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February 2024

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Poems of the Month

X-Mas

Xmas was not always a time for Joy and Cheer.St. Nick was sad drinking too much German Beer.Hard to get help when they rather play

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Trick or Treat

The only Goules that are doing tricksAre the politicians showing nasty picsMugshots sold and flashed for kicks. Facebook Trolls are called BoogalooTwitter X posts weirdos

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Recycle them Again

When living in a town frozen in timeSongs weren’t made for riots or crimeIt’s a legacy of a much simpler rhyme. Coffee served from an

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To Be or Not (Critique d’art)

“Ghost Writer” declares publishment. Without a Shakespearean punishmentOr an ulterior underlining torment.Only a satirical simple letterNo difficult iambic pentameter.English poetry is always stiff & properComplexity

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Poem of the Month

The Train At birth we boarded the train and met our parents, and we believe they will always travel by our side. As time goes

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Poems of the Month

Perhaps the World Ends Here The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.The gifts of earth are brought

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Poems of the Month

MY FIRST GARDEN by Lisa Fox A sense of PlaceOf coming home to the Heart of the matterThis is where it all starts; to mend…

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Poems of the Month

Steeple Chase by Elizabeth Brunazzi Young Buddha escaping the sleeping castle, your beautiful young wife, your infant son, your horse’s hooves velveted, silent over the

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Fear

It is said that before entering the seaa river trembles with fear.She looks back at the path she has traveled,from the peaks of the mountains,the

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Poet Elizabeth Weber

Elizabeth Weber has published three collections of poetry, Small Mercies, The Burning House, and Porthole Views: Watercolors and Poems (a collaboration with artist Hazel Stoeckeler).

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