Archive - poem is the rain

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I need to make sure none of you get hurt

Mar 18 •

November 2024

Small Children's First Paintings of Trees

and the David Booth Children's and Youth Poetry Award

Nov 9, 2024 •

July 2024

his name is electric

a dragon poem for Oscar

Jul 1, 2024 •

June 2024

Have you written that basketball poem yet?

"a poem is a collaboration between the writer and the poem itself" (paraphrasing Carol Ann Duffy)

Jun 10, 2024 •

May 2024

(& most human beings feel a minimum of 400 different feelings every day; don't worry you are normal)

May 24, 2024 •

Blue to match my books

& why does poetry make me so happy

May 3, 2024 •

February 2024

If I hadn't left, I wouldn't have found you

all about a keychain heart

Feb 15, 2024 •

July 2023

Jul 12, 2023 •

March 2023

Sensitive for Sale

And perhaps too much lack of coherence has been forgiven in me. And a long habit of mixing words and deserting my own thought for other thoughts in the…

Mar 8, 2023 •

January 2023

Even today we know that a toothy smile is different from a closed-mouth grin.

Jan 14, 2023 •

And Sister nibbled her nails. Nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble.

The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habit by Janice and Stanley Berenstain

Jan 10, 2023 •

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