A Moment’s Flicker
/Extroverts are the loneliest
Wisdom comes from broken dreams
Introverts cry for crowds of solace
Plotters mourn their skewered …
By Mike Turner
Read MoreWriting Gallery
Sunshine Is Waiting
/Greed, betrayal and difficulties abound
but the world is too large for evil to fill
there are places vice cannot reach
cannot decay…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreDelta Home
/Now the deep green cascade of summer
hangs from the edge of a blue silver dawn
in the still air ,trees whispering the name of a hurricane
the yard celebrates last nights …
By David Wetzel
Read MorePartin’ (Parton) Legacy
/A lesson from Dolly’s legacy…
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Strive to live your life
so that when you move on
While people may acknowledge…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreInhale The Coming Season
/Stop searching
what you seek will find you
time to withdraw into the shadows and heal
inhale the coming season…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreSeeing You Again
/Seeing you again was such a delight
although my initial reluctance to meet you
was colored by previous experiences
where meeting old friends…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreFeel The Shift
/Feel the shift
in perspectives, in attitude, in thinking
and how these keys have …
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreHow Do I Praise You?
/We praise God freely for …
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How do I properly praise You, my Lord? Should I speak of Your glory and power? Brag that You who created the mighty ocean, also, created the delicate flower? I could marvel at Your timelessness as the author of …
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreBeware of the Heat
/At any age, we need to be aware …
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We thought of ourselves as courageous and brave.
We can hike for hours in this horrendous heatwave.
“Joe, we can’t walk five steps in this serious…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MorePoetry & Life
/I’m finding a good bit of my reflection and writing of late, dealing with “why” I’m writing poetry…
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Poetry - or any art
Is not merely an activity
Nor even a compulsion
But a way of life
An attempt to make order
Of the world around us
To find understanding
Meaning
Appreciation of beauty
Connection to the interrelated
unity of all that is
Sharing all we thus learn
With our fellows
In hopes of validating what we feel
And enabling others to feel it too
By Mike Turner
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