- New This Week -
Abigail came growling on a cold and frosty morn ... Smells Like Hooters
all together now ... tinkety tink in clickity clack and pink
hypocrisy in the smallest of packages ... labels and lies
The Poetry of Violet Moodswing
Welcome to my website. I'm an Odessa, Texas poet, short story, and song lyric writer. I hope you'll find my poems fresh, contemporary, and spiritual.
If you'd like to hear some of my poems set to music, please visit the Coming Soon web site. For an artsy perspective on animal issues and politics, visit Knuschka.
Use the icons to the left to view the content of individual poetry volumes or, if you'd rather, you can view the complete list of poems. You can also view my work by visiting my site on allpoetry.com
Poem, lyric, or verse - Songs that make you curse - In literature - You can be sure - You have read something worse.
Poetry sweeps through daily life. It dances between pen and paper, mouth and mind, to swirl in a creative cosmos of everyday. Its music is sunrise that eagerly greets day and shrieking howls as north winds lead cold fronts into night driving us under cover to long for spring. Poetry surrounds the mundane of channel surfing cable newscasts or beats of skateboards drumming sidewalks outside windows in apartment breezeways. When heard above worldly noise that screams gray day, it touches or shocks into dreams that are reality.
I listen to the world around me with a different ear. My writing often takes on its own life as it falls from my pen. My literary tastes as are varied as the flavor of roadsides in a West Texas spring when weeds transform into wildflowers. Here you will find pieces of me, seeds thrown out in the wind to bloom where they land. I invite you to join me in my dance through life, love, and personal vision and encourage you to pick up your own pen.
Violet Moodswing
