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Jun 8, 20201 min read
3 Haiku from Donna's Garden
Laurels exploding Little hoop skirts now unfurl Dancing in the sun Weeding is peaceful Minds wander many landscapes Savor the journey...
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BML Staff
Jun 8, 20201 min read
2 Haiku from Lorraine's Garden
A green stake holds up the budding white peony as promise unfolds. On the banks of creeks Jack-in-the-pulpits convene to hear the frogs...
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BML Staff
Jun 8, 20201 min read
Some Haiku from Jenny
Hello dahlia you bland boring tuber root of wondrous promise Do not blink an eye or those zucchini babes will become zuke bats Sunflower...
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BML Staff
Jun 8, 20201 min read
Doves by Robbie
Peaceful mourning doves sleeping in the sun, wings spread. Together always.
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BML Staff
Jun 1, 20201 min read
Haiku in My Garden! June's BML Challenge
Announcing BML’s June Challenge! “Haiku in My Garden” We will accept submissions until June 30th emailed to Robbie The Haiku team will...
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BML Staff
May 19, 20201 min read
Sing Me a Story [a book title poem] by Stacey Grimaldi
Sing me a story! - The songs of distant earth the language of flowers beach music hugging the shore; the inextinguishable symphony.
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BML Staff
May 12, 20202 min read
If— by Rudyard Kipling
Read by Sir Michael Caine: Listen here If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can...
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BML Staff
May 12, 20202 min read
DESIDERATA ~ MAX EHRMANN
Read by the Author: Listen here. GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as...
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BML Staff
May 6, 20201 min read
Excerpt from "A Blessing for the Breakup of a Relationship" by John O'Donohue
"This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of...
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Apr 30, 20201 min read
Hubris by Lorraine Riess
Haitian quake orphans were reunited with their parents after American Missionaries were arrested for taking 33 children on a bus headed...
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Apr 30, 20201 min read
In the Time of Pandemic by Kitty O'Meara
One of the most popular pandemic poems to date was authored by Kitty O'Meara, a retired teacher in Lake Mills. And the people stayed...
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Apr 28, 20201 min read
Book Title Challenge Poem by Ana
The Affable Curmudgeon Falling off the Map Self-Portrait PLAY IT LOUD Raise Up Off Me I've Seen The Future and I'm Not Going This Is It A...
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Apr 27, 20201 min read
I Trust the Wind and Don’t Know Why By Wyn Cooper
Read by the author. I am not the girl in the picture. I am not the smell of hyacinths. I might be the boy. I am off the record. I am not...
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Apr 27, 20201 min read
Tell the Bees by Sarah Lindsay
Tell the bees. They require news of the house; they must know, lest they sicken from the gap between their ignorance and our grief. ...
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Apr 27, 20201 min read
WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...
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Apr 23, 20201 min read
Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let's not speak in any language; let's stop...
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