Posts by Colleen Redman
Nightly News Prison Break
Soundbites break skin
What isn’t said blares loudly
I watch the burning house
with people inside it
They show engulfed bodies
then move to feel-good fluff
while the warden tries to convince me
the firefighters are the enemy...
looseleafnotes.com/2018/09/nigh...
I don’t take a pill for depression
I don’t want to miss the truth of the lesson
Most fear is distortion
Some sadness is golden
and sometimes the best singing is blue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbAd... More at looseleafnotes.com
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This is the poem I read at my dream group last week.
POEMS FROM THE DARKROOM-is a proof of concept retrospective show, held to the light, poem by poem. It’s a poetry memoir and a travelogue of aging that zooms in on the big-picture questions where depth psychology and death mythology meet... www.amazon.com/Poems-Darkro...
Every remnant pulled from memory or a dream resonates with an afterlife, as if it was a visitation from the same place where my dead loved ones are, closer than they seem. I'm writing the psyche’s story, leaving my poet’s thumbprint, love letters to whom it concerns. www.amazon.com/Objects-Clos...
34 poems that probe the questions: 'How much does the essence of one's psyche weigh? Is the soul the one carry-on that we actually take with us? In the end, what do we value and what do we leave behind?'
"Playful yet dark, frank and funny..." author Jim Minick
www.amazon.com/PACKING-SUIT...
When No One Cries Wolf
The wolf doesn't need sheep's clothing
if the door is left open
If the bad apples are poison
and the fences are broken
If the good people are sleeping
and the rest are herded
the pack is emboldened
and the vulnerable forsaken...