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Fugitive Pigments
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2013
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Flour, Water, Salt
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2016
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Embers on the Stairs
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2014
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What's Left Over
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2022
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No Longer at this Address
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Good Works Review 2020
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Good Works Review 2017
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Ruth Bavetta: Selected Poems
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Good Works Review 2018
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Good Works Review 2019
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"I spent more time in and out of hospitals this past year than I have in decades — a week as the patient and then many months as a sister of the patient. My personal adventures were a little scary but mostly diagnostic, without much pain involved a..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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My poem, The Moon Illusion, is now up on As it Ought To Be. This poem began many years ago, and then lay fallow in my unfinished poems file. Recently
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What I loved most about this was how its wash of scenes, characters, sounds, and sights captured the chaos that is Rome. It was eons ago when I was there, but this is how I saw it. Almost too much to handle all at once—the beauty, the filth, the foun ...more | |
"I used to write Haiku. I began writing Haiku when it seemed impossible that I’d ever write again. An exercise. Write something. Anything. Just write. Three lines. Seventeen syllables.I wrote at least 1000 of them. I was a fountain of Haiku. Then I..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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This may be my last Elizabeth Bowen. I read her Death of the Heart, some weeks ago. Had high hopes that this would be better. Her writing is lovely. Most of the time. Other times it seems straining too hard to be lovely. Many times I had to backtrack ...more | |
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I was really looking forward to this one, but now I'm only about a third of the way in, and stalled. I would have loved this when I was in my teens and twenties when I was all into Noel Coward. Now I find that my appetitite for this kind of fey, arch ...more | |
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“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”
― Enough Rope
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”
― Enough Rope
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
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This group is for word lovers and has topics both serious (grammatical questions and concerns) and not so serious (word play and word games of all sor ...more
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A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
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To reciprocate the appreciation of different artists and discuss their lives and works.
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Let's talk about poetry books. This group's members read poetry collections, with the goal of reviewing twenty in a year. C'mon. Do it. It's good for ...more
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Just to have a bit more space for uploading photo's For more just visit Art Lovers ...more
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Thanks, Poppy. I'm still hiding out by my lonesome. I'm perfectly able to amuse myself, but anxiety about the future really gets to me. Will you and I live to see the end of this?
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Thank you, Poppy. Which poem are you talking about, though? But if it's here on Goodreads, it's already been published.
xoxo
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I just wanted to mention, in case you haven't noticed, that when it shows how many views a particular thread have, it isn't always consistent. You have posted a few poems, and I have a couple posts that actually have comments from other people but it shows only one view to the thread. By the other comments, we know there has been more than just you or me viewing the thread.
I just wanted to bring that to your attention so you'd know that even if it doesn't "show" the number of views of a thread, your poetry is being seen by more than one person (or however many it says) because it isn't always accurate.
Maybe you already knew that, but I like to comment on your posts and it never shows that I, or anyone else, has even looked at your post!
Thank you for your participation and additions to the group! You're wonderful!
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Best wishes from Majenta
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Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
For Mary Heaney
I. Sunlight
There was a sunlit absence.
The helmeted pump in the yard
heated its iron,
water honeyed
in the slung bucket
and the sun stood
like a griddle cooling
against the wall
of each long afternoon.
So, her hands scuffled
over the bakeboard,
the reddening stove
sent its plaque of heat
against her where she stood
in a floury apron
by the window.
Now she dusts the board
with a goose's wing,
now sits, broad-lapped,
with whitened nails
and measling shins:
here is a space
again, the scone rising
to the tick of two clocks.
And here is love
like a tinsmith's scoop
sunk past its gleam
in the meal-bin.
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My sister is an artist, and I would appreciate your advice on the purchase of a book for her. I noticed that you had quite a long list of art books. Do you have an absolute favorite?
Thanks!