From the book, A Child's garden of Verses. An illustration of a young girl on a cozy window reading nook, books and floral cushions beside her, sunlight streaming in as she reads.

Poetry

I love memorizing poems. I love saying them out loud. The deliciousness of the carefully chosen words.

Sometimes I write poems. To freeze a moment, a feeling. For my pleasure.

This is a mishmash of poems I love and poems I write.

Above: From A Child’s garden of Verses. This Jessie Wilcox Smith illustration is singly responsible for my lifelong love of reading nooks. And it’s not a bad interpretation of how I saw myself. Ok, ok, fine – how I see myself.