STARDREAMING With Sherry Blue Sky

  "Hope is the thing with feathers,*" the poet said, and, when she sits listening to the sweet, warbled trills of a song sparrow, ...

" A poem should always have birds in it," the poet said. And " A person wants to stand in a happy place in a poem." Here...

  We walk the fine edge, between this world and the next, trying to heal our pain, recover from our illnesses, adjusting to the decline of t...

  Did you know that turtles talk to each other? I didn't know it either, till a scientist on the radio played recordings of their guttur...

What didn't make the news: half a dozen poets,  sitting under the trees, sharing cake,  cackles and poems; a man quietly planting trees ...

  This is what the living do: we wake up each morning to the day, our beds a time capsule, carrying us through years of dreams and memories....

  I planted green bulbs that turned purple, magically, week by week. They taught me we often find much more than we seek. I planted children...