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March 17, 2015

Like Santa Ana Winds

The Poetic Winds of March are blowing over at dVerse Poets Pub today. Kathleen Everett has challenged to write about the wind or to use the wind as a character or presence. I decided to combine my two favorite winds in this poem. The first...

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March 7, 2015

The Beginnings of a Poem

This is the beginning of a poem I’m sharing for Meeting the Bar at dVerse Poets Pub, following the Oulipo option from Anna. Playing with language and poetry rules, I’m writing a poem with the following self-imposed rules: It’s a Terza Rima with 26 stanzas...

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February 26, 2015

The Cost

We’re jousting over at dVerse Poets Pub today as the tournament continues. The challenge is to take one line from either Brian’s or Claudia’s poem, posted there, and write a new poem with that one line included. I cheated a little and took the last...

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February 18, 2015

Nemesis

The Faith and Culture Writers Conference word for the day on Facebook today was Nemesis. And I saw this poem. Nemesis Fear, my nemesis my arch-enemy my long-time rival Fear tries relentlessly to crush me prevent my survival Fear once held me tight in its grip and...

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February 17, 2015

Fat Tuesday

I wrote this poem three years ago for Mardi Gras and thought I’d share it again this year. It will be included in my next poetry book, tentatively titled “Rejoice Rejoice: Poems for Holidays, Seasons, and Special Occasions.” Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras We call it...

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February 12, 2015

The Perfect Center – A Sestina

In Bible Study Fellowship we are studying the Life of Moses. One of the great truths about God that we are learning in Leviticus and Numbers is that God desires to be at the center of our lives, and that when He is at the...

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