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In Present Moments
For The Sunday Whirl – Whirl #323 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ and Poets United: Poetry Pantry #376 http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ In Present Moments No longer limber enough to walk shoreline. Sigh at my inability to toss a pebble into cold morning mist, or hear the … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, no longer limber, past, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, present moments, sky as mirror, The Sunday Whirl, wordle
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April PAD Challenge: Final Day
For Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #109 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ mingle, woven, rope, daughter, splash, burning, daffodils, calendar, jays, branch, yours, first For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #297 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ spiral, saints, run, life, list, lace, settle, sum, prayer, itch, sing, chip Poets United: Poetry … Continue reading
The Gap Between Belief and Experience
For Sunday’s Whirligig: Wordle #27 http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/ light, dark, gone, fragments, leaves, eye, theft, erotic, dream, change, watch, clock For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #219 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ one, call, wind, share, nexus, left, press, flush, threats, list, swear, tender For Poets United: … Continue reading
Fog Isn’t Logical
For We Write Poems prompt 202: Journal Poem http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com Fog Isn’t Logical Saw three separate hawks in quick succession thought of myself and two sisters. Bright red truck on frontage road our maiden name in huge white letters emblazoned on … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, definitions, fog, internal dialogue, journal poem, Poetry prompt, poetry writing, virtues, We Write Poems
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Distillation of Truth
For Poets United Verse First Poetry Prompt: Truth http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Distillation of Truth When I was in my teens someone told me I had a gift for written words. I dismissed that missive. Thirties were spent playing hide and seek with … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, distillation of years, left unwritten, Poetry prompt, Poets United, realization, slowing down, Truth, Verse First
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Too Late?
November PAD Challenge Day 18: write an “it’s too late” poem http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/2011-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-18 Too Late? Have heard it said that it’s never too late for anything. Figure whoever said that must have been of … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, aging branches, birds perched, desires, nest, November PAD Challenge, one poem a day, too late poem
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Soul's Music 