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Recorded poem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e08hsgohcx56s7l/somebody%20smiles.wav?dl=
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Somebody Smiles
We struggle to assemble
All’s needed for the day ~
Mustn’t be late for the job
Not a time to play
Haiku: The Only Real Last Word Which Can Ever be Spoken
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The Only Real Last Word Which Can Ever be Spoken
Father
Forgive them
For they know not what they do
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Among us, poets are ill paid. In order to continue her work, this one currently lives in her minivan, on an income of a fraction of our nation’s poverty level. If her work has moved, enabled or uplifted you, a contribution to this effort may be made at: https://www.gofundme.com/kx4xka-are-you-a-patron-of-the-arts
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Standing in the Sun II 🌞
(Companion to immediately previous work, “Standing in the Sun”)
Continue reading “Standing in the Sun II 🌞”Standing in the Sun 🌞
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Recorded Poem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bavhym95e5bz2ep/Standing%20in%20the%20Sun.wav?dl=0
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Standing in the Sun
Diogenes, a character,
Chose to live in the village square
Shelt’ring in a barrel, he
Might call himself completely free
caught
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Recorded Poem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o74lpwomhky1pho/caught.wav?dl=0
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caught
in the sucking grip
of ego
Song of the Ordinary
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
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Recorded Poem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/og6vakkaa6ktbb8/song%20of%20the%20ordinary.wav?dl=0
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Song of the Ordinary
So oft we write in dire discomfort’s throes
Despairing any resolution of
The day’s disasters or, again, midst those
Nights sleepless spent of unrequited love
Wabi Sabi Teapot
(“Wabi Sabi” is the Japanese practice of finding beauty in natural imperfections)
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Recorded Poem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yl3x7dqmsmyh1rb/wabi%20sabi%20teapot.wav?dl=0
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Wabi Sabi Teapot
A little weathered
Some worn
A New Haiku
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A New Haiku
True intelligence, my
Intellectual friends, is
Cooperative
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Among us, poets are ill paid. In order to continue her work, this one currently lives in her minivan, on an income of a fraction of our nation’s poverty level. If her work has moved, enabled or uplifted you, a contribution to this effort may be made at: https://www.gofundme.com/kx4xka-are-you-a-patron-of-the-arts
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Moment of Truth
(As told to the poet by a friend of many years)
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Recorded Selection: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5nvlo63f428ze6q/Moment%20of%20Truth.wav?dl=0
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Moment of Truth
I’ve never seen anything so beautiful in my whole life, and I never expect to again, either.
Coming down in perfect, absolutely silent control over the rooftops — it must have been a mile in diameter, I don’t know.
Continue reading “Moment of Truth”Sonnet: How He Got it Back
(A true story from the life of Mark Twain)
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Recorded work: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nwj2yjmbjxq190r/how%20he%20got%20it%20back.wav?dl=0
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How He Got it Back
They say Samuel Clemens searched one day
A page of his popular story for,
Had been belov’d in such a major way
Not one copy possessed he any more
Troubador of Verse 