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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…
Jun 14, 2023
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March 2023
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…
Mar 25, 2023
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February 2023
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…
Feb 17, 2023
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January 2023
Sonnet writers I hope to include in the African American sonnet anthology
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Jan 24, 2023
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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…
Jan 24, 2023
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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…
Jan 4, 2023
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Happy New Year, poetry friends. Boas entradas to 2023!
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Jan 1, 2023
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Happy New Year, poetry friends. Boas entradas to 2023!
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December 2022
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…
Dec 25, 2022
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November 2022
After James Agee's "Let us now praise famous men . . ."
“Let us now praise famous men.” I know. The book’s already been wrote. Here is a poem, almost a sonnet no less — to tell you what’s really going on…
Nov 29, 2022
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October 2022
Just another Saturday night sonnet
I live in DC and had no knowledge of Ari Lennox. She from DC? Sounds too much like Erykah Badu for my tastes. There’s only one Badu! Good news, though…
Oct 17, 2022
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October 8, 2022
Poetry must be political . . .
Oct 8, 2022
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October 8, 2022
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A Sonnet crown - Trombones
After James Weldon Johnson
Oct 3, 2022
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A Sonnet crown - Trombones
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