For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
This poem began when I noticed the roses budding up again, most aggressively. And in unison. Ready for all out war. Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for coming by! They come in gangs, the roses. They claw, and bite, and scratch. Their bolls, like bitten fingernails, Will grab what they can catch. …
This poem complains about the constant noise of modern life, and the incessant and often trivial demands for our attention. Sometimes, we just need to turn it all off. Wishing you relief, in this time of noise and bluster! For those who don’t know, Walter Cronkite was a news anchor on CBS in the …
A poem about a rose and its remarkable ability to withstand the worst of winter and to flourish anyway, come spring.
{This poem is in the style of “The Owl and the Pussycat” or “The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat,” both in rhyme scheme and in the unlikely pairings. This was obviously suggested to me, by my daughter Madelaine LeDew’s beautiful print. Her own artwork was at least partially inspired, by a line from the …
{I wrote this poem after visiting the compost pile and adding several handfuls of shredded documents, to top off the orange rinds, coffee grounds and bits of brown lettuce. Life is teeming, in the moist soil-in-the-making beneath. Like many of you, I have been trying to clean house during these long, dull days of …
Spring. This is the time of year, even in the coldest climate, when your thoughts turn to gardens. You may not, necessarily, spend a lot of time thinking about the work of gardening: the clearing of the spent beds, the weeding, the digging, the planting, the fertilizing, the mulching. But you do relish and long …
We are having a rare bout of cold weather in North Florida. And when I say “cold”, I am not using the regional definition, that is, anything under 60 degrees Fahrenheit. I am talking twenties and thirties here. Snow was reported. I had to scrape frost off my car. Such things are not common around …
