Colleen Redman

Nightly News Prison Break Like a maestro conducting three networks at once I flip discordant channels looking for escape Soundbites break skin What isn’t said blares loudly I watch the burning house with people inside…

Nightly News Prison Break

Soundbites break skin
What isn’t said blares loudly
I watch the burning house
with people inside it

They show engulfed bodies
then move to feel-good fluff
while the warden tries to convince me
the firefighters are the enemy...

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I don’t take a pill for depression
I don’t want to miss the truth of the lesson
Most fear is distortion
Some sadness is golden
and sometimes the best singing is blue

Introducing: Mining the Gold of the Inner Life by Colleen Redman Every poem is a case note Every dream is sun for the soul Every love is a lifeboat Every life holds a vein of gold Poetry in my seventh decade: It all started with the idea of writing my memoir, le…

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They provide foster care, support and billable services via Medicare to people with disabilities.

MAKING AMERICA GREAT? Is pardoning violent rioters who desecrated the Capital and assaulted and injured police the way to make America great?  What about denying an election loss, refusing a peaceful transfer of power a…

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This is the poem I read at my dream group last week.

Poems from the Darkroom Poems from the Darkroom [Redman, Colleen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Poems from the Darkroom

POEMS FROM THE DARKROOM-is a proof of concept retrospective show, held to the light, poem by poem. It’s a poetry memoir and a travelogue of aging that zooms in on the big-picture questions where depth psychology and death mythology meet... www.amazon.com/Poems-Darkro...

Objects Are Closer Than They Appear Amazon.com: Objects Are Closer Than They Appear: 9798777308450: redman, colleen: Books

Every remnant pulled from memory or a dream resonates with an afterlife, as if it was a visitation from the same place where my dead loved ones are, closer than they seem. I'm writing the psyche’s story, leaving my poet’s thumbprint, love letters to whom it concerns. www.amazon.com/Objects-Clos...

Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife [Redman, Colleen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife

34 poems that probe the questions: 'How much does the essence of one's psyche weigh? Is the soul the one carry-on that we actually take with us? In the end, what do we value and what do we leave behind?'

"Playful yet dark, frank and funny..." author Jim Minick

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When No One Cries Wolf

The wolf doesn't need sheep's clothing
if the door is left open
If the bad apples are poison
and the fences are broken

If the good people are sleeping
and the rest are herded
the pack is emboldened
and the vulnerable forsaken...