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A Poem, My Mother’s Flowers, and the No Kings Connection
I know it’s been a while. But I thought today was the best day to share a little something personal -…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Heart’s Poverty
Heart’s Poverty Your heart was not edged in gold for love is no coin or currency. And all the riches of the world cannot…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Enough of Arguing
Enough of Arguing I am tired of words and even the music is getting old. There is more than what our lips say. Sit…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Always
Always Occasionally, we can breathe, really breathe instead of sucking on the humid remains of yesterday’s rain. We can smell the scent of life…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Survival of The Soul
Survival of The Soul I push the palm of my hand against hers. She pushes back. With heat and sweat and friction we rub…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Second Location
Second Location When attacked a woman must not allow her assailant to take her to the second location. There is no escape from there. That is where…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Delivering the Truth
Delivering the Truth Can you go it alone? Your army is lightyears away. You are an alien they treat like a traitor. Who are…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: March To Sunrise
March To Sunrise by Kay Kestner: March To Sunrise And with the dark of evening settling, it is time to keep marching…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: These Sorts of Things
These Sorts of Things by Kay Kestner: These Sorts of Things She takes seagull feathers builds a strange driftwood bird with crab claw…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Entering the Silence
Entering the Silence by Kay Kestner: Entering the Silence The night breaks open with the howling of a pup left out…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: To Hold the Stone
To Hold the Stone by Kay Kestner: To Hold the Stone This is your last desperate grasp for something you know will never…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Casually
Casually by Kay Kestner: Casually he drops the notice on the wind. Too many debts, who needs electric? Just as he starts…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Leaving the Station
Leaving the Station by Kay Kestner: Leaving the Station “Why are we waiting?,” she asked gently at the station. A small woman, sitting…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: A Novel Photographer
A Novel Photographer by Kay Kestner: A Novel Photographer The aperture whispers stories only he can hear. With a click, he writes…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: When the First Friend Dies
When the First Friend Dies by Kay Kestner: When the First Friend Dies We stepped into the dim space, mid-afternoon, eyes pinned…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: History’s Tangle
History’s Tangle by Kay Kestner: History’s Tangle Entwined in history’s books often left unread, we try to untangle a myth from a…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Keeping Ashes
Keeping Ashes by Kay Kestner: Keeping Ashes Believe in the light of this fire, fed with our own blood. We scarred ourselves…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Suicide And Cookies
Suicide And Cookies by Kay Kestner: Suicide And Cookies I bring him suicide and cookies at the library of course. Tucked away…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: If Only
If Only by Kay Kestner: If Only Often, it is said, we are of those among the shadows, day-born creatures traveling in the darkness. …
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Desert Madness
Desert Madness by Kay Kestner: Desert Madness I could touch the center of madness inside until the silence washed away the fears of…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Mother, Take Me Back
Mother, Take Me Back by Kay Kestner: Mother, Take Me Back Take me back into the womb. Mother. Your face has changed. …
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: The Music Remains
The Music Remains by Kay Kestner: The Music Remains When the words are so many you can no longer understand any of…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: The Empty Bottles
The Empty Bottles by Kay Kestner: The Empty Bottles His father is a line of empty bottles his mother will not throw…
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Daily Dose of Poetry – Today’s Poem: When His Sky Is Falling
When His Sky Is Falling by Kay Kestner: When His Sky Is Falling It’s not the falling sky that worries me this…
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Daily Dose of Poetry – Today’s Poem: Sewing Angels in the Dark (Song for Cynthia)
Sewing Angels in the Dark (Song for Cynthia) by Kay Kestner: Sewing Angels in the Dark (Song for Cynthia) I wanted…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Tug
Tug by Kay Kestner: Tug I’ve got 25 million more miles to go before I find some kind of peace of mind. And…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: A Dangerous Awareness
A Dangerous Awareness by Kay Kestner: A Dangerous Awareness we find our thoughts trembling at the sight of reality’s strange shapes somehow…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: Morning Commute
Morning Commute by Kay Kestner: Everyday her canvas soled shoes cross the street, travel down our road, and disappear into the woods. There is…
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Daily Dose of #Poetry – Today’s Poem: The Courage of Words
The Courage of Words by Kay Kestner: There is a courage in words. Look at the language your father was too afraid…
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Daily Dose of Poetry – Today’s Poem: Blue Wings
Blue Wings by Kay Kestner: It is only a blue bird ruff and gray breasted perched on the rusted chain-link fence that encloses…
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Daily Dose of Poetry – Today’s Poem: To Be Key Maker
To Be Key Maker by Kay Kestner: Too many doors are closed. Too many keys are missing. If only I could unlock you. If…
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Unstoppable Time – A Short Play – Just for Giggles
A little something from a writing prompt. Worth a giggle. Certainly not a masterpiece. An Unstoppable Time A short play By…
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No, The Records Are Not For Sale
Every record is a time capsule. The music of our youth holds a diary of our lives that goes far beyond…
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June 6 Poetry and Events
Flashback to June 6, 1999: Some highlights of the day, my favorite being the UK’s #1 Song: Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)…
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A Collaboration Under the Rainbow
In collaboration with the Ministry of Artistic Intent and the Water Witch Poetry & Reading Series, Poetry Breakfast held an editor’s roundtable reading at the Water Witch…
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