Streetlight Magazine | Sharron Singleton | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/sharron/activity/ Activity feed for Sharron Singleton. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:48:06 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 040bb5b6872b21cea46779dda855b191 Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Haunted By Halloween by Priscilla Melchior https://streetlightmag.com/2019/10/25/haunted-by-halloween-by-pricilla-melchior/#comment-183671 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:22:25 -0400 Great story, Priscilla!

]]> 78852a16cc3b614cbd74322b71523c7a Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Meet Your Local Poets: Spotlight on Mary McCue https://streetlightmag.com/2020/03/23/meet-your-local-poets-spotlight-on-mary-mccue/#comment-120872 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:12:30 -0400 Lovely to see your face again and to read several of your poems! Blessings on you! Sharron

]]> f588d99c48fb03241247051601b84755 Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Woe Be Gone by Priscilla Melchior https://streetlightmag.com/2019/03/29/woe-be-gone-by-priscilla-melchior/#comment-68495 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:32:48 -0400 Priscilla, lovely writing. We’re enjoying Seattle but I miss you and all my VA friends!

]]> f459001360b65614dfa4d0f14f1b4421 Sharron Singleton commented on the post, When Called, Say Yes https://streetlightmag.com/2017/09/25/when-called-say-yes/#comment-36358 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 23:41:32 -0400 Wonderful inspiring essay! When one door closes, another opens perhaps?

]]> 07597a200db092d2dc3f51fe2dd25534 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=20386 Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:00:00 -0400 Thirty-Three
 
The number of vertebrae in the human spine
when coccyx bones are counted individually.

The temperature at which water boils on the Newton
scale. In Fahrenheit, just above freezing.

It’s a […]

]]> 2f30e00ec21a84f0310d7efe2682295d Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=20380 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:00:50 -0400 Beatitude
 
It is winter. It is cold.
Meek sky offers no color.
Hardwood skeletons assemble
along the treeline. Roots knuckle up
through blizzard’s encumbrance, grasping at sunrise.

Rhododendrons sa […]

]]> 71f1284284a1f9c80e0f8b4a508ae1fd Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=20384 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:00:31 -0400 The Bear’s Back
 
Last night I dreamt of a bear
who carries us through the forest on his back.
He goes through the mud,
we cling to his fur,
he wants to bury us
in a storyteller’s thro […]

]]> b6744d2ba6e7837e3be6a763de8f96b9 Sharron Singleton commented on the post, What is She Looking For? https://streetlightmag.com/2017/05/24/what-is-she-looking-for/#comment-36342 Tue, 30 May 2017 12:07:40 -0400 Wonderful introduction, Rose, of this poem and of yourself! Best of luck in the new job!

]]> 9c0f768ed7b0084b142e31faa1926ee4 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19792 Fri, 26 May 2017 13:00:38 -0400 Full Snow Moon
 
Fat and slow, she climbs the eastern sky
like an old woman climbs stairs,
holding onto tree branches and stars
to make her way to February’s zenith.
She rises on time, a beacon fully se […]

]]> 51e1c0f9965a5916968b3f2a2b21deed Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19796 Fri, 05 May 2017 12:00:15 -0400 Agnostic
 
In the bath a spider crawls along the ledge.
It’s tiny enough that it doesn’t scare
this arachnophobe. Isn’t that the way
fear works, the smaller the threat the less
a reason to run? Unlike the […]

]]> 7f37d33d91abc7035d25f0ff77a005f3 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19799 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:00:45 -0400 Common Stingray
 
                  Dasyatis pastinaca

In the infinite silence
   of her velvety skin, she roams
         through moon water at night,

scours coastal shallows, glides
   around th […]

]]> 21cb9ba268e3b5378d83243502d816ce Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Fuzzball and the Quakers by Lassiter Williams https://streetlightmag.com/2017/04/07/fuzzball-and-the-quakers-by-lassiter-williams/#comment-36331 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:27:14 -0400 And I also meant to say, beautifully written!

]]> 8d9066c21fcb2c8162c0841bc93e92d5 Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Fuzzball and the Quakers by Lassiter Williams https://streetlightmag.com/2017/04/07/fuzzball-and-the-quakers-by-lassiter-williams/#comment-36330 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:26:22 -0400 Incredibly strong, brave and moving. Thank you.

]]> b0e03db501052e1d2528bb676323d967 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18813 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:00:56 -0400 Blue
 
It must have been her accent
that seduced and baffled my ears.
The Egyptian woman, still lost
in the desert air of Cairo,
read her poems filled with water
from the Nile and blue heaven,
blue […]

]]> 09a40771c907ee3cba067248397c60b6 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19757 Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:13:47 -0400 In my almost 80 years it seems as if I have lived numerous lives because the world has changed so swiftly under my feet. My world now as a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, pastor’s wife and poet could n […]

]]> f4d57703b64c43f19eea53184ce25238 Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Open-Mic Poetry Night https://streetlightmag.com/2017/03/20/open-mic-poetry-night/#comment-36328 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:44:09 -0400 Moving story. Thank you and congrats on the poetry reading!

]]> 989335e7dc2d96bee27002d210f6f612 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18993 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:00:55 -0400 23 Feet Deep
 
The footway we walk sketches
brown lines on green fields that seem
to hover over the Irish Sea. All around us
sheep and cows hold their mouths to grass,
unmindful of heaven. This perpetual […]

]]> 03e05d9f6c2e8cd24176700eb9533fce Sharron Singleton commented on the post, The Ribbon Test by Lisa Ellison https://streetlightmag.com/2017/02/24/the-ribbon-test-by-lisa-ellison/#comment-36323 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:59:20 -0500 Lisa, I had no idea! How brave and strong you are. Thank you for the many insights I’ve gained through this essay.

