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Valentine’s Day – The Mouth of My Monster
February 14th is different for me. Years ago, I was married on this day. Two months prior, I nearly bled to death. As life drained out of me and my skin color blended with the white sheets in the...
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May 3rd
This morning a writer friend sent a YouTube video via private message. It’s A Beautiful Day’s "White Bird." Not sure why James sent it, but no matter… it was a lovely gesture. "White Bird" has...
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Far From the Madding Crowd – The Movie
I’m not sure I’ve done a movie review on my blog but the images of this film are firmly lodged and this keeps me from doing real work….Hardy took his title, Far From the Madding Crowd from the 1871...
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Zero for the Mother
I weep for the marbled murrelet,mollusks, brown pelican, the cutthroat trout,and southern sea otter, least tern, red throated loon…an infinite list ofInnocent, defenseless life that swallows elixir of...
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Swing Your Lantern High
Our children need us. But we need them, too. I needed mine, God knows. They kept me stable, going from day to day, year after year, when things around me sometimes felt like more than an earthquake. I...
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Tonight I Think About Tomorrow
Tonight I think about tomorrow. Fourteen years ago.We went to bed innocent and woke up completely startled. Furniture and dogs were kicked. Implacable disbelief. Merciless reality. Overturned lives,...
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Postcard Poetry Fest 2015
Here are the saved poems from the Postcard Poetry Fest I participated in the month of August. There are, undoubtedly, common threads running through these days and reflect what was going on in my life...
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Vertigo - Not Just a Scary Movie
The Epley ManeuverMiraculous is not a word that gets overused in my personal vocabulary. I had vertigo for a long time, off and on and sometimes debilitating. A couple years ago, I had a fierce episode...
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Prayers and Borders
Prayers and BordersBorders and prayers we can do without.Pray? To whom? For what? A hurricane hit the coast of Mexico and spared Puerto Vallarta because people prayed? Methinks the people in the...
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Let me tell you what it's like to be filled with terror.......
What’s it like to be filled with terror? Let me tell you… Today I watched a great football game (Hawks won over the Vikings in a real beating), then I went to a meeting at a library. A normal Sunday. I...
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2015
This is what I’ve learned:A homeless person can find a home for a dog but a dog cannot find a home for a homeless person. Small groups of ambitious people who want to make something good happen can...
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PLEASE, LOOK DOWN, FAIR MOON
So many mother's babies have been lost in recent weeks, the result of horrifying warring. I was compelled to write a poem at the time of the deaths of three innocent boys, hitching a ride home from...
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April 14, 2016 The prompt is to Write a Time-Out Poem
(Every Tuesday and Thursday, I go to a yoga class at the Y for one hour. This is my time. No phone. No contact. I am alone in a sea of people who are also alone; we are doing ourselves. We are doing...
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April 15, 2016 - Today's prompt is to write a poem using at least 4 of these...
Syrians On the blacklist of lifeFight tooth and nail to climb into a flat vesselNot one life ring. No paper, just the shirt on his backThe baby in her arms, the mark on the soulWishing not for lavish,...
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April 16, 2016 "For today’s prompt, write a poem about (or at) a food...
The Taco Stand by Farmacia Guadalajara open late afternoon with guarantee of customers, taco stand next to brightly lit pharmacy comes to life with scented smoke and the sounds of knives chop chop chop...
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April 17, 2016 Today is International Haiku Poetry Day!
children at the beachdelicious summer weatheron the horizon
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April 18, 2016 --- Write a poem about an office
Today's prompt was a tough one for me and I ended up doing an Acrostic poem, which is a bit lame. I apologize. On Monday, employees drag theirFeet and can’t wait til Tuesday just so it won’t be...
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April 19, 2016 - Write a cool poem
Today's prompt was a challenge; all I could think of was Cool Hand Luke.Paul Newman followed me around all morning and erasing the image of the movie's crucifixion pose was impossible.Luke Jackson was...
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April 20, 2016 - For today’s prompt, write a poem of what goes unsaid.
I Would Have You Again I walked away.You think I never looked back?I did.I watched the Caller ID every time you called. I almost picked up many times.There were so many things I wanted to ask… But I...
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April 21, 2016 Poem In a Pocket Day ----For today’s prompt, write a poem that...
Tonight I Can Not Write(Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda)Tonight I cannot write what I need to say to you. The words won’t come. I cannot tell you how the sound of the wind clattering in the palms...
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