Tag: poetry
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Dear Creative Use of Haiku, #12. 2025
Dear Creative, My cousin is a poet, and I didn’t even know it. During a recent trip to Atlanta, I sat still, captivated as I absorbed the elegant rhyming verses composed for his wife, who I affectionately refer to as my bonus cousin. (She’s a courageous stroke survivor whose recovery we rejoice in.) My cousin’s…
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Where Will Love Take You? #10. 2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Love Week! This week, many of us will celebrate the virtues of love with heart-shaped candies, bouquets of roses, greeting cards, and candlelight dinners. While this is a tradition, I trust that many of us celebrate love all year, thinking of wonderful ways to express our affection for those we care about…
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What We Learn From the Great Maya Angelou, #9.2025
Dear Creative, My mind races with thoughts of current events, women’s rights in sports, and, yes, Black History Month. I hope you are well. My prayer is that this letter is received with the good kind of angst that fills my heart right now—the sort that sings, “We are not laboring in vain.” Prayers are…
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SHORT AND SWEET #17: T.S. ELIOT, CATS, PEOPLE
“For you know only a heap of broken images.” T.S. ELIOT Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on this day in 1888. Thomas Stearns Eliot died at age 76 in London, England. He came from a prominent family. His grandfather founded Washington University in St. Louis. The reason I add this fact is that I was…