Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows – Left Panel by Tanielle Childers Suckered Shop me as a list,check the boxes off,pray untwine my twist. Contour me with heat,sculpted to your fancy,bind me, sugar sweet,lollipopped, entrancing. Lick me as your prize,beyond the chewy center,until there’s nothing leftexcept an empty wrapper. Returning from a month-long poetry hiatus, I am…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
Women Music March 2024 – Day 31 – Exene Cervenka
Exene Cervenka I don’t want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep ’em the same. I’d like to write more country songs, but other than that, I’m pretty good where I am. ~ Exene Cervenka Exene Cervenka (nee Christene Lee Cervenka) (b. 2/1/56)…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 30 – Ronnie Gilbert
Ronnie Gilbert 2006 Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life. — said at the age of 10, after hearing Paul Robeson sing for the first time Ronnie Gilbert and The Weavers in 1950 Ruth Alice “Ronnie” Gilbert (b. 9/7/1926 – d. 6/6/2015) was an American folk singer, songwriter, actress, and political…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 29 – Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images People ask me if I ever get tired of singing that song and I go, ‘Hell, no!’” she says. “Who knows why people all over the world are so attracted to a goofy little song about a camel. But they are and, to this day, I…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 28 – Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson I do a little country music. And a little bit of jazz. A lot of blues and a lot of R&B. There’s no one slot that any of it fits into. So that of course works against you. Tracy Nelson (b. 12/27/44) is an American country and blues singer. She has been involved…
#FF — Imelda’s Surprise Part 2
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson What Constable Willow hasn’t told Old Hilda is that a man is dead and that her employers are suspects. Last June, Gecko opened a dance hall at the old church. Most of the religious in this backwater remain aghast at sullying sacred ground, no matter that the congregation abandoned the…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 27 – Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor,photo by Danny North(who is a friggin’ awesome photographer) The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.’ — Regina…
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