Literary Crumbs: Poems & Short Stories to Savor by D. Ryan Lafferty

  • Bordentown Rises

    City of history, pride, and Paine, Hopkinson, Patience, and Bonaparte’s fame.   Pointe Breeze, the home to that brief King of Spain, leveled by fire, but the townspeople came.  Saving his riches and wealth from the flames, honest integrity earned his acclaim. Farnsworth, Borden, and Lafayette’s names sit atop main streets, alleys, and lanes.  From… Read more

  • Patience, The Man Who Waited

    In all the fables, I never read the story of the man who waited. Waiting, not like the yammering two, expecting Godot, but for things that only a lifetime of truly tried patience can keep. There must be a long-lost tale, spun by some grandfatherly slave to teach the virtue to his masters’ spoiled children.  A shot in… Read more

  • For Everone 

    Did you mean, for everyone?Or maybe just for anyone?Well, for whichever one… (if ever one) My proofreading eye, didn’t catch the y,my not-so-clever one. But, if you’ll abide, the truth’s inside,our time together’s just begun. Could it just be for you and me, the fabled city, Everone?!And this is where, we’ll find it here, ensnared in… Read more

  • Tuesday Afternoon at the Art Museum

    Though it could be any time of day.There are no windows here to spoil the image of the world. The view is always the same; paint-laden canvases,layered thick with trees, oceans, and countless bowls of fruit,all held by tension in heavy, golden frames. I love the colors,the shapes, and shadows; the forced perspective. It always… Read more

  • Coronal Mass Ejections: Poetry in the time of COVID-19

    Welcome to my first blog post. A little bit about me, I’m a seventh grade English teacher in New Jersey that writes and illustrates poems as well as children’s stories. I’ve formed my own imprint, Dartanion Press, named after my first original character (an imaginary lizard who comes to life when his friend needs him… Read more

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  • Bordentown Rises

    City of history, pride, and Paine, Hopkinson, Patience, and Bonaparte’s fame.   Pointe Breeze, the home to that brief King of Spain, leveled by fire, but the townspeople came.  Saving his riches and wealth from the flames, honest integrity earned his acclaim. Farnsworth, Borden, and Lafayette’s names sit atop main streets, alleys, and lanes.  From… Read more

  • Patience, The Man Who Waited

    In all the fables, I never read the story of the man who waited. Waiting, not like the yammering two, expecting Godot, but for things that only a lifetime of truly tried patience can keep. There must be a long-lost tale, spun by some grandfatherly slave to teach the virtue to his masters’ spoiled children.  A shot in… Read more

  • For Everone 

    Did you mean, for everyone?Or maybe just for anyone?Well, for whichever one… (if ever one) My proofreading eye, didn’t catch the y,my not-so-clever one. But, if you’ll abide, the truth’s inside,our time together’s just begun. Could it just be for you and me, the fabled city, Everone?!And this is where, we’ll find it here, ensnared in… Read more

  • Tuesday Afternoon at the Art Museum

    Though it could be any time of day.There are no windows here to spoil the image of the world. The view is always the same; paint-laden canvases,layered thick with trees, oceans, and countless bowls of fruit,all held by tension in heavy, golden frames. I love the colors,the shapes, and shadows; the forced perspective. It always… Read more

  • Coronal Mass Ejections: Poetry in the time of COVID-19

    Welcome to my first blog post. A little bit about me, I’m a seventh grade English teacher in New Jersey that writes and illustrates poems as well as children’s stories. I’ve formed my own imprint, Dartanion Press, named after my first original character (an imaginary lizard who comes to life when his friend needs him… Read more