Honor Flight

December 3, 2024 at 2:56 pm

I am so sorry. I hit the wrong button to preview and it published it instead. Sarah has a lot more to share with us. Stay tuned for a complete post. I was privileged to be on the free Puget Sound Honor Flight in April. Here is is synopsis and […]

Birds and Bees

December 3, 2024 at 1:57 am

 The hummingbird feeder is The social hubbub of The garden, where they love To hover with each other Round the nectar bar. There’s a flutter of feelings there, A blur of rainbows, And also a bumble of bees; Briskly buzzing zingers With their wicked little stingers With those little drops […]

Emergence

May 16, 2023 at 3:07 pm

In solitude, I rest in darknessEnclosed inside my hardened outer skin The cool earth surrounds me, protects me, gives me stabilityI feel its abundance all around meHolding me, feeding me Slowly I breathe inthe air piercing my shella breath of clarity, a moment of knowingand there is a change in my being I […]

Where I’ve Been

March 13, 2023 at 12:03 pm

I’ve had to deal with PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder for many years and once I finally overcame the worst of it, I was able to write this poem to try to explain how the MDD felt to me. Poem by Vanessa Kuljis aka Tasha LeeAnne Wolf

A Poem for Spring

March 7, 2023 at 4:04 pm

Fish Out of Place The place is the space, The place is the space, outside of time and space. Fish out of place outside of its element, photographic experiment, heavenly blue, dynamic magenta. Chilled to the bone, yet still alive in my mind’s eye, undulating, rhythmic movements. Listen for the message from […]

Sky Dragon and His Fantastical World

February 21, 2023 at 9:48 am

I am and have been mostly a nonfiction writer but the storytelling class has pushed me to write fiction. The teacher, Vincent Orduna, gave us an assignment to create a fantastical world.  I have never done anything like that but decided to stretch and do what I could. The next assignment […]

Just let me be

January 10, 2023 at 5:12 pm

Many of the art teachers that I have met through the years — in grade school, at college, and beyond — are funnily rigid.

I present a challenge to most of them.

A Survivor’s Thanksgiving

November 18, 2022 at 4:38 pm

Abusive father and brother…Sister who threw me to the curb…I went to Tent City 4 and hated it there.Then I became an independent operator homeless man.Dealing with people was too much of a headache.Generally, I prefer being alone.Now that I have lymphoma — round two — everyone wants to be […]

Where is Daisy?

October 24, 2022 at 11:49 pm

Where is Eric? So many come and go. Fast friends lost. Where is Ruanda? I asked that a few years back. Has anyone heard from Ruanda? “Oh, honey, she died.” We were supposed to go to the aquarium together. She had invited me, with a big smile on her face. […]

Autumn Longing

October 13, 2022 at 2:00 pm

I wrote a poem about fall. It was inspired by the theme of Falling Leaves and by Mary Oliver’s poem “Song for Autumn” and here it is: Autumn Longing It is time for bed,It is time for rest.Everything strives south, goes down, lets loose.We all have gone to seedPlanting our […]