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Betrayed – Barbara Leonhard
Thank you, FREE VERSE REVOLUTION! (UPDATE: This poem is archived – the link no longer works – because FREE VERSE REVOLUTION has a new literary magazine. If you wish to access this link, let me know.) Image: The fake 100-dollar bill printed by the United States of Halloween. I found…
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PR for Poets & How Do I Promote My Books with Chronic Illness and a Disability? – guest blog post by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Trish Hopkinson My new book from Two Sylvias Press, PR for Poets, is a guide for beginning to mid-career poets to learn how to build an audience and promote their books! Think of it as a guide to getting read. People have asked me specifically about how do I, as…
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Sunday Best: phantom
My poem “Dark Apostle” ranked top of three best chosen for this past week’s challenge, Phantom. My sister, Martha Harris, created the digital image, “The Devil’s in the Details”. Thank you FREE VERSE REVOLUTION! (UPDATE: This poem is archived – the link no longer works – because FREE VERSE REVOLUTION…
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New Publication: My Hair Eats Everything
I’m delighted Spillwords Press published one of my poems. My Hair Eats Everything My Hair Eats Everything Silver pelage. Static cling Velcro mouth gulping my life. My hair, a pantry of my days. Famished patron of my past. It shows in my sheen, the shine Of a clean plate.…
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TP Haiku and Sunday Chat with Steve 3/15/20, the one where I thank old friends of the Cafe
Originally posted on Go Dog Go Café: White square rarity What else can serve your purpose? No one wants to know ~ Em C. 3.14.20 TP Haiku Go Dog Go Cafe friends, baristas and guests… some of you may recall that the idea of an Internet coffee shop for writers…
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Broken Womb, Shattered Soul: Living with Infertility (part 1)
Phoebe, MD:Medicine + Poetry Has just published the first part of an article I wrote on my infertility caused by Diethylstilbestrol, or DES. Although this drug is no longer prescribed to pregnant women to prevent miscarriages, it has been shown that this drug affected not only daughters and sons born…
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Three Flakes on the Front Door by Barbara Leonhard (MY FRONT DOOR Series)
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press: Three Flakes on the Front Door by Barbara Leonhard Front doors, gateways to stories held in the arms of lovers. Brides and babies travel over thresholds that welcome spring’s warm breeze, summer’s first bees, autumn’s tumbling leaves, winter’s freeze for child play in drifts…
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Dark Apostle
Rising shadows of flames, dressed in deep void, I arrive to burn the bramble of your complacent life. You hide inside this clay façade, live for self in idle pleasure, slumber in this carcass of addiction and desire. I hold you down as you writhe in agony, thrive on…
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Sink into Your Knowing
stone skipping over stream sinks into deep mysteries magical inner sight instincts intuition magnificent sun fire blazing wisdom center earth rising in shimmering waves “Sink into Your Knowing”, revised an old post, 05/08/2020 ©Barbara Harris Leonhard@extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog Image “Center Earth Rising”: ©Martha Harris, Martha’s Artistic Flarings, artisticflarings.blog
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Sunday Best: saplings
FREE VERSE REVOLUTION chose my poem “A Rocky Start” as one of the top three for the weekly challenge Saplings. (UPDATE: This poem is archived – the link no longer works – because FREE VERSE REVOLUTION has a new literary magazine. If you wish to access this link, let me…
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