I Don’t Write Love Poems
This particular poem is about my grandmother, and what love meant to her. It comes from my book, Con-Versing with God.
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PoetryI have been a poet since I could read. My poetry therapy workbooks have revolutionized the field of poetry therapy, but I began as a poet, not a therapist. My first love is word… In 2006, Blooming Twig Books released the reprint of the legendary poetry therapy workbook In-Versing Your Life, which can be found here.
My newest poetry collection, Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns, is now available from Blooming Twig Books! You can order a copy now at Amazon.com.
In my new book of poetry, I return to the ghosts of the sand hills, and to the haunts of politics and family tragedy.
From “Please Use These Words for Children,” an activist poem about my simple letter to the government along with my family’s taxes saying, “Please use this for children, and not for war and guns…” to a poem about a conversation between a mid-western mother and her daughter about long kept secrets over an empty ice cream bucket filled with lily-of-the-valley slips, to “The Poem That Needs to Be Written” about the red-haired child growing up to be gay, this book confronts issues seldom tackled in mainstream poetry.
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Ballad of the Rag Man
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