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Serving up a new poem for breakfast Monday thru Friday.
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Most Recent Servings:
The Thaw – A Poem by M. Anne Alexander
The Thaw A poem by M. Anne Alexander The Thaw With the thaw, this rosebud, flesh-pink, silken, responds to my touch with soft scents. She has survived, so far, though tears stream from…
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Leaving Seashells Along Riverbank Meadow – A Poem by Wendy Webb
Leaving Seashells Along Riverbank Meadow A poem by Wendy Webb Leaving Seashells Along Riverbank Meadow If earth is heaven in a shell, a priceless pearl selfheal, the riverbank shades whimsy’s leaf of dappled drifts…
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Rydal Cave – A Poem by Isabel Miles
Rydal Cave A poem by Isabel Miles Rydal Cave The ceiling of the cave’s a frozen storm at sea, its visitors, just people in a cave, together, vulnerable in water-dripping semi-dark. Goodwill wells up.…
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My 10-Year-Old Self – A Poem by Tricia McCallum
My 10-Year-Old SelfA poem by Tricia McCallum My 10-Year-Old Self I will take her tiny hand and she will lead me out of here. She makes sense of what I can’t these days. Cuts…
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Sourdough #6 – A Poem by Samuel Louis Spencer
Sourdough #6 A poem by Samuel Louis Spencer Sourdough #6 Did you get the loaf I left bereft at your door step? Did you slice it with the knife I cut you with that…
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On Returning Home – A Poem by Keith Gorman
On Returning Home A poem by Keith Gorman On Returning Home Shaggy hedges climb high around the mildewed shingles of the old yellow house like husky green leaves—the neck scarfs jacketing the late June rose.…
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