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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…
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Wobble
Today’s Day 8 Poetry Pub Poem a Day Challenge prompt is “Equinox.” In this poem I talk about my experience with a speed wobble while descending on the Blue Ridge Parkway. These men steadied me early on ministry. Their companionship and camaraderie continues to bear fruit in my life, especially…
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No Time to Put Them Away
Since the pandemic, my wife and I have enjoyed Malcolm Guite‘s, Spells in the Library which he posted during the pandemic each week, but since things have normalized and schedules have returned to normal, his spells have been posted less frequently. We still love them, and are reminded of how…
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Bright/Dark
Poetry Pub’s November Poem a Day Challenge’s prompt for Day four is: Bright/Dark. Here’s an attempt. Noon is noon. It resists our manipulation In spite of attempts at hour inflation It comes neither late or too soon. New is new. The moon wanes each month does not listen To songs,…
Backward Mutters 