blank, empty, like a cloud...

Each morning you reach for words  without knowing where to look  like a blind man pawing the air  hoping to find something to hold onto, som...

Where do you go to find words?  Is there a store you can drive to in the mall and  purchase them by the dozen? Or is it like going to a deli...

There’s a lake about two miles away from our house, and, after sitting at my desk all day, I felt the need to stretch my legs and decided...