In poetry, can I count a song as a poem?Sure I will! My blog, my rules.Anyhoodledoodle (like that?) I am adding Sinead O’Connor to my favorites. Back in the merry ol’ land of 1990 when MTV played videos, The Box was a hit, and I had a cassette player, I used to love me some Sinead. Yes, she was bald….
I am a bit stuck. I have been searching through the poems that I like and have noticed a strikingly similar trend: they are mostly poems directed at children. Not necessarily a bad thing but not really what I aiming for in my search for poetry enlightenment but, meh.So I hit Google and found Poetry 180. It’s poetry for high…
I don’t know why I wait so long to file my income taxes. I just don’t like doing them. When I was married, the ex did the taxes and I was content to sit back and be that woman who doesn’t want to get all addled with figures and such (Perhaps this is why I am not married anymore? Not…
Oh yeah. I finally stopped talking about it and did it.I stopped thinking about it and made it so.I took a took a deep breath, stopped worrying about what I might miss and what I might not be able to do and I have registered for school. Yay me! When I graduated high school way back when (actual date redacted;…
Last Spring I was introduced to Hilaire Belloc through a book of poems requested by a patron. After feeling equally shocked and titillated by his poems, I showed the following to The Bee who was just as horrified and enchanted with the tale of a little girl whose lies causes her death.And to think, children were told these tales before…