tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81304535166195764552024-03-05T04:27:36.939-08:00The Poplar Grove MuseThe Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.comBlogger299125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-31366345956350198852015-08-16T13:48:00.000-07:002015-08-16T13:48:08.775-07:00Spirals<div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spirals, no discernible beginning, no apparent ending. I like to go through life turning upward and outward, fast and slow. Each turn a new vantage point, a new perspective to be taken or left behind. The Grouse is the symbol of the spiral in my Native American medicine cards. The dance of life. The macro of the constant motion of our universe. The micro of the Sufi dancers, swirling themselves into altered states.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spirals quest, they seek, like our journey on earth. Their lessons seem limitless to me. I don’t feel boxed in by their form, only bound by my self-imposed restrictions and fears that can stop all movement, cell growth and learning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The freedom of the dance can move me to a place where it’s safe to be still, to listen, to rest and to tap into the pulse of the universe where I feel connected to other spirits on our journey as we walk the spiral of life’s labyrinth together. </span><br />
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Rebekah Spivey for the Poplar Grove Muse</div>
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The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-48593538905571504432015-07-20T21:34:00.001-07:002015-07-20T21:36:06.680-07:00The Next Chapter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To look outward more often.<br />
To be content with being at the beginning.<br />
To recognize containment as an asset.<br />
To strive for upright excellence and remember the ground.<br />
To know transcendance is birthed from support.<br />
To embrace knowing less and feeling more.<br />
To uplift others on the path to their own relevance.<br />
To sense the merit of one drop at a time.<br />
To live where my heart chooses the path of mind.<br />
To become strong through my eyes.<br />
To deliver through my hands.<br />
To remember, "it is easy to take a human apart - <br />
but not so easy to put them together." Re-member.<br />
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Allison <br />
PGMThe Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-10520253391765537682015-07-13T12:53:00.003-07:002015-07-13T18:36:01.994-07:00Redirection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #131313; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one
business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity
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Over time, the workable compromises became unworkable. Even
as I made them, I knew in my head that beneath the seductive sheen of calm and
simplicity the incremental compromises offered—time for art and reading with
the kid(s) and book groups with the interesting moms I would meet, nightly
opportunities to try out the recipes I had been clipping since long before I
had a stove to cook them on, perhaps the discovery of an interest in
homekeeping I had never once experienced, at the very least a reprieve from arranging for work and daycare from a distance while wrapping up the old
job—lurked deep downward currents that could drown soul and self.</div>
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Compromise, compounded and committed against myself again,
and again, and yet again, has left me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stripped
bare, uncertain of myself. As the children I structured my life around extend
the circles they traverse, with me holding an unsteady and often unnecessary
center, I barely breathe some days. I am fortunate that my partner in these
crimes against myself is, in contrast, circling in tighter, sharing his own
loss of self and direction; yet at times I hardly know who he is circling back to, and
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Time to dig in and write my
losses, discover the subjects I know I once had, perhaps even rediscover some
sublimity of my own ideas. In the upcoming Conscious Feminine Leadership Training 2015, I embark on a new adventure in reading, writing, and (re-)discovering self in the company of brave and determined women.<br />
<br />
Mary, for The Poplar Grove Muse </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">must’ve been the driest,
thickest day of July </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">when we dismantled the tipi</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">dust
rested on plants and sitting-logs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">thick
and gray </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">like some hellish frost </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">come to blight our paradise</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">dogs were walking powder puffs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">of earth’s sloughing off</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">95% humidity sent sweaty
rivulets </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">coursing between women’s
breasts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">drew
smooth steady patterns </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">on
kids’ dirty faces</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">paintings on tipi canvas </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">looked faded and dull</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from six years
of pounding weather </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">and six weeks of no rain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">teenaged son shinnied </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">up and up </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">like
some four-legged creature </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">at
home in his jungle</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">tugged each lacing pin from its moorings<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">where canvas was lashed together</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">some slid out just right</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">others took yanking, cussing</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">before they let go</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">one after another, till all were out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">he roared as he grabbed the
top edge</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">of tired, mildewed canvas</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>awakened
it from its comfortable resting place</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">and
with one mighty shove </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">sent it sliding down slick debarked pine poles </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">like a giant skirt </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">slipping slowly, provocatively</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>around the ankles of a mountain of a
woman </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">it landed in folds and heaps </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">on the dry cracked ground</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">someone beat a drum, someone
cried</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">someone<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moaned—I think it was me</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">dogs
and cats ran</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">someone
played a flute</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">someone howled like a wolf</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">strong-shouldered husband and neighbors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">heaved loosely rolled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>tipi canvas </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">to edge of tree-line</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">seventeen poles stood naked
and strong</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">skeletal remains of our Brown
County era</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">they
sprawled in a circle 28 feet wide</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">leaned
into each other at the conical top</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bound together with thick sisal rope</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">thirty feet above hard clay-packed floor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">above plywood platform </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">where beds had held our family </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">close to earth’s steady heartbeat</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">someone played guitar</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">someone hooted—crazy, insane </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">like