]]> 6ed4219e189b058e0ab9e073b6e480e4 Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Excerpts From A Life: Margaret Klosko https://streetlightmag.com/2017/03/06/excerpts-from-a-life-margaret-klosko/#comment-36322 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:50:25 -0500 Thank you for this.

]]> 6765bdbab24f13ac2b53f63ced2ad25d Sharron Singleton commented on the post, "The Fish", A Love Story by Mary Esselman https://streetlightmag.com/2017/02/20/the-fish-a-love-story-by-mary-esselman/#comment-36317 Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:53:44 -0500 Absolutely terrific writing & a beautiful moving story.

]]> 5b394b0cf398c70f6a32113bb2ede859 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19393 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:13:15 -0500 As a child, one of the most thrilling things to me was the story my father told about how he, at the age of ten, first encountered Indians on a dusty road near the Flandreau Santee Indian Reservation in South […]

]]> 64de1334c0b31435dcbd1efb8a37b2bb Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19344 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:00:43 -0500 2nd place winner of the Streetlight 2017 Poetry Contest

My Grandmother Kills a Chicken
 
The hen house her grocery,
she strode the aisles of cluck,
straw, and feathers for eggs
reaching under each bird […]

]]> f307dda04512a776b9acd0c1a911dcc0 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19337 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:00:29 -0500 1st place winner of the Streetlight 2017 Poetry Contest

Thoor Ballylee
Home of W.B. Yeats
Massive stone, empty air, the river’s
cool breath, a space the poet enters.
Image stacked upon image reveals
his w […]

]]> f996265395b4bb1686e3dd27c1d914dd Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19341 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:00:23 -0500 3rd place winner of the Streetlight 2017 Poetry Contest

Witness
 
It seemed an unlikely spot for a prophet, the annual library book sale
in a dim warehouse on a summer day, but there she was,
rocking side […]

]]> d5f8cd0c78dd3099ecbbb5875210dbe0 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18979 Mon, 26 Dec 2016 14:00:42 -0500 The Blue Shirt
As the doors close on 2016 we may find ourselves casting a backward glance, not only on the past year but back over our entire life as well, especially if we’ve reached a certain age. For many of u […]

]]> a36eab52b0fdafe57c85824eb4f8e91e Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18314 Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:00:10 -0500 Mount Fuji
 
My friend always wanted to see the mountain
with its eternal snow, but she never
crossed the ocean to Japan. Instead,
she bought a small reproduction
of Hokusai’s “Boy Viewing Mount Fuji […]

]]> 1a9333495f4f47712dfe1816f68b7c0f Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18318 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 14:00:03 -0500 Dazzling Dinoflagellates
 
We gather when the moon is hidden
in earth shadow, stand in a group to hear facts,
take advice, don life jackets that cover our lungs,
our hearts. We drive toward a cove at […]

]]> 0a936fa53f6fa894e353edf140099d59 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18320 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:00:13 -0500 Art History
 
“A book ‘manuscript’ should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of us […]

]]> 2275cfe3ceda5c43b1524618aaaf406c Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18311 Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:00:58 -0400 Water
 
Not all water is silk,
not a curtain closed
against a mountain.
Not every rivulet runs
to a river. Not every
rainstorm beats fists
against the pavement
or hammers umbrellas.
It doesn’t even ta […]

]]> 33b88b4dcb11d6ac8499f8062e1ea83b Sharron Singleton changed their profile picture https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/669/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:36:45 -0400 0 8a38eded26d07905c942008ebe03e562 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17854 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 02:25:50 -0400 I often use this poem, The Summer Day by Mary Oliver, in my poetry workshops to demonstrate the importance of paying attention in the writing of poems:
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black […]

]]> 75d35e78f577a0453480c296af47d3c9 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17279 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:29:08 -0400 Wedding in Richmond
 

they’re roasting a pig at Tuckahoe Plantation
crowds gather on the grounds
where little Thomas Jefferson once lived
sweet jasmine tangles in the garden
banjos play on the […]

]]> 327bcca0e5ec6a840ea18b11e34a9748 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17046 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:19:22 -0400 Snow Falls Off Bare Branch
 
At a reading, the poet responds to the art
of the Japanese woodblock. But I only see
the man’s head blocking my view,

white hair combed counterclockwise, hiding
terrain wh […]

]]> 56cb93262bb647fc95eeb1683f321948 Sharron Singleton wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16995 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:46:10 -0400 As the new poetry editor of Streetlight, I find myself caught between the delights and demands of poetry and the nightmare of current events happening here in our nation and globally. I want to attempt to answer a […]

]]> 4ea0107f03d2da98c72a14c9ec369c88 Sharron Singleton and Karol Lagodzki are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/107/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 22:50:51 -0400 0 6a1cdeb20800301798da142588b5706e Sharron Singleton and Elizabeth Howard are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/98/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:25:26 -0400 0 379a009f613cad0758b1f9149ef76b8c Sharron Singleton and Trudy are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/92/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:23:52 -0400 0 cb6bcb59ba01ddb63df1d9bfe61c08f2 Sharron Singleton and Suzanne Freeman are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/90/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:23:20 -0400 0