wrote 2 days ago: I have a trick knee. Bet you didn’t know that. Yep. Once or twice a year, it does this marv … more →
wrote 3 days ago: Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked ha … more →
wrote 4 days ago: Photo Credit: Daddy Blogger I’ve written poems for my mother, my sister, my grandfather, friends, my … more →
wrote 5 days ago: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Photo Credit: Daddy Blogger I’ve written poems for my mother, my sister, my grandfather, friends, my … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: This poem gets anthologized a lot, but it’s a favorite of mine and I think it needs to occupy … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: A couple of years ago, I took a fiction writing class through the UC Davis Extension program. It wa … more →
wrote 1 month ago: My father died last two Tuesdays ago. As odd as it sounds from someone who keeps a poetry blog, I do … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Walt Whitman’s use of free verse became appreciated by composers seeking a more fluid approach … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks fol … more →
wrote 2 months ago: (Fisk Campus) Evenings I hear the workmen fire into the stiff magnolia leaves, routing the starlings … more →
wrote 3 months ago: This slideshow requires JavaScript. SNOW Smooths and burdens, endangers, hardens. Erases, revises Ex … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked ha … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Those Winter Sundays – Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Here is the poem that called and claimed me senior year. I have pulled it from Collected Poems, by R … more →
wrote 4 months ago: When I was in my fall semester of my junior year, my mind began to scramble and race over the many w … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Woke up to some snow covering the grass and the cars. I can objectionably affirm that yes, snow is p … more →
wrote 4 months ago: FREDERICK DOUGLASS By Robert Hayden When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beauti … more →
wrote 4 months ago: photo by Josh Scholten “Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueb … more →