barred owls carrying on psychotic </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">conversations
in the dark of the night</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">someone yip, yip, yipped </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">like coyotes on prowl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">daughter and friend arrived </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">full of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>young woman sensuality</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>began
dancing on plywood platform</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">pounding
feet drummed steady rhythm</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">more feet, more drumming</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">more feet dancing, drumming</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">hoot, hoot, hooting</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">kicking up dust</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">sweating, laughing</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">crying out for rain</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">drinking
cheap wine</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">smoking
last year’s harvest</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">stomping, thumping </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">with bare feet, booted feet</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">on hollow wooden floor</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">wild and free</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">caught up in primal celebration</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">the moving of the lodge</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">the feasting of the tribe</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">prayers for rain, rain, rain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">distant thunder, was it? did
you hear it? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">was that lightning? did you
see it? </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">thunder
again—closer</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">we
danced harder, faster</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">drummed, sang </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">drummed, danced</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">rain sprinkled, showered</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">poured from the skies</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">mothers and others carried
drums</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">guitars, babies to nearby
shack—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">door and windows swung wide
open</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">storm-crazed
dancers</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">undaunted
by nature’s pelting</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">perpetuated rain-soaked plywood vibration </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">with unrestrained ecstasy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">we slung off dripping clothes</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">to rhythm of pounding feet</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">everything</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">everything</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">t-shirts, shorts </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">jeans, skirts </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">tossed into one colorful</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">soggy, sloppy heap </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">naked skin like naked tipi poles</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">shining wet, clean, cool</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">thunder boomed</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">dogs barked, babies cried</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">we
drummed our moving-on dance </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">till
slippery plywood threatened to break fragile bones </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">and massive electric bolts </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">too close for comfort</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">shoved us indoors</span></span></div>
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The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-4097797856199760972015-06-23T14:13:00.002-07:002015-06-23T14:13:50.401-07:00I Am Gannet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I Am Gannet<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am gannet, seabird, <o:p></o:p></div>
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soaring with my gray, <o:p></o:p></div>
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white and yellow-feathered body<o:p></o:p></div>
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off the volcanic shore of
Iona. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The sparkling waters <o:p></o:p></div>
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in Martyrs Bay <o:p></o:p></div>
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tempt and tease me<o:p></o:p></div>
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as they race over <o:p></o:p></div>
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their bounty </div>
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hidden deep below the surface.</div>
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I climb skyward high<o:p></o:p></div>
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over the bouncing waves</div>
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as they strive for shore.</div>
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Now. Turn. Spiral.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Beak first, speeding straight
down <o:p></o:p></div>
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wings sleek along my body, <o:p></o:p></div>
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needle-like. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Capture one shiny silver fish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Burst up through the
waves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Slowly and steadily I balance<o:p></o:p></div>
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on top of the water. One
gulp. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fish gone, sustenance begins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">’</span>m being
nourished<o:p></o:p></div>
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rich nutrients coursing through me, <o:p></o:p></div>
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my mind clears, my eyesight sharpens<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rebekah for The Poplar Grove Muse</div>
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<b>When I die, I want to
be cremated</b></div>
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<b>And buried in an urn</b></div>
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what kind</b></div>
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<b>My loved ones should grieve</b></div>
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<b>However they need to </b></div>
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<b>“Beloved by many,</b></div>
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<b>She was a tough old
broad"</b></div>
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<o:p><b>Diana, for the Poplar Grove Muse </b></o:p></div>
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The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-86299033021798629032015-06-01T07:35:00.002-07:002015-06-01T07:36:22.473-07:00More Than Gold<br />
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Today I walked slowly,</span></div>
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small hand in
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and chatted
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who agreed we
MUST have kale for chips<o:p></o:p></div>
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and begged for
honey sticks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Today as we meandered crowded aisles of grains
and greens,<o:p></o:p></div>
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overflowing
crates of yellows and reds,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I watched the
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soon to be
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watched as they
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like a child
they’d raised.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Today as I
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I knew the
extra minutes it was taking to gather our meals,<o:p></o:p></div>
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the extra
minutes it would take to chop and simmer,<o:p></o:p></div>
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the waiting
