by Linda Buckley | Jun 1, 2020 | News & Updates, Pandemic Poems, Poetry
The highlight of each Covid-19 day after I zoom around doing yoga (with the video off so I can collapse into child’s pose if it’s too strenuous) is going for a walk. At last the once white but now gray snow and ice have yielded unwittingly to the green of...
by Linda Buckley | Apr 29, 2020 | News & Updates, Pandemic Poems, Poetry
It was really just a trip to buy flowers and maybe pick up a newspaper. First the bright orange Cheetos package caught my eye. But my inner food filter yelled, NO!!! So I wandered past. > I was looking for coffee when I stumbled into the cookie aisle. Just a small...
by Linda Buckley | Apr 24, 2020 | News & Updates, Pandemic Poems, Poetry
Yesterday I received this photo from my son. He managed to capture a bear with very little brain. in a pensive pose, holding lovingly, a puppy gazing into an unknown future. Pokey the puppy lives in Arizona with my grandsons. According to my son, puppy is very happy...
by Linda Buckley | Apr 1, 2020 | News & Updates, Poetry
Sound of bubbles the perfect sphere Then at the center eleven whales appear Gulping krill wide mouthed they lunge Skim the surface submerge and plunge We hold our breath as they exhale A bold burst of sound then a tail An echo lingers in the still and waiting day...
by Linda Buckley | Apr 27, 2019 | Poetry
My mind was cluttered with catastrophe. Churning and turning, Composing and decomposing. Phrases, paragraphs, essays, Dissertations. Words, words, words. Then suddenly, A robin sang her way into The cerebral clamor. Our eyes met. The chatter stopped. She balanced on a...