A few days ago, I posted a poem, Grandma’s Button Box, about the box or jar grandma’s used to keep extra buttons in, in case we lost one off our shirt or jacket. The last stanza in this follow up poem kept running through my mind, and since it didn’t seem to fit in Grandma’s Button Box, I wrote another poem just for it. Sharing it on dVerse Poetry Pub’s Open Link Night #51 this afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged grandma’s button box
Buttons Out
July 3, 2012 at 4:07 pm · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Mostly true, Poems, the good old days ·Tagged button jar, Charles L. Mashburn, grandma's button box, http://dversepoets.com/2012/07/03/openlinknight-week-51/, lost buttons, poetry, writer
Grandma’s Button Box
June 30, 2012 at 4:06 pm · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Mostly true, Poems, the good old days ·Tagged button jar, Charles L. Mashburn, grandma's button box, lost buttons, poetry, writer
A fellow poet and blogger posted a poem the other day that mentioned a shiny new button, and while commenting on it, I thought about my grandma’s jar of buttons. Sherry still has her grandmother’s beautiful button box, so I included a picture that shows it, as well as Sherry’s button jar. Anyway, the memory inspired the following poem. Enjoy! Reposting this one for dVerse Poets Pub’s “Poetics – Button, Button”. Read the rest of this entry »
Buttons Out
May 3, 2012 at 9:58 am · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Mostly true, Poems, the good old days ·Tagged button jar, Charles L. Mashburn, grandma's button box, lost buttons, poetry, writer
I posted a poem yesterday, Grandma’s Button Box, about the box or jar grandma’s used to keep extra buttons in, in case we lost one off our shirt or jacket. The last line in this follow up poem kept running through my mind, and since it didn’t seem to fit in Grandma’s Button Box, I wrote another poem just for it. Read the rest of this entry »
Grandma’s Button Box
May 2, 2012 at 11:47 am · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Mostly true, Poems, the good old days ·Tagged button jar, Charles L. Mashburn, grandma's button box, lost buttons, poetry, writer
A fellow poet and blogger posted a poem the other day that mentioned a shiny new button, and while commenting on it, I thought about my grandma’s jar of buttons. Sherry still has her grandmother’s beautiful button box, so I included a picture that shows it, as well as Sherry’s button jar. Anyway, the memory inspired the following poem. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
Buy "Be Still" from WestbowPress.com
