Linda's Poems

I'm wondering if there was a storm out in the ocean over the weekend that produced these huge waves. I was here on Saturday and the ocea...

My Tribe Kylie is in the guest room with Danielle playing a game, their voices like Christmas bells ringing in my heart. My husband...

Hallway to Death She drank a bottle of vodka after the doctor refused to give her any more Percosets. We found her on the floor ...

The old woman fumbles with the bandage wrapped around her wounded wrist like the pain pills and booze she wraps her mind in to stop ...

Carol and I took a stroll through her garden. The tomatoes were ripening in front of us in the warm September sun. In the house her...

My father-in-law is staying with us while waiting for a spot in an assisted-living facility. He had a mild stroke earlier in the sum...

Who’s that man standing with his arms wide open, tears in his eyes, and a smile on his face? Oh, it’s my dad welcoming my mom. He’s ...

The orange sun was floating like a big balloon on the horizon when I went out for a walk one morning last week in Florida. I was t...

Growing up in a Catholic family meant no meat on Fridays. It seems that about eighty percent of our meals on that night consisted of a sauce...

Monday May 10, 2010 I've been thinking of my dad lately.  He died 13 years ago today.  When I saw this headline a couple weeks ago in ...

Blue eyes Brown eyes Skin like satin Skin like suede Sitting up straight Sitting hunched over Talking about Twilight Talking about Paul ...

Poem Starting with a Line from Norman Dubie You wondered about skin wrinkled by looking at jewels I’ll tell you about those wrinkles ...

A couple weeks ago, ReadWritePoem challenged us to write 5 poems about one subject so I remembered back to when I was a kid and the comforti...

The table is set with Mom’s dinnerware you remember the ones with the gray roses tipped with a blush of pink to match the tableclo...

We were out hunting, the woods all golden, two parents and four kids walking along a skidder trail. I spied a bird high on his perch,...

The Rock Queens Michelle 9 in her horse T-shirt Tori 8 in pink ruffled tank bored decided to sell rocks one day at...

The Evolution of a Nickname The ocean, blue sky, sailboat Nathan just learning to talk My father-in-law, “Say Grampa” pronounced...

Displaced I remember sitting in back of the rocking chair as you soothed Nancy to sleep, hard, black rockers under my four-yea...

Because I'm on vacation, I was able to check the three words nice and early. Unfortunately, what I saw was Thom's rough draft before...

My maternal grandmother was always a very stern woman and I love this picture of her smiling with my mom. My grandfather, Pepere, was suc...