Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
18 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in Giving a Poetry Reading, Poetry Tags: a wish for grandeur, bard, bitch, boisterous, bristling, debris, Giving a Poetry Reading, itching, Mary Magdaline, relatives, Rhyming, riotous, spells, swishing, whisk broom, witch
Mary Magdaline
Giving a Poetry Reading
Some say I’m a witch
casting alchemy spells
or a bitch
with rich relatives
or whisk broom
sweeping up debris
but the truth is
I am a wish for grandeur
a swishing, itching, bristling poet
a rhyming, riotous boisterous bard!
11 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Eleven Tags: 9/11, Armistice, Eleven, eleventh day, eleventh hour, eleventh month, famous, First World War, infants, men stay the course, relatives
Eleven
9/11 is famous;
so is:
“the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.”
when the Armistice of the First World War was signed.
It isn’t just men that stay the course, but infants, and all their relatives!
28 Jun 2013 1 Comment
in Family Tags: absolute, comparative, interdependence, motion, relationships, relative, relatives, relativity, relevant, roll
relative-
tell-a-tive
related through the sieve.
kith and kin
close and in
family clan.
ancestors
through the doors
blood and claws.
clones for us
what’s the fuss?
grands and new and us.
01 May 2013 3 Comments
in Family Tags: Autobiography, babies, Budgets, Calligraphy, divorce, Dominicans, German ghetto, grand children, Jeanne form Queens, mountains, North Shore LI, published, relatives, Teaching Art in NYC, the Midwest, Trappists
Table of Contents
Farms in Queens
German Ghetto
St. Thomas the Apostle Parish
Dominican Nuns
The Band
Girl Scouts
The Elevated Train
Brooklyn Catholic High Schools
Convent Life in the Sixties
Coming Out
Meeting the Trappist Priest
Teaching Art in the New York City HS
Having 3 babies in 4 years
Raising Children on the North Shore of Long Island
Equality in a Marriage
Relatives
Divorce
The Midwest
Art & Teaching
Calligraphy
Non-Retirement
Budgets
City girl goes to the Mountains
Home Owners Association
Elder Years
Being Published
Health Maintenance
Grand Children
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 