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SharePoetry by Julie Waters & Eliyrea Serena Kapuler
Feature Poet ~ Ann Staley
ShareAnn Staley has been teaching and writing for the last four decades. She began as a letter writer, following her mother’s example, and she began as a teacher the summer after 2nd grade when she assembled her dolls and stuffed … Continue reading
Sonnet in Twelve Lines
ShareThe river is at flood stage, the east bank giving-way to the golf course and pasture land. The river walk and bike path is inaccessible, that spot where I phoned my friend in the Central Time Zone, drowned like our … Continue reading
Stone Harbor, 1948
ShareMy hair is dark and wet. I have been in and out of the warm Atlantic water, and now shivering from sun-burn and dehydration. I am wrapped in a white, terry-cloth robe, initials monogrammed in red. My stance is a … Continue reading
Sister
ShareI always wanted one. More than a pony or the piano lessons I added to my mother’s shopping list the year I was twelve. I considered becoming one, too: Sister Theresa Ann and was one to an older and younger … Continue reading
Siblings
ShareSiblings ~ for Tom & Jed That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. E.D. After our mothers and fathers disappear to the other side of life’s veil, our siblings become primary witnesses to the … Continue reading
Naked
ShareNaked ~Dagene’t Laying naked faced down, Heat crawling up my spine, Sweat hitting the white carpeted ground, Beading in a line. Hair up so high, Tattoos and piercings exposed, In my head rushes the thought Why, As I force myself … Continue reading
Blues Soften
ShareBlues Soften ~Anonymous Creamy blues soften On my tongue A tart bite Hips sway and blues play Honey wine and love An early summer make Music ~ Whispering through pines Calls to me Play me some of The new song … Continue reading
Growing
Share~Anonymous Life is so different than you think It will be growing up You become someone you Would never have imagined Nothing is simple or honest Dreams fade away and become New ones that you’d never have thought Would be … Continue reading
