Category Archives: Poetry

Painting pictures with words.

Please Don’t Eat the Ribbons!

Posted on December 15, 2020 by mitchteemley

Am I the only one whose little cat thinks each bit of Christmas ribbon is a strand of pasta? Then, discovering it’s actually nasty and terribly vile, hurls it up in tidy little piles of cheery, multicolored Christmas bile? With … Continue reading →

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Life Is a Sandwich

Posted on November 14, 2020 by mitchteemley

It was soft below us and easy to chew Twill be soft above us when we get through But right now we’re trapped in the middle, and wham! We find ourselves suddenly stuck in the jam Still, the art of … Continue reading →

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A Mother’s Plea

Posted on October 21, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is an African writer whose blog site is entitled Copious Morsels of Everything, but whose name I don’t know. Her birthplace appears to be Zimbabwe (she refers to it in at least one poem). So … Continue reading →

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October Madness

Posted on October 17, 2020 by mitchteemley

Election fever Tempers boiling People screaming Our world on the brink of survival And then there’s this… “You’re welcome.” ~God “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ~L.M. Montgomery

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Hole

Posted on September 23, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is River Dixon of The Stories In Between. I don’t know a lot about River, except that he lives in Arizona and writes short stories and poems (he’s authored seven published collections to date). The … Continue reading →

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Sometimes your eyes….

Posted on September 16, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Martina Kia of Kia’s Notions. I know virtually nothing about Kia, except that she may be Ugandan and that I like her. I like her openness and vulnerability. I like her writing, which ranges … Continue reading →

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Just Ask Creation

Posted on September 13, 2020 by mitchteemley

“Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what … Continue reading →

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granted

Posted on August 26, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Alicia (Leesha) of ProlixMe (a self-mocking reference to her tendency to use “too many words”). Leesha is a serious writer who maintains three blog sites, this one being her most personal, I believe. She … Continue reading →

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Back to School – Ready or Not

Posted on August 4, 2020 by mitchteemley

Some schools resume as early as next week in the U.S. Others will open in the coming weeks, some later still. Some, in theses uncertain times, have postponed starting, or decided to launch their fall terms online. The only thing … Continue reading →

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A Walk In The Park: An Exercise in Characterization

Posted on July 8, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Laura M. Bailey of All the Shoes I Wear. Laura is a writer whose insights come from a colorful, wildly varied life. Her writing is informed, she explains, by “all the shoes I’ve worn…from … Continue reading →

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