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‘Bubbles’ by Ann Christine Tabaka

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April 11, 2018
Beauty, Children's, Poetry
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Glistening orbs Dance on air Drifting skyward Without a care Iridescent spheres Shimmering bright Reflecting prisms In the sunlight Luminous globes Fragile and frail Constructed of A diaphanous...

‘The Wisest Poem Ever’ by J.J. Bitters

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March 18, 2018
Beauty, Children's, Poetry
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  The wisest poem ever Was written by my daughter, Although I’ve never known her To be much of a scholar. She’s only five years old now, But wise beyond her years. My daughter wrote a...

‘A Shen Yun Holiday Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk

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December 10, 2017
Beauty, Children's, Performing Arts, Poetry
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When Santa’s sleigh took to the sky, He saw a wonder by him fly: A Chinese Fairy dance on clouds And point to where there gathered crowds; A theater’s lights shone dazzling bright And beckoned him...

‘Grading Gumnuts’ by David Watt

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September 14, 2017
Children's, Humor, Poetry
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  One afternoon, ‘neath forest tall, where Sunlight dons disguise, I saw a sight few people see (unless they’re telling lies); For under Swamp Mahogany there stood attired in green, An amusing...

‘How Much Wheat Can a Woodchuck Eat?’ by Connie Phillips

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March 21, 2017
Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
How much wheat can a woodchuck eat? Or cabbage, carrots, and peas, Spinach, parsley, peppers, and kale, Tomatoes, lettuce, n’ beans? What if he brings his family n’ friends? A party they will...

‘Darkness’ and Other Poetry by Christine Lawson

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February 25, 2017
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Darkness No longer did they see the need For things called books they used to read. Music—no longer symphonies, But simple tunes composed with ease. And what of Beauty?  What of Grace? They...

‘Where is Alice’ by Paris Michael

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February 19, 2017
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Where was it that Alice went, One bright and shining day, A rabbit's lair, beneath the blare, A restless child at play, And where was it that Alice was, To greet a smoking bug, Who's pipe spelled...

‘Time (for Children)’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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February 14, 2017
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  Time (for Children) Time flies, as everyone knows and time marches on, as the saying goes and time will stand still now and then when we wish but does time ever swim for fish? And does it swing...

‘Witches’ Brew’ and Other Poetry by Susan Martin

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December 17, 2016
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  Witches’ Brew Round and round the seven seas go, In the putrid poisons throw, Double, double toil and trouble, dolphins die and oceans bubble. Extract of mercury, pcb’s, poison waters by...

‘Kitty’s Crime’ by David Schultz

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December 12, 2016
Children's, Humor, Poetry
  Kitty staring at the tipped fishbowl (whoever felled it left not a hair), With no one home, what was, do you think, The mysterious force that toppled it there? I will honestly say I do not...

‘Ice’ and Other Poetry by Michael Curtis

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August 26, 2016
Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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  Ice I open my golden flowing fins,     I dance beneath the ice, I dip and twirl and pose and spin:     Tell me, don’t I look nice? Look at me! a...
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  1. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘Umbra’ and Other Cloud Poetry by Adam SediaAugust 18, 2025

    I like "Umbra" (a Petrarchan sonnet in tetrameters, no less!) and the way it plays with the interaction of bright…

  2. Roy Eugene Peterson on ‘Umbra’ and Other Cloud Poetry by Adam SediaAugust 18, 2025

    Marvelous cloud descriptors with imaginative imagery. Now there is one word, "botryoidal," I never heard on a weather forecast, yet…

  3. Susan Jarvis Bryant on ‘To the Ancient Mariner’ and Other Poems by Brian YapkoAugust 18, 2025

    What a literary treat of a trio of fine poems, Brian. For me, the poems, although very different on the…

  4. Morrison Handley-Schachler on ‘True Worth’: A Poem by Margaret BrintonAugust 18, 2025

    This is excellent reading, Margaret, and very well expressed. In the last stanza one can feel some of St. Paul's…

  5. Margaret Brinton on ‘News of a Coup’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis BryantAugust 18, 2025

    Susan, somehow life seemed rather normal in my Midwestern, mid-century upbringing. How times have changed to the extent that you…

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