time for rising and kneading,<o:p></o:p></div>
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would always be
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Today I walked
slowly. <o:p></o:p><br />
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~KGS<br />
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The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-28920346722620475882015-05-24T21:38:00.000-07:002015-05-24T21:44:39.375-07:00Window Seat To Wonder<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s been raining for eight days, maybe more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our morning yoga teacher offered the
meditation:<em> please, notice the cloudiness -
then let it go</em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s good to
remember how much clouds affect the mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And here, maybe more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boulderites
are used to 300 sunny days a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
are eight days into clouds - residents feel worry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The woman next to me in class lives in
Scotland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She shrugs, says, “Everyday is
like this.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another woman adds, “Yes,
but this rain makes us nervous for floods.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rightly so, the Boulder Floods of September 2013 are fresh
in mind for some.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parts of the city are still in
repair, with much evidence of the devastation around the hiking trails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> After two years, s</span>ome pathways remain completely closed
off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> There is evidence of p</span>ost-traumatic environmental
stress. A good reminder: we are so intimate with where we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I left Boulder at the end of August 2013, and feel gratitude for
having been able to land safely home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also lucky to be able to return, each time
I gather something more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traveling,
especially returning to places over consecutive years re-kindles my interest in
psycho-environmentalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How place
shines through, intermingles with person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I would describe today as a Pacific Northwest day, a foggy
San Francisco moment, a non-humid Indiana summer pre-dawn (after evening
storm).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me feel contemplative,
dreamy, like I might want to take a boat trip to a small island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Flatirons, regular ruddy totems, are
obscured in something of a foggy blur. I don’t mind the effect on my mind, as
long as I remember it won’t always be like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It frees my moment up to consider life past
conditions, while enjoying the trip of the time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alas, with no boat at hand, nor waters to travel on...I content
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Allison - PGM</span></div>
The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-27485333640961195462015-05-17T08:07:00.001-07:002015-05-17T08:07:18.776-07:00"Money is a kind of poetry" --Wallace Stevens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This quote was a poetry prompt during National Poetry Writing Month and my first reaction was, noooooo ...... but then I thought, hmmm, IF money WERE a kind of poetry, what would it be? And this is the poem that arrived:<br />
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Light verse loose change<br />jingles in your favorite uncle’s pocket<br />as he tosses quarters for ice cream<br />and pulls a silver dollar <br />out of your ear.<br /><br />Working man’s ballad of company scrip,<br />slow beat heartbreak never get ahead<br />a nickel and a dime and another loaf of bread<br />foreman says work, union says strike<br />babies crying through the night<br /><br />Pieces of eight for a pirate’s shout<br />storm shanties, drinking songs,<br />girls in each port, whalers and <br />sailors and Davy Jones’ deep,<br />weevils, and gunwales, and topsails.<br /><br />A few new bills for a smart new verse,<br />something to impress city slickers,<br />those literary types in New Yawk, <br />up on the latest trends, the clubs,<br />martinis, Broadway bright lights.<br /><br />The odd tip and free coffee at the slam,<br />the chance to step up and speak, say my<br />words, loud, straight, where people hear me<br />all the way to the back, and onto the street<br />where they come from, those words, mine.<br /><br />Plastic for the postmodern,<br />the not quite real for the not<br />quite there, what it means to me<br />and to you and to them, who can say?<br />Words and balances constructed.<br />
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by Mary Pat LynchThe Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-56281245516925159612015-05-04T11:19:00.001-07:002015-05-04T11:34:27.464-07:00April is National Poetry Month<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>National Poetry Month inspired an outpouring of poetry from our community, notably from a group who participated in NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month), composing poems daily using (or not using) prompts, and providing readback lines to one another on a dedicated Facebook page. Great fun!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>Here are two from Glenda, for the Poplar Grove Muse. </i></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>(Assignment: use five words or phrases borrowed from the
poem, “Saying Things” by Marilyn Krysl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My words: cashmere, harpoon, brown sugar, windmill, cosmic dust)</i></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>
</i></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><b><i>Cashmere and
Harpoons</i></b></i></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>
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<br /></div>
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Who wouldn't prefer</div>
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the kiss of cashmere
on skin</div>
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to a harpoon in the
gut?</div>
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Who wouldn't prefer</div>
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a brown sugar morning</div>
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to bitterroot stirred
into the cup?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Ah, but the windmill
of life turns and spins,</div>
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throws cosmic dust
this way and that—</div>
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harpoon below the belt</div>
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when cashmere felt</div>
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like it might last
forever;</div>
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bitterroot in the cup
of joy</div>
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when brown sugar
tasted like heaven.</div>
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<br /></div>
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No need to scream:
Unfair! Unfair!</div>
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What's fair anyway—in
love or war,</div>
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in politics or being
poor?</div>
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There's no
one-size-fits-all fair:</div>
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For some, three
squares</div>
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and a roof seem finer</div>
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than their wildest
dreams;</div>
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for others, four
mansions,</div>
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three sailboats and a
private plane</div>
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seem woefully lame.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And here's the thing—</div>
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cosmic dust surely
contains</div>
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as much cashmere and
brown sugar</div>
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as harpoons and
bitterroot.</div>
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So spin, windmill,
spin!</div>
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Keep the stuff of life</div>
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in constant circulation!</div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
Cup of joy—</div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
enough to warrant
celebration!</div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
And, if not cashmere—</div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
