Go on.

Dragging her feet making her way towards whatever she has to face that day. Eyes glazed and gray hair tangled as if soaked and woven everything is slow. Maybe she cares but now that she’s over the first hindrance she doesn’t listen. Hands in her pockets as if digging for lost treasures in there not [...]

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Wish I Could Get Lost

Dawn breaks, white mist hides the familiar shapes of houses, trees, mountains. Kid awakes, the air is damp and chilly as I drop’em off to daycare for a while. I crawl back into bed and convince myself I have nothing better to do but be comfortably hidden under sheets and covers. For a couple of [...]

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Shut up Songbird

I’ve stayed for too long my voice is turning harsh and unforgiving. My words don’t sound like songs anymore. I should know better by now, after all this time, but I couldn’t let go when the melody caught me. I’ve stayed for too long I can’t believe my head isn’t empty yet. The trouble with [...]

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5 Easy Steps to Writing Rhyme-Free Poetry

Have you ever felt like writing a poem but been discouraged by the thought of proper form and rhyme and all those things that make up a good, solid work of poetry? Or have you been discouraged by the (silly) claims that if it doesn‘t have rhyme it‘s not a poem?   . . Let me help [...]

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Some People

Some people hide amongst the small and crooked branches in the crown of the tree.

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Top 5 Things for (extremely) Shy Writers to Think About When Introducing Themselves and Their Work to Strangers.

I´ve always found it easy to talk and introduce myself to strangers, be it a single person or a room full of people. I realise that´s not the case for everybody and, as bravely posted on Writer´s Round-About, some people find it extremely hard if not terrifying. This can be a real problem for us [...]

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(a Poem a Day) -Honeydrops-

(Sorry about missing Poems-a-Day, to you who read them… And yes, yes, it´s a mommy-post…)

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Vonnegut´s 8 Rules for Writing a Short Story

I stumbled across a blog where a girl (so sorry about that, Alex ) was talking about these eight rules of writing fiction, and I shamelessly googled the rules for my own thoughts. They were written by a Kurt Vonnegut who, according to wikipedia, wrote them in self-assessment purposes. He added that great writers tend to break [...]

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