Category: Chewers & Masticadores
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“Joy Comes in the Morning” is up on Chewers!
Thank you, Editor Nolcha Fox, for publishing this collaboration with you and Melissa Lemay! Joy Comes in the MorningMy car wouldn’t start.I pushed it off a cliff and watchedthe luminous sunrise.Sunrise paid two bird tweets for my junker carand donated it to Butterflies Anonymous… You can read the rest of…
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”Sonnet to Grief” is up on Chewers!
Sonnet to GriefIn Memory of LindaYou’re a flamingo stretching its wings to the rising sunA hummingbird gathering dew drops from my tearsand dashing about, like bees do from stamen to stamenYou’re the winter wind that left her burning lungsand the icy pond where she rests to extinguish a fireravaging in…
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A Busy Time!
I am so grateful for some recent publications. Lothlorien Poetry Journal published three poems, which happen to be from my book, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir. Mother’s Light”, “Bearing the World,” and “Ode to the Embryo that My T-Shaped Uterus Miscarried”. Thank you, Editor Strider Marcus Jones! https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/search?q=Three+Poems+by+Barbara+Leonhard Chewers by…
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“You’re the Cream in My Cadaver” is up on Chewers!
Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for publishing this Rengay poem by the Rengay Ladies!!
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I have a poem up on Chewers!
Thank you, Juan re Crivello, for publishing my poem, “Sleep Sit”! ”Sleep sit” means “to rest from labor”. In this poem, I empathize with those whose lives are devoted to farming and working the land. @BarbaraLeonhar4 Amazon Best-Selling Author, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF-Experiments in Fiction, 2022); Pushcart Nominee Facebook: Barbara Harris…
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“Woman” by Barbara Leonhard is up on Chewers & Masticadores!!
Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for publishing this poem from Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir! As much as I knew about my mother, she was also a mystery to me. I wish I knew more about her life routines. Although I knew the highs and lows, I never asked enough questions…
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Poem Up on Chewers & Masticadores
Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for publishing my poem “Goosebumps” on Chewers! Dear readers, I invite you to continue to Chewers and read the poem. @BarbaraLeonhar4 Amazon Best-Selling Author, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF-Experiments in Fiction, 2022); Pushcart Nominee Facebook: Barbara Harris Leonhard /barbara.leonhard; Instagram: @meelosmom123
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“Waiting” by Barbara Leonhard
Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for publishing my Haiku series on “Waiting” on Chewers! The vast silencebefore a poememerges The anticipationof the turn of colorson the trees The quivering stillnessof one leafclinging The slow descentof … “Waiting” by Barbara Leonhard Amazon Best-Selling Author, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF-Experiments in Fiction, 2022); Pushcart…
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“Rocks” by Barbara Leonhard and Nolcha Fox
Originally posted on Chewers by Masticadores: Photo by Peter Du00f6pper on Pexels.com I’m a rock in an inner tube. You’re a rock skipping the water. We started with enthusiasm, with no idea of where we might end up. We’re both in danger of sinking. The danger could be a blessing.…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 