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Lighting a Candle for My Father on the Anniversary of His Death

08.26.12 Posted in today's words by

Rhonda C Poynter is a professional freelance writer whose work has been published in more than 700 magazines, journals, and anthologies and she has just completed a collection of her poetry. Rhonda is widowed and lives in California with her son Gannon Blue. They have lived throughout the USA and in 3 countries but their […]


Budget

08.25.12 Posted in today's words by

Carol L Gloor is a semi-retired attorney who had been writing, mostly poetry, for 40 years. Her work has appeared in print and online, most recently at Christian Century, Sow’s Ear, Slant, Exit 13, Stymie: A Journal of Sport and Literature, and in the anthology A Bird in the Hand: Risk and Flight. Her chapbook, Assisted Living, is […]


Two by Bobbie Troy

08.24.12 Posted in today's words by

Bobbie Troy’s most recent poem to appear here was This is not how i thought it would be, published as part of Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays. Two by Bobbie TroyBy Bobbie Troy Answers there are no answersonly people who thinkthey have answers The greatest lesson i long to understandthe precious filamentsof the firmamentand how they […]


To Some Degree

08.23.12 Posted in today's words by

Lonnie Monka resides in Jerusalem, loves to read and write, and relentlessly ponders life. To Some DegreeBy Lonnie Monka My mind is not the ocean,whose depths are more difficult to reachthan the moon– the ocean is not clouds,though, to some degree, we can see themas the same water– clouds are my mindpulled in many directions, […]


13

08.23.12 Posted in words to linger on by

Maureen Donatelli’s most recent poem to appear here was Woeful Are the Clumsy Who Chase Inspiration (November 2011). 13By Maureen Donatelli And my world lurched, a fractured mess, all grey.Such an easy falling off: cop-out grey, lax grey, depression grey, dead grey. For a pained, shy girl, another mistaken notion–to find othersstuck in the same new mess; […]


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