at least the kiss of
flannel</div>
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soft and warm.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 9;"> </span>Glenda
Breeden (April 2015)</div>
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<br /></div>
A Dozen Roses to
You<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Glenda Breeden<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April 2015)</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wear that Medicaid badge with
pride!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Look the receptionist, the
nurse, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the doctor square in the eye!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Look me square in the eye!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No shame allowed! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No blame tolerated!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Decorate the badge, the card </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">with flowers and bees, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">redbud trees in full bloom, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">shooting stars and harvest
moon! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hang hopes and ten thousand </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">dreams on that card </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to ward off the misguided
judgment </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of the better than thous. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Those who would have you bow
your head, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">fall on bended knees and say:
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Please, please, pretty
please! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Who but you can possibly know</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the blow by blow </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of harsh winds that have
ricocheted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">your body and soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">from one government agency to
the next,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">from applications and
oral<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>citations</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to that fistful of IDs,
utility bills </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and housing confirmation
required</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">as proof of your worth </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and the worth of your kids?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Forget the skids that slid
your game plan</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">sideways to begin with!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Or who but you can understand
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the choices you've made:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">To live your individual
truth,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to climb your own definition
of success</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and lay low the status quo
ladder</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of oneupmanship and dog eat
dog </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">in exchange for your own
chosen work, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">that personal song that sings
joy to your spirit </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and the heart of your home. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Sad to say, most doctors </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">no longer accept poems or
paintings,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">sweet potatoes or rutabagas,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">fresh farm eggs or homemade
cookies</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">as barter for their needed
expertise!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No apologies please—</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Freeze that frame
immediately!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Name the guilt that society
has spilled </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">on almost everyone who needs
a hand up.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Stand up taller than the
small minded,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">refuse to let their attitude </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">shape your dignity and self
worth,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and don't ever doubt from
within or without</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">that the health and well
being </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of thee and thine </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">matters every bit as much as
these </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">apple shine cheeks of me and
mine! </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A dozen roses to you!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For stepping up to the plate</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and accepting your due, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">your share of the pie—</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">scoop it up and taste the
sweetness</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of health-care provided!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And, don't forget—</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">wear that Medicaid badge with
pride!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chin up, shoulders back,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">confidence too true to hide!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Look the powers that be
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Adria and her service dog Lucy, better known as Lu, are a magical team. One is autistic one is not. I met Adria when she became part of our Indiana Daily Student Family. She covered mostly city issues and did a great job. She is smart, funny and articulate. One of my favorite stories was the one Adria told us about her challenges with autism. She became disoriented easily and had a difficult time finding her way around the huge Indiana University Campus. It was hard for her to follow directions in order to get to class, a daunting task for any freshmen, let alone one who is directionally challenged. In her clever way, Adria devised a plan which she hoped would save her from embarrassment. She would adopt a French, Spanish or British accent when she approached someone to ask for directions. She didn't feel as foolish asking directions as a foreign student as she would have asking as a freshmen from Louisville, Kentucky. Brilliant!</div>
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But Adria found her key to independence, an angel in the guise of a service dog. Adria and Lu went through the training together. There was a very scary time when Lu had a joint problem that could disqualify her from the service program if she couldn't be healed. We all held our breath and tried to support Adria who was beside herself with the fear that her vision of freedom would evaporate with the loss of Lu. We heaved a great sigh of relief when Lu got the all clear. Everyone was doing a happy dance while Lu looked at us as if we had all lost our minds. Adria's zest for life is contagious. </div>
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ten-plus years of this remarkable community-in/of-the-making took place at the
end of last month—our first Volunteer In-Service session. Several of us confessed later that we had not
wakened on that Saturday morning eager to spend the precious weekend day
learning to volunteer for an organization many had already been working to
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ever attended, and LIKE pretty much every other event offered by this
astonishing community of writing women, the day was surprising,
thought-provoking, joyful, transformational.</span></span></div>
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container. We opened with a beloved and (as always) perfectly chosen poem:</span></span></div>
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jump into work head first<br />
without dallying in the shallows<br />
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.<br />
They seem to become natives of that element,<br />
the black sleek heads of seals<br />
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themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,<br />
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,<br />
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,<br />
who do what has to be done, again and again.</span></span></div>
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submerge<br />
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest<br />
and work in a row and pass the bags along,<br />
who are not parlor generals and field deserters<br />
but move in a common rhythm<br />
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.</span></span></div>
