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Robbin is a retired landscape architect.

  July 2022     20 days ago

Submitted Poems 14 total

Afternoon Glow

It's the magic hour
when the day yawns wide
after a nap between long shadows.
A tide of translucent orange
seeps out from under the sculpture studio
while it waits for imagination to stir.

If you aren't paying attention
you will miss it,
...

by Robbin Hartridge

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Right or Left

When during the long passage
across the sea of life
do we bear right or do we bear left?
How do we know for sure
what is the best way to go?

Each one of us and no one person spared,
has an inimitable part to play for Shakespeare himself.
...

by Robbin T. Hartridge

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added 29 days ago
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Six-Point Visitation

In no hurry
a cloven step with purpose,
then another, delicately
and with precision
through quiet dignity and noble grace
to stop time in its tracks,
prompted me to put down my work.

Through no fear or hesitation,
a heightened presence...

by Robbin T. Hartridge

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The Wind Beneath Our Wings

I first met that Irish monk years ago on the sidewalk.
I was alone, hesitant, looking for belonging
It was just the two of us standing there before Mass
when I found myself disappearing into the vast recesses

  of his robe
lost in the most...

by Robbin T. Hartridge

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Granting Permission

Last Wednesday night a noble, epic,

  and wonderfully eccentric force left us.

  She was our Grace.

I remember her as a fixture in the chapel,

  always there, like a pillar,

  holding out a light for us.
Like a candle set there to...

by Robbin T. Hartridge

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