wordswimmer

You sit waiting  for your heart to open, to reveal the words  you need to write, like waiting for a blossom  to push its green shoots up  ou...

Where do you look  for poems, for stories, where do you find the words  you need to write, where are they hiding, waiting  for you to discov...

No matter how many poems you’ve read or how many pages you’ve turned, no matter how many rhymes and line breaks you’ve heard, no matter ...

Waiting for words to appear on the page my pen poised above a blank sheet of paper like a heron patiently watching the water as smooth as th...

When you’re trying to write, it’s critical to set aside a space of your own that has no distractions, a place where you can let your imagina...

If you want your words to sing on the page you need to keep harmonizing,  keep testing different notes, trying different combinations of ...

A morning of starts and stops of false beginnings of missteps trying to find my footing on a path I can’t see working through silence hoping...

Thanks to the Divine Source of words where all words begin their journey into the world. Thanks for the desire to write and for the imagina...

Before you put pen to paper you listen for a voice, for words,  for something-- a sound, an image, anything-- but hear nothing  except silen...

You need to listen closely to what’s in your heart even if you can’t always understand the language it’s speaking. You can feel it be...

I remember sitting at my desk years ago, alone in my college dorm room, staring at the typewriter’s unmoving keys beneath my fingers and the...