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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when Continue reading A Privacy About It
Snowdrop Flower, Plainfield, Vermont “The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” Gertrude S. Waster I know spring is two months away but with our mild winter it Continue reading The Flowers of Early Spring
Farmers Market Bouquet
The Fiddlehead Blog: 10 Rules for Submitting: If you missed the deadline for The Fiddlehead’s 21st Annual Literary Contest , fret not! The Fiddlehead accepts submissions year-round so i…
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. Robert Louis Continue reading Carry Your Burden
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Poets are good listeners. They find moments, experiences and images and write poems from what others might perceive as silence. Often poetry exposes the ugliness and the beauty of our world reminding us what we might have forgotten or what Continue reading How to start a poem
Whereof the Gift Is Small by Maxine W. Kumin : Poetry Magazine
How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880 And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself Continue reading The postman’s knock