Linda's Poems

The last couple weeks have been a darkness watching my mom weaken day by day. Tomorrow, I’ll be going to Florida to care for her fo...

Totally Optional Prompts suggested we use the following words in a poem. I managed 3 out of 4: black mice, durien sherbet, a rust storm. bl...

It Begins with Z I can’t resist a dare. It’s 1962 and I’m thirteen at 4-H camp in Allenstown, NH. Competition night. Another girl...

Berlin High School Junior Prom 1966 My Prom date was such a drip. Tall, skinny, and blond, not even cute. Tongue-tied and sweaty he...

I saw time this July morning on I 95 between Saco and Biddeford, Maine. In the middle of a bank of lavender clover, a clump of brow...

I went to ReadWritePoem and used their prompt generator to get 5 five words that I hoped I could produce some sparks with: willow, pell-mell...

In Spite of the Gloom Oak leaves as big as hands shine as if they’d been painted with polyurethane, Fog, transparent enough to see ...