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  April 2022     5 months ago

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the good thief

The good thief

The day’s light eases itself here
into a comfortable position
suitable for a good dusk,
catches the blackbirds twittering
along the telephone lines
that loop along the dirt road––
a road that knows best
how to scoop the...

– by stanford rose

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added 10 months ago
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Woman in Motion

Woman in Motion

You leave this sign on your door:
If the goddess is not in residence
she is in motion
in her various and unknowable ways.
I who seek her am the witness
in her wake. Yet I know that she––
you––must renew your ways
in the...

– by Stanford Rose

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added 1 year ago
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legs

Legs

Easy to forget how easy it is
to put away our legs,
those loggy bedfellows that haul us

through the shifty terrain of our days.
When I first saw you in your kayak
just pushed off from the shore

serene as a swan gliding
over its...

– by legs

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added 2 years ago
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On submitting my poem I received a notice saying a poem by this title had already been submitted. Wrong! I started to submit this poem at an earlier time including the title "Woman in Motion", but never completed the submission. But later I did complete a second submission with the same title. Again the first attempt was never completed 

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