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Posted on January 8, 2021

Poetry Friday: Pandemic Panacea

A while ago, before the vaccines for COVID-19 were approved, I was playing with some alliteration. This is a work in progress, but in absence of other words coming to…

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Posted on November 27, 2020

Poetry Friday: Tom Turkey

Tom Turkey said, gobble, gobble as he took a small wobble towards the shiny fence that cost more than a few pence. A young child approached sure the perimeter could…

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Posted on November 13, 2020November 13, 2020

Poetry Friday: Cabin, Sweet Cabin & other Haiku

Next to me on the chair the pillow states, Refuge Cabin Sweet Cabin Says the same as Home Sweet Home There’s no place like it. Luckily, we can reach our…

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Posted on November 6, 2020November 6, 2020

Poetry Friday: Consumption

For the past month, I have been consumed by poetry. Constantly, I am thinking about it, writing with words that rhyme or follow a cadence in my head. Poetry. The…

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Posted on October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

Poetry Friday: October Rain

Welcome to Poetry Friday. My poem today, October Rain, was inspired by the weird weather we experienced yesterday in West Central Wisconsin. Sunny, stormy, rainy, along with tiny hailstones, and…

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Posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

Poetry Friday: I Took a Grasshopper for a Ride and Other Seasonal Inspired Poems.

A Fondness for Bugs Come along with me on your golden carpet of petals. There you sit so still and full of pride evident you are ready for a ride.…

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Posted on June 26, 2020June 26, 2020

Poetry Friday: Chartreuse, Another Color Poem

I compiled all the color poems I’ve written over the last three years of blogging, as well as a few I wrote with my students before The Apples in My…

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Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

Poetry Friday: Pandemic Haiku

Today is Poetry Friday. Upon arising, I was not sure I was going to write poetry today.  I just “wasn’t in the mood.” Instead, I headed out to the garden…

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