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Earth Day, Cont.
—Public Domain Photos PATIENCE TAUGHT BY NATURE—Elizabeth Barrett Browning“O Dreary life!” we cry, “O dreary life!” And still the generations of the birds Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and...
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Bossa Nova-ing Into Spring
—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Michael Ceraolo, Caschwa (Carl Bernard Schwartz)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CATHE RULE OF THE DRAGYN QUEEN—Joseph NolanSomewhere, deep in...
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Illusions of Death
Death Just Stares—Poetry and Spring Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CADEATH OF A LANDSCAPE(after “Draft of a Landscape” by Paul Celan)Razed. Stricken. Dug up and abandoned.Graves. Memory’s neglect....
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The Tulips Are Open Now
—Poetry by Nancy Haskett, Modesto, CA—Public Domain PhotosIF I HAVE TO WRITE A POEM ABOUT THE MOON Recently, I heard someone say that every poet needs a poem about the moon, and if that’s true,...
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Writing on the Wall
—Poetry by Linda Klein, Los Angeles, CA—Public Domain PhotosLIFE, TIME AND DEATHSometimes you can see the writing on the wall,telling you—you will never get to the other side of it.[There is the...
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Before It's Gone
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA QUICK, BEFORE IT’S GONE What interloper-grass grows here? Just see the pathways I’ve mowed clear. If tufted green turns to fire-fox of summer...
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The Lilacs Are In Bloom
—Public Domain Photos MAY DAY—Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)A delicate fabric of bird songFloats in the air,The smell of wet wild earthIs everywhere.Red small leaves of the maple Are clenched like a hand,...
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Webster's Visit
—Public Domain SketchesWEBSTER’S NOOSE—Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA At dinner, just afterwards, Longfellow told me a terrific story… —Charles Dickens, to Wilkie Collins, January 12, 1868At the...
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Flowers, Baseball and Big Fat Jays
THE DEATH OF SPRING —Sue Crisp, Shingle Springs, CA We waited patiently under winter's pall.Waiting to push up through ground now warming,to join the beginning of spring.Daily we sought sun's light,...
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Startling the Moon
How Things Can Change—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CAFULL MOON IN POND THROUGH TREES WHEN IT BEGINS TO RAINTwo drops of rain make use of stillnessto explain how things can change—be...
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Collaboration
—Photos of St. Peter’s Basilica Dome Courtesy of Public Domain—Poetry by Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA THE ALTERING OF THE DOME: ST. PETER’S As pundits quack of Shakespeare that his youthfulHand, marring...
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Duende of the Devout
—Poetry by Sam Barbee, Winston-Salem, NC—Artwork Courtesy of Public DomainDEAD LANGUAGE You sit alone on the porch,rocking in moonlight, faintin the glow of cigarettes and Merlot.Ignored, another...
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Letting in the Moon
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA—And scroll down for FORM FIDDLERS’ FRIDAY!!MOON HORSE Wake from the darkest sleep. Sweep of moonlight as deck clutter’s paled, veiled in soft...
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Stars of the Dawn
—Poetry by Yuan Hongri, China—Translated by Yuanbing Zhang, China—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CATHE STARS OF THE DAWN When the sky gallops like the riversyou stand in the...
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Mother's Day
—Public Domain PhotoTHANKS, MOM —Caschwa, Sacramento, CA my mother was a chameleon of sorts, the birth order of her offspring dictating what role and color of parent she would assume for the first...
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Shadows Chasing Shadows
Welcome to Monday!—Poetry by Joseph Nolan, Michael Ceraolo, Caschwa (Carl Schwartz)—Public Domain Photos Courtesy of Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CAPLAYING HOUSE—Joseph NolanLet’s pretend that we got...
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Big Mama and Her Sweet Jazz
Love For Ever And For Always—Poetry and Photos by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CASWEET JAZZI’m driving alongto sweet jazz.Sweet Mama!Driving along.Sweet jazz on my radio.Sweet Mama . . .How you loved to...
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Nothing to Prove
—Poetry by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, West Covina, CA—Artwork/Photos Courtesy of Public Domain GOOD MORNING You greet me good morningand that greetingit stays with me for a while. I got nothing to...
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Never Alone
—Poetry and Artwork by Douglas Polk, Kearney, NE THE COMMUNITY OF LIGHT the darkness battled,but never alone,light always exists,even if diminished,souls who have gone before,and the innocent light...
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Bitter-sweet Secrets
—Poetry and Photos by Taylor Graham, Placerville, CA VOYAGER for Roxy Where do we dream-travel, when dark holds us fast in sleep? I’ve watched you in long trajectory—not an arc, but aimed...
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