Harris Tobias’ most recent poem to appear here was Spring (March 2013). Sea Cow By Harris Tobias I saw the sea cow and her calfPass below me on the bridgeI saw themTake a breath and carry onSo calm in manner and in mindI marveled at their strengthTheir length and breadthSo docile and peaceful is their kindDespite their […]
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Valentine
Joan L Cannon is a Manhattan native. She has published short stories, 2 novels, and poetry. Most of her adult life was spent in rural CT. She now lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. She contributes essays and book reviews regularly to Senior Women Web. Visit her blog. Valentine By […]
Honoring Bob Christin: The Words and The Music
It is with great sadness that I relate the news that Bob Christin has passed from this realm into the next. Bob was the founder and long-time leader of The Albright Poets, a Virginia-based writing group whose members have been kind enough to share a whole lot of their work here. A lifelong learner and […]
What the Women Wrote, 2
This is the third in an ongoing series of poems by women living with cancer. The women who wrote this met at a day camp program in the summer of 2012. The most recent poem of the series to appear here, What the Women Wrote, 1, was published in February 2013. What the Women Wrote, 2By […]
Content to Circle
Sy Roth’s poem Lot’s Wife appeared here in January 2013. Content to Circle By Sy Roth Incarceration in a watery globe,her world circumscribed by interminable circlesstarting where there is no end andending where there are no beginnings.Navigator of endless glass walls, uncovering nothing,discoverer of a stretch of perpetual waters,her reef-white rocks, and algae-capturing mesh.A world gyres from […]
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