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Category: Poetry
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This is kind of fun. I was going through Google Docs and found this little, what to call it.. ditty? poetry? (heavy on the question mark). I think it’s a list of the last lines of journal entries from this past year. I’m not sure if they were randomly selected or what. It must have…
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To continue my little celebration of National Poetry Month I thought I’d read you one of my favorite poems, “Music Swims Back To Me” by Anne Sexton. http://vimeo.com/10749112 Years and years ago I bought a cassette tape (that is how long ago it was) of Anne Sexton reading her work (that is how much of…
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http://vimeo.com/10647024 I wanted to participate in National Poetry Month so I made a video of myself reading a Pantoum I wrote last year. The poem is from an old letter I found in my mom’s genealogy files years ago. It was written to my grandmother when she was researching our family history and it is…
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My husband wrote me a Limerick about turning 41: In the town of Sandy, Oregon ‘Had a wife just turned 41 She’s as fancy as ever and equally clever and the yarn of her life’s just begun. I love that guy! 🙂
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Oh Lordy, Lordy You’re turning 40 What will you do to get by? Here’s an idea When others do see ya And ask ’bout your age Tell a lie. -R.P. These things just come to him out of thin air. And my annual self portrait:
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