Vallejo Poet Laureate 2017-2019
I wrote this poem inspired by an abstract painting for the Ode to Labor event at Vallejo’s Georgia Galleria 419 Georgia St., Suite 10, taking place during Art Walk on September 13th, 2019 at 7 PM. Thank you to Tom Stanton for agreeing to read it. The poems and paintings for a Labor Day theme […]
This poem won 1st Place in Explore California State Parks at the Alameda County Fair 2019. Forest Whisperings The forest,she is calling me. It’s been too long since I’ve wandered her beautiful winding pathways, climbed her mountains just for a gaze of beauty so intense no poem nor photo does justice, admired the way the […]
Thank you to the 2019 Marin County Fair for awarding a third place ribbon in Any Other Haiku to “Laugh With Me” which appears in my 2018 book The Cafe of Dreams. Laugh With Me Laughing woodpecker. Uncooperative tree. I, too, must giggle. No ratings yet. Please rate this post Sample rating item
Thank you to the 2019 Marin County Fair for awarding the following haiku a 1st place blue ribbon in the Moonscapes Haiku category: Moonlight Song A moonlight chorus serenades until sunrise. Wake up. Sing a dream. No ratings yet. Please rate this post Sample rating item
Thank you to the 2019 Marin County Fair for awarding the following haiku Best in Class for Moonscapes Haiku: Bovine in Orbit Many moons ago during lunar bovine flight ate moon pies. No fork. No ratings yet. Please rate this post Sample rating item
This is one of my favorites to perform, and I have done so from memory at Poetry Out Loud in 2019, Solano County Library Foundation’s Why Poetry event in 2018, and most recently on the San Mateo County fair’s literary stage. It appears in the book Poet Loiterer. Poetic Timing Poetry never comes at a […]
