Poems

↓ If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.          Rainer Maria Rilke

Enjoying a poetry workshop led by Tod Marshall, Washington State Poet Laureate, at the 2016 “Write on the Sound”  writers conference.

 Chapter 1                  Chapter 2                           Chapter 3                      Chapter 4                       Chapter 5

Wondering                      A Fortunate Man                  Two Worlds                    * A Chance Encounter      Ways to Eat a Peach

Older Than Ireland      Backyard Bustle                   Driving Home                 The First TED Talk            The “In-Between”

Brushing Her Hair       Can You tell..                         50 hr. work week           Paying Attention               Remembering WCW

Glendolough                   Fading Winter                       Morning Memories      The Book of Hours             Dove Songs

Ora et Labora                 First Snow                               In Memorium                 Friends                                   At the Last

The Book of Hours       A Plate of Food                       Generations                   Playing Piano                       Hummingbird Prayer

To Bow My Head           On Hearing Irish Spoken   Alone With You            All is Well                              Homeless

The Playset                      Resolved                                   Saturday Morning       Attachments                          Last Rites

Island Shepherd            Sitting                                       Night Riders                   Solidarity                               Ora et Labora

One More Drink            The Crawl Space                    Night Crawlers             Stories I Told                        In the Shadow of the Cathedral

                                                                                                  Lunch                               Hidden Things                      Fishing Alone

                                                                                                  Three Robbins              Waiting for the Bus

                                                                                                 Things are Fine              Star Gazing

                                                                                                Skating                               Orcas Island 2017

                                                                                                Dawn

                                                                                                Faeries

                                                                                                Playing Safe

 * Selected for inclusion in the WA 129+ collection by WA Poet laureate and Gonzaga University/ Chapbook #3 WA 129+ poetry