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Here, Heroes (For Madison, WI protesters)

Here in Madison, we are fighting for unions and for fairness – PEACEFULLY.  Don’t believe the FOX BS.  There have been no laws broken, except by the Governor and the Legislature.  Please read and...

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New To This Church (Easter 2011)

Written this morning. I was so bummed about being confined to bed and missing Easter services, and this was my spiritual exercise for the day… Big day for Christians, but every day should be a day to...

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Day 29 BLAST of poems

OK, I had a HUGE blast of energy after the sun came out, my cough abated, my lungs cleared, and I rode a bike for the first time in 7 years! THREE, count ‘em, THREE poems today, so scroll all the way...

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Sunday Prompts: “Praise” and “Televangelists are Full of Crap”

With The Sunday Whirl, wordler-in-chief Brenda posed the words in bold – a baker’s dozen.  Also, Sunday Scribblings wanted us to write on the word “Captivate.”  These are both Sunday-based poems, the...

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Sure To Cause Controversy…

I missed church this week because I was down with the flu. So it’s only right that, I should post a revised version of a religious “food-for-thought” poem I wrote long ago.. Whether you agree or...

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Three Hymns (Naming Constellations)

The amazing Joseph Harker of Naming Constellations asked for a personal hymn (or hymns), starting with something we have never heard a hymn written about… it’s a long prompt, so check it out HERE....

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Pride and Pettiness (and the Gospel of Matthew)

Pride and Pettiness (and the Gospel of Matthew) There are in this world people who gossip and believe not in consequences Care not of feelings Worry not of redemption I feel sorry for them Living...

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Let Your Heart Take the Reins

Let Your Heart Take the Reins In Biblical times, the “heart” was actually one’s gut. To “know in one’s heart” was to feel in the region of the solar plexus the nexus of thought and emotion, an ocean of...

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In Step With Jesus (my 666th post!)

TO ALL: Whatever your faith, I invite you to read this. You may follow a different path, but it’s really all about living in love. In Step With Jesus (For Bob Gwynne and Monica Wahlberg, with love and...

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Summer Treasures Remembered

Summer Treasures Remembered Silence is for remembrance, thoughts of her childhood. Summers… The dappled pony on Aunt Beth’s farm, riding at a canter back to the house. Shucking corn, peeling skin from...

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Sofia (anaphoric poem for a young soul)

Sofia (anaphoric poem for a young soul) Sofia’s sisters will write their symphonies for the world in their world Sofia’s song lies within, beautiful, sonorous, hard to explain, yet unfailingly lovely…...

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ThanksGIVing?

The weasly guy from “Mad Men” and Demi Moore in drag?! Pass the cranberry sauce! ThanksGIVing? Here’s to my Mayflower descendants who enslaved indigenous people. Here’s to Wrong-Way Columbus, who...

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