Egg Money by KateLynn Hibbard

by Tracy Rittmueller | May 31, 2020 | Sunday Morning Lyricality

Welcome to Sunday Morning Lyricality, featuring a weekly song or poem by a Minnesota writer, followed by a prompt to help you write your own poem. Dr. Dorothee Ischler of the Center for Healing and Resilience in Northfield, MN says that validation “can be a...

advice for coping with cacophony of life’s noise by Mardi Knudson

by Tracy Rittmueller | May 24, 2020 | Sunday Morning Lyricality

Welcome to Sunday Morning Lyricality, featuring a weekly song or poem by a Minnesota writer, followed by a prompt to help you write your own poem. When things get difficult, frightening, depressing, or overwhelming, it becomes especially important to treat...

Dear Mimi by Laura Hansen

by Tracy Rittmueller | May 17, 2020 | Sunday Morning Lyricality

Welcome to Sunday Morning Lyricality, featuring a weekly song or poem by a Minnesota writer, followed by a prompt to help you write your own poem. “Dear Mimi” is addressed to the speaker’s grandmother, who, in the 1930’s, “escaped...

To the Rutabaga by Susan Thurston

by Tracy Rittmueller | May 10, 2020 | Sunday Morning Lyricality

Welcome to Sunday Morning Lyricality, featuring a weekly song or poem by a Minnesota writer, followed by a prompt to help you write your own poem. How rich this poem is, how different in feeling from the mundane task, which could have been described simply by...

[a door asks you to live] a “Light” poem by Betsy Johnson

by Tracy Rittmueller | May 3, 2020 | Sunday Morning Lyricality

Welcome to Sunday Morning Lyricality, featuring a weekly song or poem by a Minnesota writer. When will we get back to normal? This poem may be asking us to consider that the door to the past–what was– has been bricked in. Perhaps we can find a wild...