I love poets, as much out of jealousy but also for the talent and the parallel universe they must live in. I would like to live there. Cindi Reiss is a member of one of my writing groups-The Phoenix Writers Club. She is a poet. She shared with me the following pantoum, which is a form of poetry. She offers the following description of this form. “The pantoum originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets that were recited or Read More …

    HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss-shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it–ah, but stay I ‘ll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits,– Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five, Georgius Secundus was then alive,– Snuffy old drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, Read More …