Angels and Demons: An Affirmation of One Woman’s Life by D.L. McHale
"Woman Reflecting" (charcoal and ink) Dennis McHale, 2015© There is much power and beauty in her world, yet her soul is divided into two houses: One is spare and darkly decadent, surrounded by high...
View ArticleABSTRACTIONS by D.L. McHale
"Abstractions" pen and ink on rag paper: by Dennis McHale© 2015 ABSTRACTIONS Her sexual abstraction takes even the most depraved of men by surprise. She boasts of her conquests in morning’s...
View ArticleThe Receding Tides of Love by D. L. McHale
It is easy to say goodbye – to meet again is hard. Love gone like rose petals fallen on flowing waters. My thoughts of are like flowing waters, meandering toward the open sea on a hopeless journey. In...
View ArticleI CHOOSE LOVE
(Music video by Shawn Galloway) (Poem by D. L. McHale) to suffer is to love to love is to suffer… I have known life I have known love I choose love I have known hate I have known love I choose love I...
View ArticleDYSTHYMIA (Depression) by D.L.McHale
It does not speak English, Spanish, French, or Italian, or any intelligible utterance known to this world. It is a darkness devoid of spoken words; a tongue savagely ripped from the mouth of the...
View ArticleWHERE IS OUR STORY by D.L.McHale
Photo credit: Jazmin Dakar© Death in Syria and Libya, financial collapse in Greece, fires in California, ISIS atrocities in Chattanooga, famine in the Sudan, murder by cop everywhere! The list is...
View ArticleFAIRY TALES by D. L. McHale
I wrote this poem 25 years ago. It was the beginning of my insanity! (photo credit: H. L. Cross) Rainbows are illusions – There are no pots of gold, And unicorns have never grazed In emerald fields of...
View ArticleMy thoughts on life….
We are closest to God when we exhibit compassion. We are furthest when we withold it. – dlmchale
View ArticleFREE OPEN INVITATION TO SUBMIT: International Mail Art Project – Life in the...
To All My Friends and Followers of “THE WINTER BITES MY BONES” Artists from all over the world are invited to participate in this International Mail Art Project organised by the Faenza’s...
View ArticleSUICIDE SISTERS by D.L.McHale
My Suicide Sisters! Would that I could deeply reach beneath the dark-moist earth pulling upward closely to my breast fistfuls of your white-bleached bones – to feel the jagged edges pressed against my...
View ArticleEMBRACING CRITIQUE by D.L. McHale
One of my closest friends confessed to me today that she was strongly contemplating giving up her blog because one of her readers keeps disparaging every written entry as “amateurish” and...
View ArticleSNOQUALMIE FALLS by D.L.McHale
Salish Lodge, Snoqualmie Falls, WA The ground beneath my feet rumbles. Softly at first, and then with each step increasing in its timbre. The air is damp and mossy with a gray light filtering through...
View ArticleIT IS THE SEASON by D.L.McHale
“God talks in the trees.” — Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas It is the season of sleeping late while dreaming of red-orange trees shuddering in the evening breeze. These are the short days when the...
View ArticleDYSTHYMIA (Chronic Depression) by D.L.McHale
It does not speak English, Spanish, French, or Italian, or any intelligible utterance known to this world. It is a darkness devoid of spoken words; a tongue savagely ripped from the mouth of the...
View ArticleWHERE IS OUR STORY by D.L.McHale
Death in Syria and Libya, financial collapse in Greece, fires in California, ISIS atrocities in Chattanooga, famine in the Sudan, murder by cop everywhere! The list is endless. Where are the uplifting...
View ArticleFAIRY TALES by D. L. McHale
I wrote this poem 25 years ago. It was the beginning of my insanity! (photo credit: H. L. Cross) Rainbows are illusions – There are no pots of gold, And unicorns have never grazed In emerald fields of...
View ArticleMy thoughts on life….
We are closest to God when we exhibit compassion. We are furthest when we withold it. – dlmchale
View ArticleFREE OPEN INVITATION TO SUBMIT: International Mail Art Project – Life in the...
To All My Friends and Followers of “THE WINTER BITES MY BONES” Artists from all over the world are invited to participate in this International Mail Art Project organised by the Faenza’s...
View ArticleSUICIDE SISTERS by D.L.McHale
My Suicide Sisters! Would that I could deeply reach beneath the dark-moist earth pulling upward closely to my breast fistfuls of your white-bleached bones – to feel the jagged edges pressed against my...
View ArticleEMBRACING CRITIQUE by D.L. McHale
One of my closest friends confessed to me today that she was strongly contemplating giving up her blog because one of her readers keeps disparaging every written entry as “amateurish” and...
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