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• Happy New Year
  on Jan 5, 2016 in haiku haiku recollections of 2015 poetry as review of one's life writer's block and blogging
  The separation from my blog since my last post in October 2015 is the longest I've had since creating Writerquake. Focus has been a main issue. I absolutely hate that, and hope to reign myself in, settle down here more often. I have missed writing, a...
• Sobriety: 30 years
  on Oct 15, 2015 in Ich komme aus meinen Schwingen heim Rainier Rilke poetry sobriety sobriety anniversary
  Stillness by Michael SprouseIch komme aus meinen Schwingen heim -by Rainier Maria RilkeI come home from the soaring in which I lost myself.I was song, and the refrain which is Godis still roaring in my ears.Now I am stilland plain:no more words.To th...
• Mag 284 — Sunset Pantoum
  on Sep 12, 2015 in Mag 284 Magpie Tales Pantoum poetic form The Mag wanderlust writing prompt
  I want to wander there nowIn the land split by the hillsWhere sunset colors the valleyAnd gloaming shades the mounds In the land split by the hillsDays live long in the mossy fieldsAnd gloaming shades the moundsAs night comes in layers of beautyDays...
• Mag 278 — goodbye
  on Jul 15, 2015 in goodbye Mag 278 muse poetry as review of one's life The Mag writing prompt
  So as to not disturb the silence from which this poem came I will whisper goodbye.No goodbyes to the space that will alwayshold us but goodbye to the vastness of that space. No goodbyes to your face that is there for friends in the good book of these...
• Pause for Reflection
  on Jul 7, 2015 in Flash 55 MindLoveMisery's Menagerie Photo Challenge poetry as review of one's life sobriety
  The image she kept of herself: sophisticatedelegance, hair swept in perfumed grace, nails groomed pink clinking against the drink glass,ice winking from clear blue eyes. Who she was: the drunk in dirty overalls,flirty beauty long gone, slurring stori...
• Mag 270 — imprint
  on May 19, 2015 in Bonbon death of pet Mag 270 Magpie Tales poetry as review of one's life The Mag writing prompt
  Today, five months after your death, two young deer surprised me in the yard at dawn. One trotted rhythmicallyacross the lawn, but the other stood stoically feet away and we regarded one another with quiet understanding.The day held sunshine that fil...
• Mag 265 — I am the sea
  on Apr 13, 2015 in Magpie Tales one with the sea poetry as review of one's life The Mag writing prompt
  This is me. I am the sea.I am pale as foam and blue, drenched by a riverof tears flowing into me — from me waves of changeare blowing, yetI am still in the night, cradling my host of lovedones of the deep. We sleep with the moon in reflective trust...
• Mag 262 — Green God
  on Mar 23, 2015 in a tree speaks to me ancient tree Mag 262 Magpie Tales old growth forest The Mag writing prompt
  You see, I see youyou mossy green god and god how I love you,you with trunks to spareand that wild white eyebeneath your unicorn hornYou see me ignoring yourcomical grimace as I comenear to whisper into yourelfin ear god how I love youYou raise your...
• When
  on Mar 10, 2015 in changing course choosing happiness poetry as review of one's life
  When when was a word trailing off into spaceand change was avoided,  to keep an unholy peace,I kept pace with thefullness of nothing.Then then became a swordto die upon or to swallowand in my marrow I knewthat when is now and always had been. So...
• Flash 55 — Boon's
  on Feb 2, 2015 in Boon's Treasury favorite places Flash 55 Flash Fiction 55 power of place what was old is new again
    There is power of place here,Solid as mortared brick -Ethereal as finespun memories.I sip Earl Grey teaOn a waning winter day,Remembering dark ale drunkIn the sunshine of youth at That table, and that one by the Pot-bellied stove.Decades slipp...

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