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as mud.<br />
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.<br />
But the thing worth doing well done<br />
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.<br />
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,<br />
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums<br />
but you know they were made to be used.<br />
The pitcher cries for water to carry<br />
and a person for work that is real.</span></span></div>
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writing centered on work that is real, what constitutes that work, what spirit
and aspirations, mission and values, reach and opportunity further it. A heady
brew of words, laughter, creativity, community, and common purpose filled the
container to brimming. A new outreach and potential partnership with StoneBelt
staff and clients came into focus. New
teams of cleaners, grantwriters, table staffers, holders of
yet-to-be-identified spaces, plotters and planners emerged. An optional
afternoon session facilitated by the women who have held writing space in the
Monroe County Jail now for coming-on-nine-years was equally rich and
revelatory, and new volunteers to share that work are in the pipeline. The transformational possibilities of
community and common purpose firmly grounded in the presumption of goodwill
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up for Autism fundraiser at The Comedy Attic to celebrate the Semicentennial
Anniversary of the birth of a beloved one of us. It was a joy to hear deep
popcorn laughter flowing among us, in yet another outing, yet another setting,
for women to laugh and celebrate one another. A hilarious aspect of the evening
was that the headline comic got the idea that our party was a work group (which
we are, but not in the way that he assumed), and that we were a <b>government</b> work
group. Moreover, as he unpacked his
comic explorations of gender and sexual differences, he began (whether for the
purposes of working the room or for real) to riff on another assumption, that
we were “mad at him.” Best joke of the
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it the bad company, bad whiskey or bad habits and political excitement? Brain
fever, congestion, or the Death of your sons in the war? Did you fall apart,
disappointed in love, dog bitten or bitter, was it egotism, rheumatism, or a
fall from
a horse? Feebleness, jealousy or some other female disease? Was it the fire in
the the farmhouse, the lost cat, your hysteria after his desertion and you with
the 6 kids simmering on the outskirts of town? Was it uterine derangement, venereal
excess greediness or Grief? What superstition, what time of life, what stroke
of insight brought you through those tall oak doors hard slamming behind you, locked
up for good with you and your domestic afflictions, your cardboard suitcase,
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Cora who received no honorable mention at the family table. Only murmers and
downward glances. Forks
and knives placed carefully on the edges of our chipped china plates til polite
conversation resumed and your name, sealed in linen napkins on our laps, was simply rinsed
out in the next day’s wash. Hung to dry. Carried away on intemperate winds. </div>
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The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-26388580015783936792015-04-06T06:47:00.000-07:002015-04-06T06:51:02.804-07:00Time to Be Gentle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No longer do we trudge, heavy with snow boot steps,<br />
flatten the ground and carve sled tracks and snow angel imprints,<br />
dream of greens freshly picked,<br />
wonder when we'll welcome the rains of April and May.<br />
<br />
Yesterday, covered from nose tip to toe tip, my children emerged<br />
from the woods, just beyond our house,<br />
smiling in a way a child does when mud soaks<br />
through their shoes<br />
and skin.<br />
<br />
They told their father and me about tree shelters<br />
and critters and shoes disappearingin "quicksand".<br />
<br />
Their breath is quick as they finish each other's sentences and giggles,<br />
and go off together to retrieve the lost shoe.<br />
We remind them to stay outside and where to find the hose.<br />
<br />
Later, I'll go down to see where their stories live,<br />
watch how plastic army men zip line through the trees,<br />
admire the fairy house freshly painted.<br />
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Together we'll walk lightly,<br />
watch with purpose where our feet find ground.<br />
There is mud, yes, to avoid or not,<br />
but our eyes are searching for something else-<br />
those first bits of purple and white, tulip leaves,<br />
the daffodils declaring the season with yellow heads raised.<br />
<br />
Each time our eyes find new life,<br />
we celebrate by being still.<br />
We shed a little more of any harsh winter blues that may linger,<br />
and remind ourselves it's time to be gentle.<br />
We no longer must trudge with heavy steps.<br />
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<br />
KGS<br />
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<br />The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-43009125135702875442015-03-30T06:41:00.002-07:002015-03-30T06:48:18.156-07:00Sprinkles on a Chocolate Earth<em>...taken from a fastwrite during the "Homeschoolers 3-week class series" about 'spring.'</em><br />
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I drive the way I always do through the narrow, car-parked corridors of Bloomington streets...<em>prepared</em>. For opening car doors, stray cats, wandering students, baby-wearing dads, or the occasional couch on curb. Prepared either to dodge, or feast my eyes - elaborate lawns turned wildspace, artscape grass ornaments, band on a front porch . My little black Honda, <em>Loretta</em>, is miniature and swift, perfect.<br />
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Today, the five-month grey, cobalt frame of winter stains my retina. Passing pokey knee knobs of trees with skeletal branches over and over, I sigh. I drive the way I always do. Until I don't. A lawn blanket of perky spring crocus strips all co-ordinated efforts. My car drives towards them as if being pulled, lured by the Siren's songs.<br />
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<em>They've got all the crocuses in town!</em><br />
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Tiny violet miracles, effervecent magic like sprinkles on a chocolate earth. I turn the wheel just in time to remember, I'm still driving. The stranger's yard survives a near collision.<br />
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<em>It'd be sad to drive over all those flowers.</em><br />
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It's a wonder that each time the spring face says hello, it's a wonder. Even though I've heard it's story before. I love this about spring, how it lifts us out of expectation, scatters our vision like puzzle pieces into a new, <em>oh yeah</em>. Prepared?<br />
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<em>-Refreshing life is always alive </em><em>beneath the surface waiting to spring</em><br />
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Allison <br />
for the PGM<br />
<em></em><br />The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-13549963268632806812015-03-18T04:47:00.001-07:002015-03-18T04:47:48.819-07:00Crazy (A poem for Connemara)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Because we're all getting our Irish on this week, here's a poem from my trip to Ireland in the Fall of 2103, written for one of the most beautiful landscapes I know:<br />
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Crazy<br /><br />I am crazy in love with Connemara:<br />striped granite mountains hulking in fog or cloud,<br />alien boglands grown over with improbably yellow gorse<br />filled with flat silver water ruffling in salt wind,<br />curve after curve after inlet of<br />fine white sand, or tiny bits of coral, or round lavender rocks,<br />fuschia, montbretia, hawthorn<br />long low strands or rounded hills or cliff-edged roads<br />mix-and-match combinations<br />each as perfect as the next<br />with rainbow sheep sprinkled over all.<br /><br />If I lived in one of those thick white cottages<br />("Bungalow for Sale" says the hand-lettered sign)<br />I'd spend my days looking out windows<br />at the sea, at the bog, at the sky,<br />lost in wonder.<br /><br />So when I see a man walking his dog of an evening<br />his hair silver, or brown, or red, long clomping stride,<br />hands shoved deep into pockets,<br />I want to ask, are you married?<br />Can I kiss you?<br />Marrying into one of those cottages<br />seeming in this moment<br />like the most wonderful thing,<br />the fulfillment of every desire.<br /><br />And if he is married, well,<br />maybe I'd kiss him anyway<br />because Connemara is so beautiful<br />and this<br />is a perfect day.<br />
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–– Mary Pat Lynch<br />
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Slainté!The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-12312811744013731862015-03-08T20:07:00.002-07:002015-03-08T20:07:51.383-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><i>What a Gift!</i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Voluptuous body filled
