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Turning Tides
Day 20’s Poetry Pub prompt for the Poem a Day Challenge is “turning tides.” You may listen to me read the poem via the player below. Our rocky planet spins in a bubble Of water and stone that travels through space In a capsule of air. And gravity, The weakest…
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Sunday Evening Comin’ Down
The prompt for Day 18’s Poem a Day Challenge hosted by The Poetry Pub, is “harmattan” which the dusty NE wind that blows through West Africa in the winter. The dryness and dustiness can provide a metaphor to a heart condition that I experience when I am especially tired after…
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Second Joy
The Day 17 Prompt for The Poetry Pub’s November Poem a Day Challenge is a Form Friday prompt. The poetic form is “terza rima” — a form invented by Dante Alighieri which he employs in his Divine Comedy. This poem I’ve actually been working on for four years since attending…
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Nostalgia or Whatever
The Poetry Pub’s day 12 prompt for the November Poem a Day Challenge is “nostalgia.” I can’t even see that word anymore without thinking of C.S. Lewis’ sermon, “The Weight of Glory, in which he writes, In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in…
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Christmas Truce
Day 11: Poetry Pub Poem a Day Challenge prompt for NovPad2023 is “Favorite Season”. In honor of Veterans Day, I offer this stanza. My favorite is the season that interrupts The present way we think things have to be: When homesick soldiers Christmas Eve climb up Out of trenches, cross…
Backward Mutters 