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April 1, 2019, One April first, a waning crescent, sliver-thin. look for the penumbra to discern her true nature, a wandering orb tallying time by phases, shifts the world. Possibilities pulse at shorelines, the beat of circles, cycles, orbits. Butterflies and whales drift north toward the pole tilt...

Scary---I'm no spring chicken and dementia is one of my greatest fears. On the whole a good treatment of an all too human subject. I question whether the waitress would reply she is only eighteen as she probably doesn't realize he is reliving some distant past memory. She might be more inclined to s...

Good advice Gyppo,

BTW crow feathers were used to write a hand that has come to be known as "copperplate" which of course it wasn't because that name refers to the recreation of the written hand on a printing plate. 

Just killing time until the hour and day arrives

Thank you for the read and kind comments Sharon. I'm looking forward to your wonderful writing during NaPo.

Phil should you happen by this thread again I noticed I missed your comments earlier. Thank you for the read and positive FB. Will you be joining us for NaPo as well?

Welcome to our cozy little site April. I look forward to reading your work and hearing about your adventures in getting published--congratulations.

Judging from this write I'd say your muse is over your right shoulder in robust good health singing like a Wagnarian opera star

I should look beyond the "post yer poems" thread more often. This is interesting. Let me throw out one more theory re the rise of poetry---the decline of attention span. Everything is in 30 second commercials, sound bites and action packed whatever.  Are younger readers of poetry less inclined to sp...

Is it OK to admit you have favorites among your own poems? One of mine is a sestina I wrote about 12 years ago--but don't tell my other poems. I had the six stanzas composed of six lines each but I didn't know the rules for the tercet at the end. After I joined MWC and posted what I had on that site...

The revision clarifies all.   I really like the device of the similarities between the dog who loves the hunt and the dog's master--also a dog--hmmmph.