out</div>
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every square inch</div>
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of her sweater and
jeans.</div>
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Red raspberry lipstick</div>
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begged for a kiss,</div>
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juicy on full luscious
lips.</div>
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The caramel skinned
mama</div>
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was decked out as sexy</div>
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as prison rules would
allow.</div>
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<br /></div>
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She had an easy way</div>
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with her curly haired
toddler,</div>
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laughed and made
playful games</div>
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of prison
inconvenience:</div>
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“Hop up here, baby!</div>
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“Hold on to Tigger!</div>
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“One, two....three!”</div>
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She jumped her</div>
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from floor to counter
top—</div>
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the four foot high
partition</div>
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dividing visitors</div>
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from guards.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Her manicured fingers</div>
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glittered silver and
blue</div>
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as she gently screwed
backs</div>
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from tiny gold hoops</div>
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that pierced her
daughter's</div>
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perfect butter bean
ears.</div>
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“No hurry, baby.</div>
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“You're being so
patient.</div>
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“There, that does it.</div>
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“Whee! Jump back
down!”</div>
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<br /></div>
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Milk chocolate skin,</div>
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dark chocolate eyes,</div>
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delightful gourmet
confection</div>
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dressed up in rainbow
colors,</div>
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fancy yellow bow</div>
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flared out at the
back—</div>
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the lively child
charmed everyone</div>
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with her innocent
smile</div>
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as she skipped and
sang</div>
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in her own little
world.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Mama stowed miniature
earrings</div>
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and her own dazzling
jewels</div>
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in a gray metal locker</div>
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with purse,
sunglasses, and keys.</div>
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When her daughter
kissed Tigger</div>
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and laid him on top,</div>
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I blinked back tears.</div>
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And when she slammed
the locker door</div>
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with a jolting
“Clang!”—</div>
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everyone laughed,</div>
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even the guards.</div>
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“Okay, strong girl,</div>
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“let's go see Daddy!”</div>
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<br /></div>
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Spread-eagle frisked</div>
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and metal detector
scanned,</div>
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we parted ways</div>
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after passing through</div>
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two more check-point
gates.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He's going to be one happy papa!”</div>
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I called.</div>
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She nodded and smiled,</div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
eyes bright, full of
love,</div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
full of confidence and
pride</div>
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as she carried her
beauty</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and her baby</div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
through the caged-in
walk</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>toward the man inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Glenda
Breeden</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>February<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2015</div>
The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-9969974366310912042015-03-02T10:59:00.002-08:002015-03-02T10:59:17.765-08:00Spinning Toward the Stars<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">
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Spinning Toward the Stars</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fumble for the light,
and you’ll be stark awake, but the vision will be fading, slipping out of
reach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Denise Levertov
Writing in the Dark</div>
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How many years did I spend fumbling for the light? And which
light? I think I mostly fumbled because it wasn’t my light for which I searched.
It was someone else’s idea of what my life light should be. As I look back, I
think I fumbled or pretended I couldn’t find the switch because I didn’t want
to bathe in a light that wasn’t mine. </div>
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There were times when I blindly walked into the not me
light, blinking at its harshness and wondering how I got drawn into its chilly
circle. It was magnetically uncomfortable, hard to pull away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I kept pulling away and fumbling
until I was exhausted. Family and friends looked at me suspiciously as I
twisted and turned. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is she doing?
Why is she changing?</i> They whispered fearfully to each other.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> She’s not cooperating like she always has.
This can’t be good, </i>they hissed. </div>
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But it was good. What appeared as uncontrolled spinning to them
was life saving for me. Spinning toward my own light. No fumbling for the
switch, no more faux light. It had always been within reach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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My light was creamy, warm, embracing and allowed me to
shine, a star in a universe of my own design. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brilliant. </div>
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Rebekah for the Poplar Grove Muse</div>
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The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-32754860229894927202015-02-23T06:26:00.002-08:002015-02-23T06:26:41.296-08:00Coffee<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes,
in the Morning, when my mind and body are deciding if it is time to get up, a
joyful little nudge in the back of my brain whispers, “There is coffee waiting
for you when you get up”. This is usually enough of an incentive to make me throw
back the covers and start my day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Having a cup of coffee in the morning is a simple everyday thing. Something I
have done thousands of times in my life. I think finding such pleasure in it now,
is something that has come to me, as I get older. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
process of aging can be treacherous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The changes that silently creep over my face and body startle me when I
look in the mirror. I wonder who that old woman is that is staring back at me.
