Loose Leaf Notes

It starts with a C followed by an O U turns to D and ends up a zero __________Colleen Redman /Poets United

It dangles like a hangnail that hurts to write Brushes like a mystery up against me Like a thread through a needle stopped by a knot It pulls me like a craving for what I can’t live without ________Colleen Redman / Poets United

I left the dream to finish the poem Now the dream has dissolved like a memory that was stolen like a lesson that wasn’t learned like a life returned to dust ________Colleen Redman / Poets United

Sorrow is  a beautiful country where you meet your destiny or the love of your life But you won’t know its hidden fullness if you don’t speak its underlying language or trust in the lay of its land Because its depth is as far as its width and its jewel is disguised by darkness You […]

Last ember of night unshaken by storm A warm and enduring kindle for dawn ________Colleen Redman / Poet United

I keep having to count and recount How many are we now? The math equals orphans like laundry on a line with no clothespins to hold us Now I am the oldest but 3rd in the line and separated by one from the other five Divided by death times who we miss we remain unsolvable […]

The sky is the theater of the beach Every day is a new world that hasn’t been seen Every royal glimmer of sun that shimmers the shore is a boundless wealth won by everyone While clouds shift like scenes from an unfolding story time fills and empties wave after wave washing away every yesterday __________Colleen […]

Sun dried and eager heralds of spring A standing ovation of light overflowing _______Colleen Redman  / Shadow Shot Sunday

Like a purple flock of drenched finches early blooming crocus hold tight to secrets _____Part 2 HERE /_____________Colleen Redman / Poets United

You can’t know when you’re young that some choices are made only once That lived moments recalled can’t live up to their originals They’re like copies of copies of copies with details that blur over time With pages that slip out of order So we stick to the stories we’ve memorized Fine print is an […]

I saw our mother’s face on another woman everything but the eyes as if she was recycled for spare parts as if she had a sister we didn’t know I saw you in a dream living fine without me as if your death was a one-sided loss as if the small place where we drifted […]

Today I’m moving words that have become part of the furniture I’m cutting the clutter and repairing the wear I’m taking junk to the dump and rearranging the mood I’m putting the elephant in the middle of the room _________Colleen Redman / Poets United

My dream has little value unless I write it down like a baby isn’t named until it’s born Is it the voice of God-within that gives me clues in dreams? That grades my day by scores at night? That lives a double life? __________Colleen Redman / Poets United

Clouds spill up defying gravity They melt away like chances not taken But some escape and sail like boats beyond the view of my own belief __________Colleen Redman / Poets United

Sometimes it’s like writing in school detention THE GREAT WAY HAS NO IMPEDEMENT THE GREAT WAY HAS NO IMPEDMENT 100 times over on the blackboard of my mind I’ll be restlessly counting and watching the clock IT DOES NOT PICK AND CHOOSE IT DOES NOT PICK AND CHOOSE waiting to escape the confinement my desk […]

Slicing onions like origami doves They fly like souls into the afterlife _______Colleen Redman /  Poets United  

Everyone’s famous when the sun’s bulb flashes when it keeps them in the spotlight and follows them through their day Everyone’s rich when the sun cashes in when its pot of gold overflows and its lucky star pays dividends _______Colleen Redman / Poets United

Glass ball ornament in a string of lights sky Punch bowl moon for auld lang syne ______________Colleen Redman / Poets United