Seguidilla began as a dance song. Here are the basic rules: 7-line poem Syllable count for each line is 7-5-7-5-5-7-5 One assonance rhyme between lines 2 and 4; another one between lines 5 and 7 Pause between lines 4 and […]
Continue reading »Category: Work the Steps
From My Prison
It is a prison: a body miserable in excess, unable to cross legs, to sit on the floor… then stand without mimicking a camel rolling to his feet. It is a prison: terminal ugliness, gross, grotesque, too lazy/tired/depressed for cleanliness, […]
Continue reading »Fibbing
A fibonacci, or a “fib” has nothing to do with truth or lies. It is a poem based on the fibonacci sequence in math: the number of syllables in each line of the poem is the sum of the previous […]
Continue reading »What Lengths?
If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it–then you are ready to take certain steps.Alcoholics Anonymous page 58 It seems a given when we arrive we’re willing to […]
Continue reading »Second Life
You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one. ~ Confucius It surely feels as though when you reach the rooms of Recovery as though you’ve failed miserably, can’t even do what everybody can…just […]
Continue reading »