There are days when I wonder where my brain has run off to because it doesn’t
seem to be with me. To know that I live in the generation that is “up to bat”
so to say, in the “meet your maker” department is pretty daunting too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So
it was a joyful thing, when I found out that there are gifts we receive as we age. One of
them is being able to perceive and take pleasure in the small joys of life. Another is a clearer self awareness of who I am and what I chose to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is true, my hearing may not be as keen as it once was but when I listen I am
more likely to hear with my heart and truly understand the meaning of the words.
I find myself being a better listener now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may need
glasses to correct my vision but now when I look, I not only see the bird but I
also see the beauty of the bird. I can see the world in all of its spectrums. I see things now that my younger eyes would have passed over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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learned over the years that it is a choice, not an obligation to please other
people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find that I can enjoy
the company of others but I can enjoy my own company, just as well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am no longer overly concerned with
others option of me, as the saying goes; it really is none of my business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My moral compass has been set to my
personal, due north, and I am at peace with my beliefs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth and freedom of knowing these
things is another gift of growing older.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I will take pleasure in the moments I spend sipping my coffee, in the stillness of
this winter morning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will take
time to notice the beauty of the cup that holds my brew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will relish the cradling comfort of
my favorite chair and I will plan my day, anticipating the joy I will find in its
hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Diana,
for the Poplar Grove Muse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Love the quiet, liquid dark, skin shine after a storm<o:p></o:p></div>
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It washed in lately with me and mine after a storm<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blue chairs on beaches, sea oats, lonely mailbox delivery<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walking the strand this time after a storm<o:p></o:p></div>
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Turtles move with tides, my tiny one sleeps and cries<o:p></o:p></div>
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Time passes lightning strikes far off after a storm<o:p></o:p></div>
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Puzzle pieces strewn round kitchen table jumble<o:p></o:p></div>
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Test my mental metal reach for rhymes after a storm<o:p></o:p></div>
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Far off blue, this part of you, I cannot touch or know<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chocolate drops drip, my tongue trips we fall down inside my
mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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Valentines daze me, roses, daisies candied lips inside my
mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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Velvety sheets, deep red wine, blood spit shine <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love letters galore will not quit inside my mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coast of Maine, shuttered windows, stuttered words, the old
days<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twang and thrum and hearts well lit inside my mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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Too many days and water over bridges, what’s yours is mine,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And every single hurt and sweetness sticks inside my mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elephant memory, trumpet vine, we wrap we warp we <o:p></o:p></div>
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Intertwine, the ways of forgiveness candle lit inside my
mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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So give Beth a rose, for real and true and a beating heart<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year from you, all sadness gone, no petals ripped
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About Ghazal:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The ghazal</b> is a
love lyric of from five to 12 verses. The content is religious, secular, or a
combination of both. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Scholar Gene Doty writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> here are what I understand to be the basic features of a
ghazal in Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, etc.:</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A ghazal is a series of
couplets. Each couplet is an independent poem, although a thematic
continuity may develop. T<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Traditional themes that focus
on romantic love and mysticism. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Both lines of the first
couplet (called the "matla") and the second line of each
succeeding couplet have the same monorhyme ("qafia") and refrain
("radif"). <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The refrain (radif) is the
same word or short phrase (or even syllable, according to Ali). <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://web.umr.edu/~gdoty/poems/essays/ghazals.html#arberry#arberry"><span style="color: windowtext;">A. J. Arberry</span></a> says that each couplet
of the Persian ghazal ends in a monorhyme (words ending with the same
vowel+consonant combination), but he does not mention the refrain. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All the couplets are in the
same meter. (Ali does not mention meter.) <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The poet "signs"
the last couplet ("makhta") by including her/his name or pen
name ("takhallus").<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Poems
published in English as ghazals usually have only the first feature. Agha
Shahid Ali insists that a poem cannot be a ghazal without inclusion of all the
features. He especially insists on the radif/refrain. Avachat says that
sometimes the radif is omitted. <a href="http://web.umr.edu/~gdoty/poems/essays/ghazals.html#drury#drury"><span style="color: windowtext;">John Drury</span></a>'s description of the form, like
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grandpa Cookie Knees gets out of that worn brown chair.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my five year old fingers rub the Oreo cream </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From the
silence,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">the lineage
I see in your eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">the child
you were</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">in the gaze </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can hear,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
protest of death </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">is a smile-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">there is
nothing quiet about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Demonstrate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The only
promise I can make</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">is to return
to this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When the day
takes my vision away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and I’m not
