by Laura Schmidt | Aug 2, 2020 | Original Poetry, The Poetry Deck
Technical Difficulties: A Poem Technical difficulties fanning the fires ofpresent and future frustrations, spawningcontroversial intricacies I can’t understandbut know I can’t stand for. Technical difficultiesin faulty wording and missed signalsand endless...
by Laura Schmidt | Aug 2, 2020 | Literature Landing, Short Fiction, Walk The Plank, Writing Advice
A Love-Hate Affair With Writing Short Stories See? I even dressed it up with bows. Hang on for this ride. I’m going to spill all about my torrid love-hate affair with writing short stories… and with the short story itself. It took me over ten years of...
by Laura Schmidt | Aug 2, 2020 | Original Poetry, The Poetry Deck
Sonnet IV — “Summer Love” Sonnet IV — “Summer Love” A restlessness inside my soul recallsthe swell of ocean waves and waxing windand rush of surf up to the jetty wallsand all the times we lay in shade and sinned. Down on the shore in golden...
by Laura Schmidt | Aug 2, 2020 | Essays and Reflections, Keeping It Current
The Middlesex Fells in winter… Late 2019 I’ve recently begun going through my old posts to revamp, revive, and re-release them, and this was one that struck my fancy. Maybe because it seemed to come from a simpler time, back when there wasn’t any...
by Laura Schmidt | Aug 1, 2020 | Original Poetry, The Poetry Deck
Food for Snakes: A Poem Tread lightly, or you might becomefood for snakes. In this world,in this dark place, there are too many snakesand too little real estate. Watch outfor the loan sharkswho swim just off shore. In this jungle gym full of circus clownsand dancing...
by Laura Schmidt | Aug 1, 2020 | The Poetry Deck
The Second Voyage of the Mind Poetry Day: Metamorphosis It feels like just yesterday I announced the first Voyage of the Mind Poetry Day. Then it was upon us! And before I knew it, I was declaring the winners! You should, by the way, check out that post I linked...
by Laura Schmidt | Aug 1, 2020 | Essays and Reflections, Keeping It Current, That's History
Writing Historical Fiction: Joy and Difficulty The trials and tribulations, joys and difficulties of writing historical fiction. I was flipping through Mary Renault’s novel Fire From Heaven and reminiscing about my own time writing historical fiction…...
by Laura Schmidt | Jul 31, 2020 | Poetry Exploration, The Poetry Deck
Music is Poetry: Let’s Talk About “Folklore” (and Taylor Swift) Music is poetry. Lyrics are poetry, that is. My musical tastes run the gambit, but tend to reflect this oft-forgotten fact. Lyrical music is poetry. That’s the message I’d...
by Laura Schmidt | Jul 31, 2020 | Original Poetry, The Poetry Deck
Young People: A Poem I. Through the wisp of the morning mist I heard voices.Off the vacant building walls they rang and resounded.Coming around the bend I saw a clutch of young people,gathering like young people do in all times,to laugh and shout and throw handsand...
by Laura Schmidt | Jul 31, 2020 | Articles, Keeping It Current
The Mysterious Death of Vincent van Gogh On July 27, 1890, painter Vincent van Gogh left the inn where he’d been staying with his painting equipment. He returned after dark with a bullet hole in his stomach, just below his ribs, claiming to have injured himself....
