Category: Poem
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Amazing Anthology on Dreams Available Now!
I’m delighted to say I have three poems in this new anthology edited by Robbie Cheadle and Colleen M. Chesebro. The theme this year is dreams. My poems follow. The link to order the anthology is provided in this reblog and my post below. 1.Rescued (A Tanka Puente)Night dreams rupture…
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“Payne” Keeps Showing Up for Tea!
“Payne Comes for Tea” is up on Chewers by Masticadores. Thank you so much, Nolcha Fox, for this collaboration. As you said, you and I are a payne! 🤣 We could not have written our poems without Payne hanging around so much. “Payne Comes for Tea” is one of the…
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A Tiny Poem up on Little Chews
Thank you, Editor Nolcha Fox, for publishing “Orange Sun” on Little Chews. I wrote “Orange Sun” during an online workshop offered by Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Orange SunHalf-consumed by smoky skiesIt slips slowly into the billowing cloudsA life half-spentA life that wants to sleep forever.©Barbara Leonhard
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“Bringing Home the Bacon” by the Rengay Gals
Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and I are back at it! We hope you enjoy our new Rengay and then click on the purchase link to the Kindle book for Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025). Paperback format is also available. Bringing Home the BaconPlease buy our bookIt’ll…
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Children’s Poems Up on Little Chews!
I’m delighted Nolcha Fox published my children’s poems for the Poetry Reading Project at a school for orphans in Kenya. I shared the first poem in my recent post on my blog. Please follow this link to see the entire post on Little Chews, which Nolcha Fox edits on LatinosUSA.…
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“You Beautiful Equation” up on Chewers by Masticadores
“You Beautiful Equation” was published today on Chewers by Masticadores. I am grateful to editor Nolcha Fox for providing poets and writers a beautiful home for their work. The poem is so short that you can read it in its entirety on the link below. However, give Chewers some traffic…
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Five Haiku about Tranquility up on FEED THE HOLY
The haiku I featured on FEED THE HOLY today first appeared in Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku (edited by Gabriela Marie Milton). You can read the haiku by following this link. While you’re there, take a look at some other posts. I’m thrilled that FEED THE HOLY has attracted so…
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Some of My Poems Are Published in Chinese by Yongbo Ma
Yongbo Ma published his Chinese translations of three of my poems in a magazine, “Dipper International Poetry Forum,” Issue 4, ISSN 1321-3622. Unfortunately, I do not have a link. Here are my poems along with Yongbo’s translations. A Broken Heart A broken heartThe construct of love breachedRivets on the bridge…
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“Picasso Dreams Broken Glass” up on LatinosUSA
Thank you, Juan are Crivello, for publishing “Picasso Dreams Broken Glass” on Latinos USA today. Here is the beginning of the poem. Picasso Dreams Broken GlassIn response to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol (2021) Thrust down with a fumbling handin the light of the slumberous mooncrashing into the crater…
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“Days Like Water” by Cindy Georgakas and Me
How fun! Cindy Georgakas invited me to collaborate on a poem. My verses are in italics, and hers are the rest. Enjoy! Days Like Water Days like water slip through my fingers.I try to catch it, but it’s a fruitless endeavor. Somedays I land in a puddle, swimming like a fish…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 