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Robbin is a retired landscape architect.

  July 2022     21 hours ago

Submitted Poems 13 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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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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added 1 month ago
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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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added 1 year ago
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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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added 1 year ago
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Farewell to The Skipper

The sloop was ready, buoyant
quietly appointed into the familiar cove of a salty life
contained like a pearl
luminous, glowing
waiting for its purpose to be cracked open.
Decks scrubbed
fenders pulled up
hatch opened
sails unfurled and...

by Robbin T. Hartridge

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added 1 year ago
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