Rachee

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…

The American Society of Poets have a great FAQ about April as National Poetry Month. Click here for information about the month. Anyhoodle, off to the poems! When The Bee was about 3, she became obsessed with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats after watching a PBS special called “Broadway’s Lost Treasures” (I think) which aired during the weekly, quarterly begging fundraising….