Michael Allyn Wells

Starting this afternoon I am dog sitting for a family member and starting a Labor Day Weekend Mini Writing Retreat. I have reading materi...

Always a poet, always searching in wonder.  To me, some things can only be seen through the prism of a poet's mind.   Its seems ...

So it's Friday night and what are you doing? Me, I'm transitioning from Diet Coke to Chardonnay.  I've been working for severa...

Friday and Saturday I did some writing and was pleased with the progress. Tonight I've taken another route. Tonight I'm the Planni...

The best laid plans for my day have been misplaced. So have a couple of older poems on my laptop.  I'm thinking ahead, I just wish I had...

Today is the birthday of Sylvia Plath. Plath is perhaps one of the first poet that caught my attention in such a way to interest me in poe...

Will I look back on the summer as the summer of discontent? The heat, the lack of rain, a time when the leadership (with a small l) in...

Before I retire for the night I feel compelled to say a few words about the number thirty-eight. Poets normally deal with words but at ...

I did...  I followed it to Target tonight.  This is one of two large balls outside one of the entrances of the Target Store. I chose to po...

Ouch!  I realized today that I plum missed Confession Tuesday.  On the upside, I took time out of work during my lunchour to make Ash Wednes...

It's finally Friday. Yeah! A bit of an oddity to report - I went nearly two weeks without a Diet Coke but alas I had one last night....

Dear Reader: It's been a week since my last confession. Actually 6 days if I'm going to be totally honest. It's Valen...

"Most of my life was spent not understanding, and I can assure you it was not easy."  ~ Rilke Superbowl Sunday and I have no des...

Dear Reader:   I put the trash on the curb this morning and therefore I know I missed the first Confession Tuesday of the New Year.   As a ...

11-11-11   I like the symmetry in the way this sounds. I suppose I should make as wish... can I make more then one? I know, that sounds gree...

This week I explored some notions about time and writing and what follows are a compendium of my thoughts: We all have 168 hours each w...

I was looking through some of my sent mail and cleaning out stuff tonight when I ran across a draft of a poem written in July of 2009 that I...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  ~ Anais Nin It seems to...

When I started the day it looked like the near future had rain in store for us. Suddenly the sky got the green light and the rain came.  Ton...

Great questions posed by Jeannine - Relative Success, Relative Failure - Life as a Poet .  Lots of food for thought.  No easy answers to the...