by Barbara Conrad | May 13, 2021 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Middle Box, The Written Word
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD On the Road to Dun Aengus On the Road to Dun Aengus Earthy smell of cattle dung and salty airas we bike along a path marked with stone walls,walls stacked some 3000 years ago. No one’s sweat but our own this day,and that of other...
by Ione (Tootsie) O’Hara | Apr 8, 2021 | The Written Word
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD Ode to Paper Cranes Sadako Sasaki, age two when the bomb fell on Hiroshima, became ill with leukemia ten years later. She folded 644 paper cranes. Japanese legendsays fold a thousandpaper cranesyour heart’s wishwill be granted My...
by Ione (Tootsie) O’Hara | Apr 8, 2021 | The Written Word
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD Night Music The sky’s alive with you. Millionsof warblers, finches, kinglets flyinto clouds that cover the moonand cross the strand of Milky Way. Scientists count you, record your migrationand calls far above my bed and pillows.You cross...
by Tara Marshall | Mar 9, 2021 | The Written Word, Top Middle Box
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD Tumbling I was tumbling. I was swirling like a leaf, aimlessly drifting after falling from its home. My thoughts stopped; taillights up ahead caused my right foot to jerk left and apply furious pressure to the brake. I laughed because I...
by Jody Seymour | Aug 18, 2020 | The Written Word
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD The Horizon A poem offered for these troubling times. The Horizon Above the darkness ofpresent realitycovers me likea cold blanketMy steps are slowand sad But as I look towardan edge of lightthere comes a kind ofinvitation:“Walk...
by Kristen Feighery | Aug 11, 2020 | The Written Word
Search for: THE WRITTEN WORD A Good Question The other day my sweet, wonderful daughter sighed, ‘Mom, I spend so much time learning how to relate to neuro typical people. How come they don’t spend time learning how to relate to me?’ Good question. A neuro typical...
