Welcome to My Poetry Blog!

Thanks for checking out my new blog. I'm excited to have "my own place" to write and share with friends, family and other poets. Scroll down the page and click on the links on the right for poems and news.

I also hope it will become a place where fellow writers and artists gather to read and share poetry. Fellow poets & artists, let me know if you have a blog, and perhaps we can trade links. And please do leave comments if you like.

I'd love it if you'd become a "follower" -- although I admit, being new to this, I'm not really sure what that means.  In the spirit of this gathering space, let me offer a poem:


COMMUNION

Let us come together.

From our different places

let us gather,

carrying our songs and stories

as offerings to each other.

Let open up ourselves and

create a place of welcome.

"Communion" appears in my origami poetry book, Communion, produced by the Origami Poems Project. http://www.origamipoems.com/

Copyright Diane Dolphin, 2010. All rights reserved.

Poem: If Dogs Had Easter

IF DOGS HAD EASTER
Diane Dolphin 

If dogs had Easter

it would be in March

as the snow gives way

revealing lime green balls

yellow noses and purple rumps

that speckle the lawn

like bright colored eggs

and the dogs root and dig

resurrecting old friends

like crocuses blooming

along the old fence.

"If Dogs Had Easter" appears in my chapbook, No Longer Always, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. It also appears in my origami poetry book, Communion, coming soon from the Origami Poems Project.

Copyright Diane Dolphin, 2010. All rights reserved.

Poem: Communion

COMMUNION
Diane Dolphin 

Let us come together.

From our different places

let us gather,

carrying our songs and stories

as offerings to each other.

Let open up ourselves and

create a place of welcome.

"Communion" appears in my origami poetry book, Communion, coming soon from the Origami Poems Project. http://www.origamipoems.com/

Copyright 2010 Diane Dolphin. All rights reserved.

Poem: For the Benevolent Matriarch

For the Benevolent Matriarch
Diane Dolphin

Tiny, ancient woman, look upon our faces,

the sea of your creation. Your blood,

the blood of mirth and kindness,

courses through our veins. Your song,

Happy Trails, echoes in the halls of our hearts.

Knitter of words, mender of hearts,

eternal fount of love and gossip.

Shucker of corn, gutter of fish,

keeper of all our secrets.

Carry them with you now,

tucked in your giant pocketbook.

We will hand down your stories,

grown larger with each telling.

Go now, join your husband.

Here comes the old station wagon:

Our lady, your chariot awaits.

"For the Benevolent Matriarch" appears in my origami poetry book, Communion, available soon through the Origami Poems Project.  http://www.origamipoems.com/ 

Copyright 2010 Diane Dolphin. All rights reserved. 

Poem: Innocence

INNOCENCE
Diane Dolphin 

You really little girled me,

freckled my face and bespectacled me,

shooed big people worries out of me.

With you I wore green space boots

and carried my days in a froggy face lunchbox.

I colored your mornings yellow,

sprinkled pink candy hearts in your coffee jar.

You wrestled fudge jumbles from my hand

to save until after a squash and peas dinner.

In darkness you held me,

two velvet-wrapped spoons

I listened to the heart sounds in my ears,

wondering how those sounds were made,

believing that beauty meant fireflies blinking

in dill-smelling pickle jars.

"Innocence" will appear soon in my new origami poetry book, Communion, through the Origami Poems Project. http://www.origamipoems.com/ 

Copyright 2010 Diane Dolphin. All rights reserved. 

Diane featured in Providence Journal Poetic License Column

Tom Chandler, former RI Poet Laureate, wrote a story about my writing, and included a couple of my poems, "Recipe," and "August." I'm grateful to Tom and the Projo for the opportunity. You can read the article at this link:

http://www.projo.com/books/content/artsun-July-poem_07-05-09_G6EGD9B_v7.19c5242.html

Poem: Reprieve

Reprieve

Diane Dolphin

Dogs dozing

breeze feeling kind

daisies swaying

birds at ease, bees

not all that busy.

Dragon flies hovering by

shadows hanging low.

All of us just

breathing easy, that's all's

going on.

Sun just is.

"Reprieve" appears in No Longer Always, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. It also appears in my origami poetry book, Big Thoughts, through the Origami Poems Project. http://www.origamipoems.com/ 


Copyright 2010 Diane Dolphin. All rights reserved.