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Poetry Corner: Regina Sparrow “Parents Be Nice”

September 7, 2018 by Editor Leave a Comment

This is dedicated to all the kids whose caregivers are angry, addicted, crazy, ill, stressed-out, checked-out, abusive, and shrill. You keep on seeking. You can love you. I know you can make it because I did it too. You may not know me, we’ve never met, but we love you out here, please don’t forget. […]

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Poetry Corner: D.L. Lang “The Woodpecker’s Beat”

September 7, 2018 by D.L. Lang Leave a Comment

It is the song of the bird, the kiss of the breeze, the canopy of trees that sets my mind at ease. It is the roar of the ocean, the rustling of the leaves, the hug of solitude gives me all I need. It is the glow of the fireflies, the dust dancing in the […]

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Letters: Cannabis and gratitude

September 5, 2018 by Editor 5 Comments

Regulating cannabis is working The results of a recent state-commissioned California Healthy Kids Survey concluded that fewer teens are consuming cannabis post-legalization. Students told surveyors cannabis is harder to get now than it was a few years ago. This is exactly in line with what proponents of regulated cannabis believed would happen if the dark […]

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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: September

September 2, 2018 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

Dressed for summer as I was, I watched a bank of trees because Their first few leaves, were letting go, a subtle hint to let me know The wind let in a touch of chill; as it gave way to winters will Harvest’s bounty reaping toil, the sweat of spring pulled from the soil The […]

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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme & Reason”: To the Wanderers (And their staff :^)

August 26, 2018 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

Nomadic tribes a ’wander Playing notes to make a living Getting paid by local folks Who value what they’re giving No thunderstorms or holidays Will keep them from their playing No one night stand can stop them And convince them that they’re staying So here’s to all the minstrels As they’re living out their fate […]

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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: My Daydream

August 19, 2018 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

I feel a daydream coming on, my mind is free to wander It’s just my way of killing time, and lets me think and ponder I’m not constrained by Earthly bonds, or by geography Each dream’s unique and lets me peek, in my psychology In some I rule the whole wide world, in others I’m […]

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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: My Cure

August 12, 2018 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

Imagine if you will this life, I live from day to day I write for me, I write for you, I write for love not pay No worries, it’s no cross to bear, it’s just the way I act Believe me when I tell you; I can’t stop and that’s a fact I guess when […]

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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: When Nothing Else Will Do

August 5, 2018 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

Not pizza pies or popcorn, pasta, grapes or ham and cheese Not shrimp or fish in chafing dish, or Yorkshire pudding please I’ll pass on ice-cream sundaes, I don’t need those sprouts and such Don’t make a hero sandwich, for my open hand to clutch Keep your warm plum pudding, Coney Dogs; leave me alone […]

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Poetry Corner: James Garrett “How?”

August 3, 2018 by James M. Garrett Leave a Comment

How, in God’s infinite wisdom, Did One get to be 75 years old? To sit and reflect, Hear stories his voice told. Once only the fall, Saved his life. Made him come back, Blessed him with a wife. That was all it took, That instant in time. Earth pulled him down, In a far distant […]

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Poetry Corner: Johanna Ely “Canada Geese”

August 3, 2018 by Johanna Ely Leave a Comment

I hear the end of summer in their wild honking, in the restless language of their flight. How on this early morning in late July, I have been expecting them. I visualize them landing noisily, and resting in the field of the old elementary school behind my house- at least thirty of them pecking at […]

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