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Two Letters, Two Brothers, Ten Years Apart
A TBT for today about two letters, written about a decade apart, one by me and one by my brother Jeff when we were 9 and 10 years of age. It still gives me giggles and foggy glasses every time. Source: Two Letters, Two Brothers, Ten Years Apart
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Two Love Poems by Derek Walcott
You might question my designation of this first poem as a love poem but I would counter that a poem need not mention the word “love” to be a love poem. To be precise, though, one might call it a lovelorn poem or a writer’s poem about love and loss. From someone who lives in…
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Stella – 1 Da Valley – 0
Originally posted on TomFlannery.com: Stella – 1 The Valley – 0 Our daughter was stranded at a friend’s house less than a mile away (she had spent Monday night there). And we couldn’t get to her. Road was blocked with an Archbald borough plow being towed with a chain by a large piece of…
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Blizzard 2017 Is in the Books
Or it will be. Someone should write books about it. I imagine there will be some epic poems coming out of what the Weather Channel was calling “Stella.” Apparently, the National Weather Service is not involving themselves in the marketing scheme of naming winter storms, though. They’re sticking to hurricanes for that kind of treatment.…
