Tag: poetry
A Cardinal Experience
CardinalFrom the latin cardoWhich means hinge A curious linkFrom my high school studiesTo both of our college mascots Cardinals serveAs a doorway connectingEarth and spirit Your birthA Cardinal ExperienceIn my life Your momentous selfA link betweenPast and future Written for my son Noah. Published via LexPoMo 2021. Image by Carol Berney via Flickr.
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For Noah
A cardinal is exactly who you were meant to beHere on the hinge of childhoodWith adulthood vivid and bright before you I wish you a big lifeFull of love and laughter and meaningI hope you will always live largeWith a generous spirit and eyes fixed on the horizon The cardinal you have always beenLoyal tender…
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The Replacement
The Stand-in mask slips and pinchesUnable to stifle tears or painFiltration layer at fault?Was contamination inevitableFrom the moment the Original slippedTo breathe freely to taste the world?Are tears the price of admissionTo the land of the livingOr the dying? Published via LexPoMo 2020. Image by Łukasz Dyłka from Pixabay
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Fort Sill Lesson Plan
Geography – Map the locations of the Red River War engagements used to drive the men, women, and children of the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho to their breaking point History – Write accurate biography of Geronimo, Satanta, or a Buffalo Soldier buried near them English – Read the letters and memoirs of the people…
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Here’s An Idea
Bite your tongue if your body has not been misunderstood monitored mutilated Stifle if your voice has not been regulated repressed restrained Muzzle if you have lawfully loved lived laughed The others are talking Now you listen Artwork by Pixabay
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