New Book

Here it is!  Finally out on Kindle for the awesome price of $5.00,  here is my new collection of Poems and Short Stories, Spies, Secretly  Enjoy!  BTW if you have Amazon Prime you can check it out from the Lending Library.  Do it! 

Poetry Month: The Playground

Part of my current job involves "playground duty" during which time I play, chat, and mitigate amongst about three-to-four-hundred elementary school kids.  TODAY, however, was different.

Today was Poem in your Pocket day, and I spent all 20 minutes of my recess listening to kids read me poetry.  All except the two minutes I had to break up a fight and the thirty seconds it took me to yell at some kids who were playing in a mud puddle. 

The actually lined up to read their poems to me.  It was a rare and gratifying experience as a poet.

Poetry Month: Your Pocket

Next thursday is Poem in your Pocket Day.  Here's the idea:  find (or write) a poem, keep it in your pocket all day. When you have a chance, read it to someone.  Our school is making a contest out of it and I am very excited.  Here is a website that talks about it, but really I just explained it all, it's very simple.  What poem will you chose?  If you need ideas I have some for you. 

Poetry Month: Poems for Sale

I took a long weekend, but I'm back to finish out Blogging Poetry month.


I have always wanted to do this.  I think if I try now, I might feel like I'm ripping this guy off, but I really have always wanted to do it.  Like maybe at a booth in an arts festival. 

Poetry Month: An Original

This is a poem I wrote for an open mic night shortly after my daughter was born, and it will be appearing in my forthcoming ebook. (stay tuned for more info on that, BTW)  someone out there somewhere has video of me reading it, but I don't know who.  I'll post it if I find it. 

Baby Girl
We have a lot in common
my baby girl and me
we are both into a few of the same things
like long walks,
and my wife to name a few.
We both like to be held
we prefer company to solitude
and we both like to eat every 2 hours or so.
neither one of us likes wet pants
though there are times
neither of us can avoid it.
we share several favorite pass-times,
we aspire to be great
and to take great naps.
we like latin music
because we’re trying to improve our Spanish skills
we both like a little milk in the evening
and early in the morning when
her mom wakes us up
we both stretch out our arms
and vote for snoozing
and now (and this is the best part)
we’re a majority

Poetry Month: More from Twitter

I like twitter.  That's not a surprise to anyone who knows me.  Today I came across this, a list of poetry resources on twitter.  I'm not on the list, but I do follow a lot of them already.  enjoy!

Poetry Month: Memorizing Poems

A lot of people had to memorize poetry in school at some point.  Most people hated it.  I hated it.  I had to memorize a poem 3 different times, but guess what? I was lazy and I used the same one.  I think I regret it now, because I'm terrible at memorizing stuff, AND I found out that I actually like poetry.  Anyway, here's the poem I memorized.  I can still say it from memory.  AND it's still one of my favorites.