POETRY

Multitasking

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This came to me while listening to an online health summit and reading an ebook at the same time...how can you possibly get anything out of either doing both at the same time? I often listen to summits while doing other stuff online and wonder how much of that info is actually absorbed. It would be nice to at least try to do one thing at a time and really be in the moment and enjoy whatever it is I am doing rather than all this multitasking that most seem to do these days...a lot less stressful too. I am gonna attempt it and see what happens. It won't be easy. Old habits die hard... #NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth #PoemADay #April2021 #Day20

Censorship

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just some food for thought today...#NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth #PoemADay #April2021 #Day19

Do You

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I was looking through Writers.com poetry prompts for this month and came across writing a poem about change so this is my take on that prompt... #NationalPoetryMonth, #NaPoMo, #PoemADay, #April2021, #Day18

I for one am not particularly crazy about change. I like to feel comfortable in familiar surroundings...but life is all about change...things change everyday...just gotta go with the flow you know...the only thing constant in life is change...I know I wrote a poem about that once...ha ha

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Partly Cloudy

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It's only 7 AM so not too light outside yet when I wrote this...it usually seems brighter later in the day even on partly cloudy days the sun manages to peek out... #NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth #PoemADay #April2021 #Day14

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I REALLY MISS THE STARS AT NIGHT

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I was listening to a new instrumental I did last night called Heavenly and it inspired this poem for day 13. I really miss the stars at night! You can listen to it on YouTube and read the poem along with it to enjoy the full sense of it... https://youtu.be/zJzsHhx-w1Y

The most magnificent display of stars I ever saw was in a field in Little Rock Arkansas back in the 80s. I flew to Dallas,Texas to see one of my best friend's college and join her on her road trip home back to Chicago. We stayed with her sister a few days in Little Rock and that is where the magnificent stars were. It was pitch black at night there you needed a flashlight to walk around and see. We laid down in a field and looked up at the stars. They were huge and you could see them all...felt like you could reach up and touch them so close. We had a constellations book with us and were trying to find all the different constellations cuz they were all in full view...that night a huge orange harvest moon rose up from the road too. It was amazing and incredible. I am glad to have those memories and be able to picture it. I used to be able to see the stars in Chicago too. They were farther away but I could see lots of them. I knew the big dipper and little dipper so saw those every night but didn't know lots of the other constellations. Could see a lot of stars back then. Why did they have to change the lighting? Now I can only see the  moon and occasionally a nearby planet or two when they are visible at certain times of the year that look like stars...I should be greatful I can still see the moon I guess but I really miss the stars. They need to change the lights back to the way they were when we could see the stars cuz I miss them very much. #NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth #PoemADay #Day13 #April2021

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Sunshine

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#NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth #PoemADay #April2021 #day4 It's always nice to see the sunshine so it inspired my short poem for day four. Trying to distract myself from the fact my husband died on this date 7 years ago...hard to believe how fast time flies...sunshine is a great distraction...always lifts my mood. Happy Easter!

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Poetry Tip

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Wrote this little poem in response to a question on twitter about poetry rhyme...it's a cute little ditty and good advice so thought i would share it here...

Poetry

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I was watching something on TV and someone mentioned there weren't too many poets and I wondered if that were true or not...so wrote this thinking basically if I can do it anyone can...maybe different things are easy to different people...what do you think? Are we in the minority?

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