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Category: Poetry
I like to write poems from time to time. And sometimes I’ll share them.
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The river rushesTaking everything with itWhile the rocks are still.
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What came from the stars Anything is possible Oink-a-doodle-moo ——————————————- Our library network is having a book spine poetry contest and one of the categories is haiku. I love a poetry challenge so I thought I’d try. It’s harder than it seems!
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The glass slips out of my grasping hands. CRASH! A thousand suns glisten on my kitchen floor. The death poem is a tradition in Zen Buddhism. Our sangha writes one at the new year every year as a way to reflect on the past year. I believe the tradition is that Buddhist monks wrote them…
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“Blue girl Red state” Idaho plate.
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I just realized that today is World Poetry Day! So in desperation I searched for something to post and I dug up this gem from a few years ago: my friend and colleague reading “What Is Poetry” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Her husband is on bongos. I’ve posted it before but it’s worth a re-post.…
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