Linda's Poems

Shells She's wearing her Hello Kitty bathing suit today. We walk along the beach at Cayo Costa State Park in Florida. We are l...

Kylie and I went to the movies and because she has an affinity for chocolate, I bought her a box of Sno Caps. We sat in the unnatural mo...

I caught the pink wedge of dawn with my camera this morning. Our cold northern sky was trying hard to evade the sun but, for a few m...

The Perfection of a Four-year-old Kylie is working on math in an activity book. 7-3=? Seven fingers go up in the air and three get...

Celebration “Grammy, can you sing me a song”? says Kylie as we snuggle in bed. So I sing “On the Good Ship Lollipop” again and again...

Kylie and I are snug in a recliner watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When Snow White is in her glass coffin, I think of my mo...

Laundry When Kylie comes to visit, I like to wash her clothes and hang them on the line. Her little Levis next to Grampy’s: long ...

Flies land like raindrops on the mirror canal. A foot-long fish jumps for supper making the reflection of trees shimmer. Evening se...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life t...

I wrote this one this morning while watching the news on television and watching my granddaughter sleep in between my husband and me while t...

I wrote at least three "first" poems this week and they were all terrible. So... I wrote this over three years ago just after ou...

I have no idea how to incorporate sound for my poetry so here's a poem I wrote about my granddaughter, Kylie's, ...

My granddaughter's name is Kylie so when I gave my poetry-writing students the assignment of taking a letter and meditating on it, K cam...

We made it back from our trip to Florida then had company for four days. I haven't been very inspired for almost a month, now, and it wa...

For Writer's Island - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Colors Blue and trucks, racecars. No pink, certainly. Convinced yo...

For TOP January 31, 2008 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The bathroom needs to be cleaned, laundry needs to ...

We'll be going out of town this weekend so I won't have a chance to write a new poem. This is the first one that popped into my hea...

Sunday Scribblings for December 23, 2007 Two years ago, my grandaughter was born just before Christmas. Here's a cinquain about that ...

This is my first post for 3WW. I just recently discovered blogging and the wonderful poets in poetry blog world. I'm having a blast visi...