Category: Writing

I Wandered Lonely and Now Remember Daffodils

I Wandered Lonely and Now Remember Daffodils

An example from another poet helped me break through writer’s block and honor my grandmother’s passing 2 years ago today.

Speed and Quality Don’t Always Go Together

Speed and Quality Don’t Always Go Together

A blogging mistake prompts a mea culpa and lessons learned confession.

3 Haiku: Yesterday and Tomorrow – and What About Today?

3 Haiku: Yesterday and Tomorrow – and What About Today?

Talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in;
How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care;
How long it’s been since yesterday and what about tomorrow?
What about our dreams and all the memories we share?

Poem for Loved Ones Who Are Hurting

Poem for Loved Ones Who Are Hurting

A poem for people you love who are in pain.

Comforting Words on Labor Day for All That Labor and are Heavy-laden

Comforting Words on Labor Day for All That Labor and are Heavy-laden

Today, on Labor Day, I’m thinking of the many people I know who are laboring or heavy-laden, and I pray for them to find respite, peace, healing, comfort and support.

goodbye, my brown-eyed girl

goodbye, my brown-eyed girl

A remembrance poem for a gentle dog who licked my hand and leapt into my heart.

What the Car Saw: London Taxi Version (People on Phones)

What the Car Saw: London Taxi Version (People on Phones)

Observations from a taxi window in London. Hop in with me and share the journey of a sad discovery.

Sunshine Blogger Nominations and Q&A

Sunshine Blogger Nominations and Q&A

The Glover Gardens response to the nomination from the A. JoAnn Blog for a Sunshine Blogger Award. I like that name: sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

Water, Wind and Land: Metaphors for a Geophysicist (remembrance for Grandpa on his 98th birthday)

Water, Wind and Land: Metaphors for a Geophysicist (remembrance for Grandpa on his 98th birthday)

Reconstructing Grandpa in the museum of my heart – a poem in memory of an amazing man, Thomas Carlyle Holt.

12 Radical Reasons to Write Poetry

12 Radical Reasons to Write Poetry

The list referenced here from the All Nine blog by Kelly Belmonte is a wonderful and persuasive set of arguments in favor of writing poetry.

Haiku: Mindfulness on the Beach

Haiku: Mindfulness on the Beach

Image poetry: girl on the beach in repose knows, she simply knows Copyright 2017, Glover Gardens Cookbook

Travel Day Thoughts

Travel Day Thoughts

Haiku for air travel.

Haiku Mind: Book Review in Haiku

Haiku Mind: Book Review in Haiku

My review of Haiku Mind: what i thought i knew how to view and feel and say i knew not at all If you are into haiku, this book is for you. It is a book of haiku while at the same time being a […]

The Thankful Foreigner: An Award-Winning Essay from a Millennial

The Thankful Foreigner: An Award-Winning Essay from a Millennial

A young American writes an award-winning essay after being thanked by a Frenchman from Normandy for D-Day. The essay is relevant today.

Determination

Determination

A tiny tree in a Colorado forest inspires a haiku.

Grace by the Sea – Winelight | encouraging others through tough times

Happy to repost this article:  Encouraging others through tough times. Source: Grace by the Sea – Winelight | encouraging others through tough times

The Chili Bee and Round Top, Texas – A Little Tale of Community, Chili and Small-Town Magic

The Chili Bee and Round Top, Texas – A Little Tale of Community, Chili and Small-Town Magic

A tale of a chili cook-off fundraiser in a tiny Texas town, two friends, five gallons of spilled chili, dozens of kind people and a chance meeting with the governor.

Haiku:  Beckoning Winter Sky

Haiku: Beckoning Winter Sky

I am in love with our little cabin in central Colorado.  “Little House in the Rockies” inspires me to create recipes, snap photos, write essays, poems and haiku, birdwatch…in general, to revel in nature and absorb its beauty and regenerative spirit. Here’s one from a […]

Cat Haiku, and Pictures, Too

Cat Haiku, and Pictures, Too

Cat haiku and pictures, because the world doesn’t have enough. So I give you: Godfrey in repose.

Haiku for Autumn in Southeast Texas: October’s Party

Haiku for Autumn in Southeast Texas: October’s Party

Haiku about autumn in Southeast Texas – the flowers are still blooming although the leaves are falling.


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