Month: July 2014

  • And We Live Again

    the music tangles in the wind of muted sound and we live again When our son became seriously ill and I could not find holiday cards that spoke to what my heart carried,   I started to make Christmas cards.   The first card was made with construction paper  and carried a poem of mine that I…

  • How To Comment On My Blog

    Dear loyal followers,    I have had some emails from you and you are having difficulty making your comments on my blog.  Many  of you receive my posts in your smart phones.  To make comments you must go to my blog which is fromanupperfloor.com.  If you put me into your toolbar it will be easy for…

  • A Silent Thank You

                                                                                                                     Hey there, mister. . . .are you ready?   Almost,  he says and in a few minutes he appeared. Where are we going,  he asked and I said to do some errands .   We can walk and because it is early,  it is still cool.   We did not hurry along,  just sauntered.   As we came…

  • Listen, Ophelia

    The English Professor took umbrage with me and my manuscript.   He said he had never seen anyone do this before!  It was unheard of! He called me an anarchist.   (I had to look up the word because I was not quite sure what was meant.  One who overthrows is an anarchist.)   He had read all…

  • Invite The Heavens

    It is a sacred alliance,   this familial connection.   So much depends on it.   What happens within four walls is more important than what happens on the outside.  What is happening in the world at large was predicted when my generation went out the front door to kindergarten.  Character is formed within the first five years…

  • Kiss The Moon Winner!

    Kim J is the winner of a copy of Kiss The Moon,  The Woman Speaks and Gives Grace.    It has been an interesting time for me and I am delighted for Kim to have this book.   I hope it will become a favorite for her and she will indeed find our gender and perhaps my…

  • Kiss The Moon —a favorite poem

     Abundance In my abundance I come to you. In my abundance, I love you. This love shackles you not nor binds you tightly in chains. It gives you freedom to soar where your spirit wills and in the same abundance finds you winging back to me. Run quickly from a love which possesses by need.…

  • Kiss The Moon Poetry Book Drawing

    On Thursday,  July 17, 2014  I will have a blind drawing for my book of poetry called Kiss The Moon,  The Woman Speaks And Gives Grace.   These poems were written during the infancy of the woman’s movement in search of equality.   What has evolved is a generation of young women who would not let anyone…

  • Become The Friend

    When the burlap arrived I began to  learn how to work with the fabric.   My first attempts were successful because they were the tried and true ones that I used with ordinary fabric.   This wall quilt was the first attempt to write directly on the burlap.   It became a quilt that built itself as I…

  • The Road Hardly Ever Chosen

    A Teacher Spoke. . . . you spend time patching up the grill work only to find that the holes are supposed to be there for that is the way it was designed.   That is where it is you are.   That is where we have come and there is no turning back but straight on …