BLOG | Penny Harter's blog

Penny Harter

Oct 7, 20201 min read

[10/7/20]

I'm happy to share that my pandemic-practice poem "In the Shadows" is posted today at Writing in a Woman's Voice. ...

4 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Oct 3, 20201 min read

[10/3/20]

It’s been a while since a new poem found me. And this haibun feels quite different from the poems I’ve been posting in recent weeks....

9 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Oct 2, 20201 min read

[10/2/20]

Grateful for a lovely feature this morning: https://jamarattigan.com/2020/10/02/penny-harter-on-a-prayer-the-body-makes-and-writing-durin...

4 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Sep 22, 20201 min read

[9/21/20]

Though autumn has brought me both illness and loss over the years, it is still my favorite season. I can’t wait for the brilliance of the...

14 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Sep 12, 20201 min read

[9/10/20]

On my frequent rides out along nearby country roads, I think I learn from all the fellow creatures I see. Yesterday brought wild turkeys,...

10 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Sep 12, 20201 min read

[9/12/20]

Thin Places Moments, locations, within or without the confines of flesh and spirit, thin places call us, whisper memories we can barely...

5 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Sep 6, 20202 min read

[9/6/20]

Finally, a new poem—this Labor Day weekend haibun. Culling Clothes Day after day, I’ve been promising myself that I would get to sorting...

6 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Aug 27, 20202 min read

[8/25/20]

This poem was written late today in response to a photograph, “Early Morning Clouds in Water,” a picture prompt posted earlier by...

10 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Aug 27, 20201 min read

[8/27/20]

I'm posting this haibun out of chronological order. I wrote it early in the pandemic time but didn't post it then. It will be published...

9 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Aug 17, 20202 min read

[8/17/20]

Thanks to Tom Clausen for posting his morning photos and their accompanying text. The closing stanzas of Mary Oliver’s poem “Leaves and...

10 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Aug 13, 20202 min read

[8/13/20]

Yesterday afternoon when I cut open an avocado, I cut right through the pit, exposing its contents. This pit was not healthy, although...

10 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Aug 13, 20202 min read

[8.3.20]

This morning’s poem comes from memories of childhood summers. I wish I could go on a vacation this summer, but it’s not a good idea right...

8 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Aug 13, 20201 min read

[8/9/20]

After meeting a baby rabbit on the path, this new poem found me last night. When we’re open, to “seeing”, almost any moment can blossom....

5 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Aug 13, 20202 min read

[8.2.20]

Dog Days: the sultry part of the summer, supposed to occur during the period that Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the...

3 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Jul 30, 20202 min read

[7/30/20]

I haven’t written a new poem for almost a week now. The very hot and humid spell that we’ve been having here in South Jersey has been...

13 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Jul 22, 20201 min read

[7.22/20] Thanks to Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for this morning’s beautiful reading of Neruda’s poem

Thanks to Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for this morning’s beautiful reading of Neruda’s poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines”,...

4 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Jul 18, 20201 min read

[7/18/20]

After a few days off, another new poem: On this afternoon’s ride I decide to turn off on a dirt road that looks inviting, seeking the...

5 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Jul 16, 20201 min read

[7/13/20]

[7/13/20] Tropical storm Fay just swept up the East Coast, briefly pummeling the community where I live, about one-half hour inland from...

8 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Jul 16, 20201 min read

[7/12/20]

As probably more than a few of us have, I’ve become much more of a bird-watcher these pandemic days. Hence, the following poem, triggered...

6 views0 comments

Penny Harter

Jul 16, 20202 min read

[7/9/20]

The more quarantine days that pass, the more we are becoming unknown species to one another, especially now in these days of little...

10 views0 comments