sure where to turn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">let me love
you,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From the
silence</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">through the
lineage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">in your eyes. </span><br />
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<br />
presses down on the silent black pavement<br />
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retracing the vexing etude intervals,<br />
the brightness of many lamps, fading supper smells.<br />
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Mary for The Poplar Grove Muse
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<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-76015936984491538332015-01-19T00:30:00.000-08:002015-01-19T00:30:03.190-08:00Ferguson, Cleveland, New York City<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzm3wrEg5PUXhDpiciHGxE-dtY1F71C0bwaeMdDpINu8CoToOIxSOiPGNcQ0t2pZf3NOjuIOYomqQhxMXdf_tnggaC05vBOFu9mSY7dK9Qe5ra2uMyw9Lln_qbjIyAmLh4QfHOjsOpM0/s1600/DSC_0024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzm3wrEg5PUXhDpiciHGxE-dtY1F71C0bwaeMdDpINu8CoToOIxSOiPGNcQ0t2pZf3NOjuIOYomqQhxMXdf_tnggaC05vBOFu9mSY7dK9Qe5ra2uMyw9Lln_qbjIyAmLh4QfHOjsOpM0/s1600/DSC_0024.jpg" height="265" width="400" /></a><br />
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Headlines,
breaking news<br />
multimedia coverage of too much<br />
unnecessary suffering<br />
at the hands of gun wielding authorities<br />
notorious for dealing out<br />
different strokes to different folks<br />
as mood or mandate<br />
or fear dictates<br />
and racism trumps the high ideals<br />
of Officer Friendly<br />
and runs roughshod and unapologetic<br />
over basic human rights<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forget
equality and respect<br />
at the hands of the blue-suited man<br />
endorsed by racist faces staring back<br />
at so many ordinary people<br />
from bathroom mirrors<br />
and store windows<br />
shattered and scattered<br />
on concrete and asphalt<br />
like a thousand million shards<br />
of hopes and dreams<br />
bleeding dry the famed mountain<br />
where Martin Luther King proclaimed<br />
“I have a dream!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forget
dignity and worth<br />
if his skin is brown like mother earth<br />
or black as midnight<br />
like the lies the jury swallowed<br />
hook, line, and shine them shoes<br />
lick them boots<br />
get the fuck off the street<br />
forget the cigars from the local store<br />
the handful of untaxed roll-your-owns<br />
the child behind the pellet gun<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Bow down, damn you, bow down!”<br />
cries the uniformed brother<br />
anachronistic player<br />
of the coned hat society<br />
endorsed by racist politicians<br />
posturing pseudo sympathies<br />
while turning deaf ears to cries<br />
of mothers and fathers<br />
of preachers and teachers<br />
of young people boldly holding signs<br />
crossing lines of color, class, and comfort<br />
to reclaim civilization<br />
for their generation<o:p></o:p></div>
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And
when angry passions ignite<br />
and fight and flight<br />
short circuit clear thinking<br />
and nothing-to-lose<br />
vandalizes, loots, burns and destroys<br />
peaceful solutions seem light years away<br />
like the end of all war, hunger, and hate<br />
out of touch<br />
with anything real<br />
or attainable<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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And
then the marches begin<br />
the hundreds of thousands<br />
maybe the millions<br />
of people of all colors<br />
and ages and class<br />
take to the streets<br />
the bridges, the sidewalks<br />
in cities and towns<br />
all over the globe<br />
lift up strong voices and say<br />
“We are one!”<br />
pick up bloodied shards<br />
of hopes and dreams<br />
and piece them together<br />
with love thy neighbor<br />
and we shall overcome<br />
someday soon<br />
please someday soon<br />
and hoist them high<br />
for peace and justice<br />
and equal rights for all<br />
right here, right now<br />
wherever, whatever<br />
whoever we are<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Headlines,
breaking news<br />
multimedia coverage<br />
of the good, the bad<br />
the ugly and sad<br />
members of this human race<br />
we take our place<br />
we stand our ground<br />
for peace or not<br />
the whole world round<o:p></o:p></div>
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(for Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner)<br />
Christmas Day 2014<o:p></o:p></div>
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Glenda
for the Poplar Grove Muse<br />
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The Poplar Grove Schoolhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953317045237120617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130453516619576455.post-46879689352519218802015-01-11T16:11:00.001-08:002015-01-11T16:11:18.521-08:00Embracing Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Embracing Life</i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Today, this day, I can embrace </i></div>
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<i>every abundance </i></div>
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<i>large and small</i></div>
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<i>thanks to the things</i></div>
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<i>I've shed.</i></div>
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<i>Like leaves falling one at a time</i></div>
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<i>from an autumn tree, </i></div>
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<i>I have walked through </i></div>
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<i>this life shedding,</i></div>
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<i>as each season desired,</i></div>
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<i>what no longer made sense</i></div>
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<i>for me to carry.</i></div>
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<i>My burdens growing lighter </i></div>
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<i>with each passing year.</i></div>
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<i>Why carry hurts </i></div>
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<i>and if-onlies?</i></div>
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<i>Who needs </i></div>
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<i> to </i><i>strap bitterness</i></div>
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<i>to her back and carry it around</i></div>
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<i>until she is crushed </i></div>
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<i>from the weight of it?</i></div>
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<i>Not the me, </i></div>
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<i> I am in this moment.</i></div>
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<i>I no longer keep walking </i></div>
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<i>into the same wall,</i></div>
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<i>receiving the same wounds. </i></div>
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<i>I no longer loop around and around</i></div>
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<i>until I'm dizzy from</i></div>
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<i>getting nowhere.</i></div>
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<i>I can walk with my back straight,</i></div>
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<i>my neck craned to get a glimpse</i></div>
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<i>of </i><i>what adventure is around</i></div>
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<i>the next corner.</i></div>
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<i>Rebekah for the Poplar Grove Muse</i></div>
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