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Six Word Story (66)

Is it the flower, or the old car that is sad?
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Egg Salad

A crunch to spoil theCreamy texture I spread thick.Celery, too much. ©2022 Mary Grace van der Kroef
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Disconnect/Mental Rhythm Magazine

A literary magazine dedicated to showcasing the rhythms of mental health in individuals around the globe. – Mental Rhythm Website – They have featured my poem Disconnect in their first issue. I invite you all to read it along with the many other great works included. It’s always a blessing to have a piece chosen…
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Six Word Story (65)

Have you ever pulled a plant out of those flimsy plastic pots they start them in at greenhouses and garden departments? It always scares me when I do.
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Miller Farm Fairy

Her skirts are bound with borrowed twine, Its folds of corn-leaf silk. Braided reeds with clover, wheat, Above a face as sweet as milk.
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Red Stuff by Mike Bonikowski

By: Mike Bonikowsky Cover art by: Sarah Christolini Published by: Solum Press There is not a single poem in Mike Bonikowsky’s ‘Red Stuff’ that I did not love. Every word is a word of lament, praise, worship, connection, question, awe of and too God. “Sing to the Lord, all ye mid-restoration” – From Invocation –…
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Six Word Story (64)

Campfires are one of my favorite things. As a little girl, I loved to char the end of a stick in the fire, and use it to write.
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Washed Out

I found this poem from 2008 hiding in my files. It was written before I considered myself a writer, and before I ever dreamed of being a poet. I thought it would be fun to share it with all of you. In fields of greyand washed out rose,Beneath a skyin eternal repose, Opposite a Rainbow,its…
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Quip Corner with Ada

I recently enjoyed having a conversation with Ada from Quip Corner, about my book ‘The Branch That I Am.’ I enjoyed our conversation and I hope you do as well! Ada is the author of the 101 QUIPS AND QUOTES BOOK COLLECTION. for the last 2 years she has used her YouTube channel Quips Corner…
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Six Word Story (63)

In the lonely places, in the in between, there is a light that stands witness.
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