tears – A Wandering Minstrel

Soaked Through

It has been raining off and on where I live. We’ve had a couple lightning storms, which were exciting, but mostly it’s been wet. With rain on the brain, I thought I’d post a poem I wrote during another rainy season entitled, “Soaked Through.” This poem was part of my third collection, Shadow and Memory.ContinueContinue reading “Soaked Through”

Shapely Poems

Shape poems or visual poems arrange text to form pictures. With some shape poems, the picture formed by words is more important than what the words say. Others use the shape to emphasize the verbal content. One of the first shape poems I read is also one of the best known. “Easter Wings,” by GeorgeContinueContinue reading “Shapely Poems”