Tag: poetry

• Pre-Order ‘The Condemned,’ Forthcoming September 2023

  

  “The Condemned: A memoir told through selected early works of short stories, essays, and poetry” will publish Sept. 9, 2023. Pre-order now to secure special, discounted prices!

  Shari Lopatin

  March 27, 2023

  publishing, writing

  book, creative writing, memoir, new book, poetry, Shari Lopatin, short stories, Writing

• 4 Reasons I Love Creative Writing

  Before I was a journalist, I was a creative writer. While I enjoy writing people’s stories, and occasionally aspects of my own, something about unfiltered creative writing really speaks to me. I truly love it. Here are four reasons why.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

  Shari Lopatin

  September 7, 2022

  For the Writers

  blogging, creative writing, Creativity, fiction, poetry, short stories, Writing, writing community

• To Those Who Mourn in Silence (100,000)

  

  © To Those Who Mourn in Silence, Shari Lopatin, 2020 (written 5-28-2020)   I see your pain in Silence. As you curl Away Into your private world, Lost, never found, And missing your 100,000. I sink with you Alone. And scoff at the smiles That mock Your loss. If silence is your Cry, I will…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 28, 2020

  Poems

  blogging, Coronavirus, COVID-19, creative writing, current events, death, grief, loss, mourning, pandemic, poem, Poems, poetry, Writing

• Screaming is What We Do Best (As Writers Writing for Nothingness)

  DO YOU EVER FEEL like writing nothing for the sake of nothingness, in a black hole of a vacuum of ideas, pandering and rambling about rambling in pure space and time, because the blank page mocks you into a fury? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I just want to write, and type, and stumble over words, words…

  Shari Lopatin

  August 13, 2018

  Personal Posts, Random Rants

  art, blogging, creative writing, inspiration, journaling, literature, poetry, reading, wordplay, wordsmithing, Writing

• America, How I Weep

      America, How I Weep A Poem, by Shari Lopatin ©Shari Lopatin, 2016   Oh America, How I weep for thee! My once beautiful muse, My distant refuge. Your maternal embrace Protected our grace, and welcomed My family whole.   But now I stand atop your dream, In cowardice and fear I glean ……

  Shari Lopatin

  November 17, 2016

  Poems

  #amwriting, America, creative writing, grief, mourning, poem, poetry, politics, Writing

• High School Poetry … and Stuff

  After three years of living in my house, I’m finally clearing out the stacks of boxes in my extra bedroom. I know … tell me about it. But whilst rummaging through old envelopes filled with random cards, scribbles and photos, I found some old high school poetry. And it really made me kinda sad. Because…

  Shari Lopatin

  August 27, 2012

  Funny Life Stories

  blogging, creative writing, Creativity, life, nostalgia, poetry, Writing