Darlene Franklin
My Top Ten List
This fall I returned to school after thirty-seven years. Often, I wear headphones while I’m I listen to an eclectic combination of music. I delight in finding videos of the music of my youth (sixties and seventies). But I also love discovering new-to-me groups, such as Home Free and Pentatonix. Musicals have had a place on my playlist since I was a child, and I played classical piano for many years.
Darlene FranklinPublished 7 months ago in Beat
What Leadership Means to Me
Leadership is that quality that allows a person to lead, plain and simple. Leaders can convince people to adopt follow their ideals and act as directed. Right?
Darlene FranklinPublished 8 months ago in Motivation
The Rhythms of Pain
Hello again, my morning pain. You come to me again, the same, because awake, my muscles screaming don’t allow for much more sleeping.
Darlene FranklinPublished 8 months ago in Poets
Unwelcome Guest
Alert! The rules have changed, because the awful truth is clear. Corona has arrived at the nursing home, dividing us into “haves” and “have-nots,” lines
Darlene FranklinPublished 9 months ago in Poets
First Lines
All this happened, more or less. Call me Ishmael. Mother died today. I begin with writing the first sentence— and trusting almighty God for the second.
Darlene FranklinPublished 9 months ago in Poets
Blue on Blue
Blue is the sea, the deep, deep sea, Blue as if berries had been crushed to make tea Dew drizzles honey into its depths Brewed by stormy nights to a perfect "B"
Darlene FranklinPublished 10 months ago in Poets
A Gray Day
Drifting through the fog, I cannot see my shadow. I lower the anchor and wait for the hovering mist to change to cloudy skies.
Darlene FranklinPublished 10 months ago in Poets