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Some poems following my "brush with death" and one-week hospital stay
April 1, 2023 In modern healing, one seeks a linear path across states of being, from ill-health to recuperation, from pain to its absence, from…
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I got the Jonah's Gourd Vine Blues
Y’all know me. I cry like a baby when I’ve heard a sweet sound. Not the music. I’m talking about the pure sounds of words as they enter and exit an…
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poem of grief in three parts
part 1. Perhaps this will happen every Sunday or thereabout, A detour, like last week, from an already plotted course. I wanted to write a poem today…
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Sonnet writers I hope to include in the African American sonnet anthology
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Sonnet Project Foreword/Intro
Foreword The sonnet as a form was born in early 13th century Sicily at the intersection of the scientific advances of the North Africa Moors and the…
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January 4, 2023 - Shakespeare's Sonnet #2
https://raymmaxx.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/january-4-2023-shakespeares-sonnet-2/Raymond’s Original Poetry Newsletter is a reader-supported publication…
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Happy New Year, poetry friends. Boas entradas to 2023!
https://raymmaxx.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/january-1-2023-psalm-1/Raymond’s Original Poetry Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new…
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Facing the new year: 2023
I was born under the archer, a sign of things to come. Perhaps. I don't put stock in that kind of thing. A good God-fearing woman became my wife…
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