One of my plans for this year is to read more poetry, as poetry is something nice to read which can also be enjoyed in small doses. And there is loads published online. So I figured I might as well post a few as I find them, to share the fun

Lara Gose lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with her fiancé, author Ed Gentry. A stint in graduate school, pursuing a doctoral degree in comparative literature, encouraged her to use her knowledge of literature, culture, and literary theory to develop her own creative writing. She writes short fiction, usually in the sci-fi, fantasy, or mystery genres, and when writing poetry she enjoys playing with forms like the pantoum, terzanelle, or sestina.

Visiting Grandma Lara Gose

Her hair is air-spun candy, white;
Cat’s-eye glasses curl across her wrinkled face.
Her bent body bends over a flowered puzzle;
Nervous, crooked fingers try this piece here,
But it doesn’t fit, so they try again somewhere else.
She says, “No, I guess it don’t quite go there.

“It looks like it just might go, but it don’t fit there.
See, there’s those little specks of white.
I reckon I’ll just have to try it some place else.”
I wonder if a raisin has more wrinkles than Grandma’s face.
“You pull up a chair, help me. Sit right here.
Let’s sit and talk, fix this thing up purty, this puzzle.”

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read the full poem: http://www.strongverse.org/poems/gose_lara.html

Lara’s Blog http://lifl.blogspot.com/