Category Archives: poetry

Off you g Click Clack Click Mrs. Whalen’s heels echo  down the long dark corridor of my mind   she is holding my hand too tight  walking too fast as I slip and slide beside her   earlier, I stood … Continue reading →

Posted on September 10, 2020 by katemccarrollmoore | Leave a comment

Poetry is Power

Posted on May 9, 2019 by katemccarrollmoore

Dear Naomi Shihab Nye, Congratulations on your selection as Young People’s Poet Laureate. Several years ago, I was fortunate to spend a weekend in your class at Asilomar. I still have the work I completed that weekend, including a detailed … Continue reading →

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Labor Day

Posted on September 5, 2017 by katemccarrollmoore

the heat has driven them from their hidden homes this dizzying ribbon of scurrying ants this furious swarm of circling bees while I sit here alone, in silence, watching in unmoving lethargy

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Homage

Posted on April 24, 2017 by katemccarrollmoore

He would have turned 90 today, had he lived another year His body, tinned ashes    buried beneath a tree, close to home soothed now by wind and swooping soaring birds   We called him birdmanmac forever trying to outsmart … Continue reading →

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Collective Memoir, Inspired by Miss Amy K.R.

Posted on August 13, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

We are nine well-traveled women sitting in a circle in a stranger’s backyard at the top of a late-summer hill reflecting on the world we left behind for a day feeling an overwhelming sense of gratitude and appreciation for this … Continue reading →

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Lasting Legacy

Posted on July 27, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

Today we gather in this beautiful park in a city of parks grown among the hills and trails and the life of a grateful community to remember the heart and the soul of a city pioneer, the one and the … Continue reading →

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Time Travel

Posted on July 3, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

Strapped into a metal cylinder Hurtling across the sky Through blue and cloud and nothingness Thoughts drift future forward Till with a jolt we land   Thrust into this space Where every thing is newness Familiar still Shadows of the … Continue reading →

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A Literary Prayer (with a nod to Irish Writer Samuel Beckett who made famous the literary truism that all poetry is prayer)

Posted on June 25, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

We are thought leaders in the library space This space to Inquire                                     Imagine                                                       Innovate                                                                         Inspire A place where words take wing when we commit to the power of 10 building a culture of digital literacy and citizenship … Continue reading →

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Haiku Filibuster

Posted on June 17, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

This summer’s day stand Is not selling lemonade words not guns, our plea

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Dedication

Posted on June 2, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

  Every year we gather To remember for one day The lives of those who are no more The lives of those who once were dedicated to the truth that all men are created equal that life, liberty and the … Continue reading →

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