Category Archives: Thursday Poetry

Thursday Poetry: Mending Wall

Thursday Poetry is on Friday, again!
I really need to spend some quality time with my Google calendar again so we can re-establish our relationship.
Anyway, coming out of yesterday’s post, I thought I should share Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” with you today, in case you’ve never read it, or you haven’t read it since 8th grade [...]

Thursday Poetry: April is Poetry Month!

Yes, I know that it’s Friday, and not Thursday. This post is late because yesterday was April Fool’s Day, and you can’t believe anything you see on the internet until April 2nd.
So,
April is National Poetry Month in the U.S. !
Poetry month is always full of great poetry-related events, like speakers, [...]

Thursday Poetry: Eating Poetry

Lately I feel as though I have been reunited with poetry.   It’s been a delight to delve into it again, to swim around in words just for fun.   I know that around the corner from my desire to read lots of poetry again, there is the next logical step, which is writing poetry again.  I [...]

Thursday Poetry: Affirmation

This week I’ve needed a lot of affirming.  Even the most confident soul occasionally needs bolstering when things seem to fall apart.    Many people swear by affirmations – short, positive phrases used to center and encourage and help you focus on the changes you want to see in your life.   I think affirmations are great, [...]

New Feature: Thursday Poetry

Following up on last week’s post, where I did something scary and posted a poem, I’ve decided to start my first weekly feature on the blog. From now on, Thursdays will be for poetry. Sometimes that means I’ll post a poem, other times it means I will talk about poetry I [...]