For weeks, I've piled unopened mail in stacks on my porch table.
I can't bear to make room for it all in my fragile world.

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Joyce Lazarus

night fall--
the last drop of sunlight
caught in a puddle

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Vibeke Laier

Moonlight nestles on
your side of the bed.
Spotlight on an empty stage.

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Sue Blott

Married Compromises

Strange little pencils
Creeping through our house:
Lurking behind the computer,
On the microwave,
In that basket, under the bed.
What have you done to all the pens?

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Jennifer Landry

Knobs of sparrows
turn on snowy-branched lilacs—
fine-tune dawn’s chorus.

*

Sue Blott

Fan-shaped aspen leaves clatter like wind chimes in the gust before the storm.

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Kathleen Brewin Lewis

field

field of weeds
light green, white tips
waving, bouncing
soft white lace
regal but forlorn
cold driving rain
empty field alone

*

Lyn C. A. Gardner

Whistle Call

Whistle call of a persistent flicker
punctuates the morning meditation.

*

David Fraser

Going to sleep

Night is longer
Chill in the morning air
A leaf falls

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Polaris John

A Blackbird Sings

I got behind!

Normal service (daily small stones) will resume tomorrow.

In the mean time read this blog and do invite a few friends to our Mindful Writing Day on Facebook if you haven't already.

And have you seen our beautiful new book, A Blackbird Sings?

Thanks for your support, all.

dappled clouds
float above a green sea –
hydrangeas bloom

*

Craig W. Steele

Sunday's Song
puccini’s tosca
baked ziti and chianti
grandpapa nods off

*

Sandy Patton

Sunday Morning

There he was
the preacher,
dressed in the black smoke
of mufflers,
the clear blue empty sky,
and the red hands that sunk
to the bottom of the ocean.

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Joshua Berida
Random Blurbs

What a deep, vibrant green the lilac leaves display
After a shower passes through.

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Marian Veverka

Skinny winter birch shadows
fall across crisp snow—
nature’s barcode.

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Sue Blott

morning splash -
a single duckling
longing for company

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Vibeke Laier

huge wellspring . . .
the greenness of algae
on the fort

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Ramesh Anand

A long-legged weaver
whose orb luffs in a dawn breeze
slowly wraps her lunch.

*

M. Flynn Ragland

broken sprinkler
gurgling water
filling the gutter

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Stephen Jarrell Williams

OCTOBER

Wind tosses a pinch
of black birds across clear blue
seasoning the sky

*

Claire Zoghb
SmallHouseBreathing

(& this confidence didn't springsummerwinter out of the big bang or that void next to the orange moon, veiled & dreaming behind our rooftops last night. no. first, there was a flood – )

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Camille Thigpen

the empty sound
after the rain stops
puddles
asleep now
after their long downward journey

*

James Newton

Where am I?

“Yes dear
I’m out here
on the porch listening
to the early
morning crickets.”

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Michael Estabrook

The gravestone marks the dates of my husband's late wife
There is a space for his dates when he leaves me and returns to her.

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Joyce Lazarus

Bonsai Artist

He prunes leaves from old memories.
Reworks them with bits of wire
into shapes he can recognize.

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Richard Peabody

Snowstorm

The wind wraps
Around the house,
Like an over-sized parka
Held tight at the neck
By cold hands
To keep the hood from falling
Down.

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Jennifer Landry

Devil in the Details

noontime downpour
my umbrella dry at home
devil in the details

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Armando H. Corbelle