I remember being asked but don’t remember what happened after that Did I look? Did I show? For the bribe of a popsicle? I remember where we stood between the Coast Guard Station and his family’s summer rental on the back path to home I remember the sting of gravel on my bare feet and […]
Shy moon blushes Late bloomer shine From behind leafy branches It gets braver as it climbs ___________Colleen Redman / Poets United
Mara wants to take our poetry routine on the road. Because we know each other so well and have been bouncing off each other’s work for 30 years, our featured reading at the Little River Poetry Festival came off a bit as a comedy act. Back in the day (2005 – 2012) when we […]
I used to stick my head out the backseat car window not caring that it messed my hair I still lean up and talk to the people up front and lay down and rest when nothing is happening When I stare at a stranger passing by on a highway they stare back like I called […]
Today’s poetry was paper trashUnrequited loves that broke my heartTeased out lines written in circlesBig ideas that fell flat So I vowed to quitbut miss it alreadyI put it in writing but scribbled that too Now I’m looking for loopholesto fix what I quit to write today’s honest wordnot tomorrow’s regret __________Colleen Redman / Poets United/ […]
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh” – Leonard Cohen The scars around my ankles from being burned when I was a baby are almost invisible now Like the wound of being separated from mother and home for a four-week hospital stay We called dragonflies “sewing needles” when we […]
It’s a list of words I like A finger pointing mouthful of spelling Vanity license plate of noisy graffiti It’s not a real poem It’s a game show in morse code buy a vowel to solve the puzzle This is the fall of the oral laid out on pavement on billboards and keyboards […]
We are like two sides of the same coin Heads or tails We both win ___________Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
The poem I write is not like the jacket I wear It’s more the shoulders it rests on the arms it covers the belly it warms And the poem I write is not like the soup I make It’s the wrist that stirs the spoon the hand that guides the knife to […]
The sky is always bluer on the side of new adventure.
The sun plunges low Jets trail like tribal arrows Vultures circle like warriors and startled doves cry The moon meets the horizon like a sacred hoop rising Like a white buffalo omen Dreamcatcher of hope ________Colleen Redman / Poets United/ Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
A modest moonunder the thumb of nightis hemmed from viewlike a half slip of light __________Colleen Redman / Poets United
A dismembered head stricken with insomnia has to be carried by a weakened body An unfocused gaze sees two of everything Whose voice is in my mouth? What poison aches in me? Stripped of function I don’t know anything but this underlying truth and the cost of keeping it together Every thought […]
Whether its 4 agreements or 10 commandments I know the difference between right and wrong Whether it’s 4 and 20 blackbirds or 3 blind mice 12 steps or 3 strikes I don’t borrow words or follow crowds I don’t need to be told Whether it’s the yellow brick road or the long and winding one […]
Like a baseball player with warm-up tics I’ve been through all my favorite habits waiting for the pulse of a poem in play for the grip and crack of contact I’ve been in the dugout too long not even hoping for a home-run Now I’d settle for a foul with potential I’d welcome a walk to […]
The moon is like a celebrity that’s fashionably late arriving on the red-carpet of the sun’s fiery blaze ________Colleen Redman / Our World Tuesda / dVerse Poets Pub
Lime-green shamrock umbrellas Ireland loves me She loves me not She loves me I press them in journals like a monk preserving archives or twirl them like kilts on giggling girls In the name of the Mother the Sun and the Holy Wells Ireland is a green kite let go by the fairies Landed in […]
A silver horn plays a top note A pied piper’s call for the stars to come out _________Colleen Redman / Poets United
