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God Bless the Poets
Some where between Now and Then Poetry has been lost. Somewhere between youth and age the words of Poets have become lost and forgotten and hidden from view. When I was a child, not so very long ago,...
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My Son Said, “I Am Angry At Robert Frost”
My son sits on the floor of my room Poetry books scattered all over the floor. He is looking through each slim volume, flipping through as I taught him looking for the one poem that catches his...
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“My heart—I thought it stopped. So I got in my car and headed for God”
Roger Ebert is gone. May he Rest In Peace and know that joy that he has brought to millions. My thoughts are with his family and friends as they begin to walk the path of grief. I have chosen to look...
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Rest in Your Special Kind of Wild * Shannon Hamann
This painting of Shannon is by celebrated artist, Attila Richard Lukacs *************** I thought today of an old friend and fellow Poet, Shannon Hamann. Shannon was some other creature than you or I....
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He is Fifteen Going on Forever
My son is learning to drive. His learners permit burns a whole in his pocket. He is ready. He is changing. He is Fifteen going on Forever. Tonight while I was trying to choose which of the thousands...
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Is That a Poem in Your Pocket or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
I LOVE Poem in Your Pocket Day! Thanks again to Poets.org Thursday, April 18th, 2013! Are you Ready! How will you celebrate? Peace and Poetry, Jen ********************* One year we were traveling out...
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“I Measure Every Grief I Meet” * My God Delivers
Two cards arrive the same day: one letting me know my aunt died 4 months ago, the other celebrating the life of a baby about to be born. Balance. I am thinking of the many definitions of Family and...
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Welcome National Poetry Month 2014!
Words have Power. They ease our pain, our grief and our sense of loss and loneliness. Words have Power. They give us courage, and strength and a new way to reach out into our lives. Words have Power....
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The Hard Truth and Those that Tell It
I love Poetry. I love Poetry Month. I also have a story to tell and this blog has been both canvas and therapy. I stopped. I stopped telling the story of my mother’s life and her death and her...
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“How Poetry Can Help People with Dementia”
My mother’s road through Wernicke-Korsakoff, alcoholics dementia, was a long and tangled one. I cared for her for years. As the dementia took over it became harder and harder for me to hold it all...
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