My poem, "Ancient Song", is a featured selection for this quarter at PoetryDances.com; http://poetrydances.com/poemsnov09jan10.htm   I actually posted it in September, and you saw it first!© 2009; http://dancingwithpens.blogspot.com by Lisa G....

In the city, you forget about the stars seeing only streetlight’s incandescence instead of the illumination of nature. The eye is blinded by imitation, coronas blazing, fading out the sky, covering night’s soft beauty, turning it into false...

Spent Friday and Saturday at the Red Dirt Book Festival in Shawnee, OK.  It is a biennial event put together by the library system that brings authors, poets, scholars together with book lovers and aspiring writers. I really enjoyed it; learned a few...

You might notice several post popping up with old dates.  That's because I was away from my home computer and attempted to post via E-mail.  Operative word - attempted.  I obviously didn't have it set up the way I thought, so the posts were held. ...

A house is just four walls, a roof, some windows and doors erected to shelter inhabitants. Just masonry and mortar, wood, - rude materials these. But, if these four walls could speak, what saga would they tell? They would spin a tale of the...