Linda's Poems

twine, conjure, nest, carry, spirits, bend through, curl, trinkets, neglect, cap, back, sigh ------------------ Toes and Basil I can...

Thursday November 18, 2010 These Were the Reasons to Stay Twilight when the air is flannel. You come home and we sit in the hug o...

Tuesday June 7, 2011 I Carried It in My Pocket We'd been fighting tossing words back and forth at each other. Did you ever noti...

The boat rocks. Birds fly around eating the chum my husband put out. We sit, waiting for a tuna to take our bait. "I blind th...

There is only one little smear of morning sunlight left on my kitchen floor.   I woke up too late to enjoy a couple hours of solitude...

Canteloupe sky behind a palm tree jostles my eyes awake. The remnant of last night's disappointment shrinks as the sun peeks f...

On Our Fortieth Anniversary The old VCR tape is stuck in the machine. If I press play it growls at me. If I hit eject nothing happ...

Language Phrases of accusation like bombs exploded in my brain all day. I ranted a ribbon of griefs to the bed as I changed it an...

I packed a few things in a paper bag ran out to the car and raced off quickly before you noticed. My phone rang almost immediately....

Betrayal The wind takes my breath and flings it down the beach out of reach one breath after another stolen gone I suck on emptines...

She wrote this in her notebook: It’s a hole A big black hole No way around The scent of dead bodies No bridge No ladder to climb down...

I like to slide out of bed early like a letter out of an envelope without bumping anything so he won’t wake up. But he stirs and...

We were watching Julia Stiles as Katarina and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona in 10 Things I Hate About You. Patrick says to Kat, “I be...

He started by running his finger along her thigh to make her gasp. By that time she was awake and knew there was no way she could sli...

We stopped at Juicy Lucy’s for hamburgers on our way to the boat. I ate mine knowing I was adding to my figure. It’s so hard to say no...

Tried to write a tritina instead of a sestina.  It sort of worked! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Save your ridicule. It’ll only make m...

Swallowed the bait whole then jumped around for a while~ another victim MY HUSBAND’S DIABOLICAL LURING Another victim swallows the allu...

We are sitting on our screen porch at the campground listening to squirrels scampering and kids playing and golf carts whispering by...

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...

ReadWritePoem prompts us to listen to the first thing someone says to us and write a poem around it.  This is what my husband said to me thi...