Words,

torn to shreds like paper

and torched just the same.

Words,

taught in classroom filled with little kids

with pencils and paper and dreams.

Words,

are only words without an eraser

like a dagger,

is only a dagger without regret.

Counting Time #7
Minute goes by minute
-- tiny minute fractions
of the day by long slow day
I scratch off my calendar.

Why ( Read more... )

Entries for "Poems in Your Pocket" are rolling in and I am excited.

I also have an update on the prizes.  There will be Visa Gift Cards,  $25.00  for 1st place, $15.00 for second place and $10.00 for third place.     I didn't want to do Amazon because I believe in supporting your local bookstore, however you can spend the gift cards on anything ( Read more... )

April is National Poetry Month and April 30, 2009 is the second annual "Poem in Your Pocket Day ( Read more... )

 I won 1st place in short story contest in Haunted Love category for Love Everlasting. at Raphael's Village.  My pen name is Joyce Williams. You can read the story here

Looking back over my childhood, I realize I had the perfect mother for the fifties. There was no way of her or I knowing that the following decade would bring the sexual revolution, women’s liberation, and the culture of doing your own thing. Not that my mother was perfect, no mother is except the TV moms of that era, Donna Reed, Jane Wyatt, ( Read more... )

It's hard not to let a cliche slip into your writing, they sneak in when you least expect it.  There are so many cliches they are hard to escape.  One night just for fun our family took turns listing cliches that contained animals.  We were amazed at how many we found.  Here are just a few. Can you name any?

• Blind as a bat
• Hungry as a bear.
• Dog days ( Read more... )

I hate you ( Read more... )

    Ethan Reueken is haunting me or I am having delusions of a psychiatric kind. Our last conversation occurred over twenty years ago, it was brief yet long enough for me to realize Ethan would forever be an unpaid tenant of my heart. Of course, there were times when I was sure any remnant of feelings for him were gone, then I discovered that I ( Read more... )

Christmas is not merry for someone who is spending their first Christmas alone, after having a spouse or loved one sharing their holidays for years.  I hope if you know someone in this position you will pass this information on, and help them get over the feeling. 

This used to be one of the hardest groups for me to find suitable gifts.  Over the years I came up with the following list.  Would love to hear your suggestions also. Gifts for Seniors