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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 8 – The Eclipse

the moon’s shadow • in a brief starring role • stole the spotlight Continue reading

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Poetry Postcard Fest 2021 – It’s a wrap!

Got a bonus card today, perhaps in celebration of the September full moon but the Fest feels rather done. I’m not one to be waiting for cards. Yes I’m one of those people who mark your card as arrived when … Continue reading

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(August) Poetry Postcard Festival 2020

So many months at home. So many postcards. So many poems going out in the mailbox and quite a number coming into my mailbox too! Here’s the two groups of cards (two “groups” or “months” worth) that I have received … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day Twenty-Five

She came, needing to buy a replacement for something broken — accidentally, unfortunately, sadly — and then she began to weep, her husband, not dead six days would have known how to fix it how to do all those things … Continue reading

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Maggie and NaNoWriMo Day 28

No not Rod Stewart’s Maggie May but an even older one, set to a new tune. If you like, here’s a live version with an explanation at the beginning. Not too many more words to go… at least not to … Continue reading

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