Published Poems

Mark Scarborough, host of the lyric poetry podcast Lyric Life, reads and analyzes Tamara Madison’s poem What Now Is Like

Click the links below to read each poem … 

Moth on a Mirror

Mothers

My Children Ask me Why I Have So Much Stuff

Odessa

One Thanksgiving

Orchid Cactus

Painted Lady

Petrichor

Pilgrims in Red Square

Prelude

Redwoods

Russian Scrabble

Saudade

Single Life

Skiing

Spray Rig

Snow Tango

Squirrel World

Staying With My Sister

Stillborn

Summer

Sweet Potato

Tailless

Tasting Pine

The Broken Bowl

The Great Sea

The Labor it Takes

The Man on the Moon

The Musicians

The New Room

The Return of the Subjunctive

The Singer

The Tyranny of Photographs

The Wolf in Your Heart

The Wood Duck’s Home

Tinnitus

To a Grieving Friend

To a Hornworm, I

To a Hornworm, II

To Swimming

Treehouse

True Companion

Ukraine

Vehicle

Waiting for the Scythe

What Now is Like

What You Can’t Give Away

When The Owl Speaks

Who Are We to Think?

Work Ethic