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I Met My Muse When I Was Two
Sunday Scribblings asked for thoughts about each poet’s muse. I believe I was one of the lucky ones; I also believe this may account for my poor grades in school! No blame at all, only gratitude for...
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Tightwire (3WW, Sun Scribs)
Catching the last breath of Sunday Scribblings, laid low with flu that comes and goes. If I hear, “it’s going around” one more time, I’ll… cough unproductively! Sunday Scribblings asked for a sensation...
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Life is Good When…
Life is Good When… Life is good when children smile, their bellies full. Life is good when girls play rough-and-tumble after their tea party. When boys are allowed to cry without ridicule… Life is good...
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Dissonance: The Races, We Run
WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART ———————————– Two different views of the same woman – one from across the room, one within. A true story, based on experiences with a multiracial social justice...
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TWOFER: Gumm and Gummer
I’ve changed my blog settings so now, all comments are approved. The backlog was immense and guilt was clouding my creativity. (I’m Black Irish, so that kind of guilt is quite weighty!) I will attempt...
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Wish Upon a Star
Wish Upon a Star Remember being a kid and wishing on a star? I wish I can get a kitten. I wish my sister wasn’t so mean. I wish Mike in 7th period English liked me. I wish my parents would stop...
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Summertime 60s
Summertime 60s Back in the 60s Not the Beatles 60s and before Carnaby Street and Twiggy and Verushka The Roger Miller 60s Peter, Paul, and Mary Nat “King” Cole Peggy Lee still made the charts Radio was...
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Oh, the Horror! (Marshmallow Peeps)
Oh, the Horror! Bane of childhood Easter basket Gumptious lather clodded by machine into alien-colored, noxious turds Unnatural, they were, and poisonously sugar-laced Pillowstuff spongy Look if you...
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Bedside Manner (Imaginary Garden With Real Toads)
Bedside Manners Sometimes in the fever of my dreams Mom is alive but dying… Here she is, going again… an alternate version conjured in my vulnerable, variable mind DAD has come to pay his respects to...
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Where I’m Comin’ From
Where I’m Comin’ From Look back at the burbs White enclave; promise of the GI Bill Manicured lawns, manacled wives who drank a dram during the drudgery of The Soap Trinity (Laundry, Dishes, The Edge of...
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