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05/30/2024 Begin Anew 105 Ottava rima
05/30/2024 Moonlit Murmurs 11 Free verse
05/27/2024 What of A Pearl? 26 Rhyme
05/27/2024 Submissive Silence 93 Rhyme
05/07/2024 When Silence Speaks 112 Sonnet
04/23/2024 To which image should we cling? 100 Quatrain
04/01/2024 I Wish I Had 74 Rhyme
03/28/2024 Ocean City Dream 414 Rhyme
02/16/2024 The Natural Order 103 Etheree
02/10/2024 THERE IS A DARKNESS 99 Rhyme
02/03/2024 Fulfillment 148 Rhyme
01/30/2024 The Human Puzzle 106 Rhyme
01/30/2024 Can We Say, Science Fiction Anymore? 192 Free verse
01/29/2024 Organic Balm 82 Sonnet
01/22/2024 Awaking from Stupor 146 Sonnet
01/22/2024 To the Brother Keepers 144 Free verse
01/17/2024 How Great A Box 138 Rhyme
01/13/2024 The Mighty Pines 118 Quatrain
01/11/2024 The Chosen Landing 91 Quatrain
01/11/2024 Silver Dawn 62 Rhyme
01/08/2024 Sipping Coffee 99 Quatrain
01/07/2024 The Steel Box 56 Quatrain
01/02/2024 God's Got Our Back 165 Free verse
08/10/2023 Evening Prayer 150 Kyrielle
08/10/2023 We Are the Kingdom 146 Rhyme
08/03/2023 Morning Prayer Sonnet 105 Sonnet
06/11/2023 Endless Promise 155 Free verse
06/11/2023 Slow Death 138 Sonnet
05/08/2023 Rose Meadow 526 Free verse
05/08/2023 On the Passing of Grannie 532 Ode
05/07/2023 Psalm 2023 550 Couplet
04/03/2023 To Rolling Fork, Mississippi 435 Sonnet
03/20/2023 Victor's Dance 464 Rhyme
03/06/2023 Each Passing Cloud 450 Rhyme
02/24/2023 Spring Is Not All 540 Sonnet
02/24/2023 My Loving Heart Sings 465 Rhyme
02/13/2023 A Valentine To My Sisters In Christ 420 Rhyme
01/28/2023 Dear Heart 448 Rhyme
01/24/2023 The Little Hand 284 Rhyme
01/10/2023 Answered Prayer 363 Sonnet
01/05/2023 The Hibernating Muse 249 Rhyme
12/29/2022 Preference For a Farm 347 Rhyme
12/01/2022 The Drunken Stain 432 Rhyme
11/26/2022 Don'T Quit Your Daydream 416 Quatrain
11/25/2022 Most Beautiful Christmas Poem 424 Quatrain
11/12/2022 Sunshine In Their Youthful Morning Song 478 Villanelle
11/10/2022 Proverbial Thought 286 Rhyme
11/09/2022 The Only Star For Me 380 Rhyme
11/09/2022 December Hemispheres 304 Quatrain
10/22/2022 Bittersweet Memories' Song 724 Terza Rima
10/21/2022 A Graceful Blessing 298 Quintain (Sicilian)
10/17/2022 A Season of Tyrants 404 Quintain (Sicilian)
10/17/2022 No Poem As Lovely 398 Free verse
10/16/2022 Passages 285 Free verse
10/11/2022 Night Song Couplet 468 Couplet
10/07/2022 Suffer the Children 357 Rhyme
10/02/2022 Autumn's Found 236 Monorhyme
10/01/2022 With Murder As Its Name 399 Quatrain
09/29/2022 A Father's Love 319 Sonnet
09/26/2022 Awakening 424 Rhyme
09/26/2022 Recovery 312 Ottava rima
09/23/2022 Sonnet To Connie 410 Sonnet
09/20/2022 I Wandered Lonely As An Orphan 630 Rhyme
09/20/2022 The Spirit Man 495 Rhyme
09/10/2022 When Mother Cries 539 Rhyme
08/02/2022 New Day 510 Rhyme
07/28/2022 It Don'T Mean a Thing 732 Rhyme
07/25/2022 The Human Side 462 Rhyme
07/22/2022 The Divine Gift 581 Rhyme
07/20/2022 Leaning From Attraction To Fool's Gold 540 Free verse
06/25/2022 The Cycle 443 Quatrain
06/22/2022 Farewell South Carolina 838 Quatrain
06/22/2022 Unequally Yoked 458 Quatrain
06/20/2022 Feeling Safe 410 Rhyme
06/20/2022 His Final Cries 502 Rhyme
05/26/2022 Final Lessons 511 Free verse
05/26/2022 A Bee's Day 444 Rhyme
05/26/2022 You Don'T Call Me Baby Anymore 492 Monorhyme
04/13/2022 My Name Is Still Thompson 380 Rhyme
03/26/2022 Quiet Forests 450 Couplet
03/20/2022 Shot Glass 405 Rhyme
11/30/2021 The Twin Oak 377 Rhyme
11/30/2021 November Quatrain 467 Quatrain
11/19/2021 Agendaless Exuberance 344 Dizain
11/10/2021 Natural High 293 Rhyme
11/01/2021 Autumn Hush 284 Free verse
10/26/2021 The Dance 326 Rhyme
10/16/2021 The Picnic 437 Quatrain
10/13/2021 Free 232 Quatern
10/13/2021 An Autumn Move 335 Rhyme
09/23/2021 Memories Beautiful 499 Free verse
09/21/2021 They Are Not Called Dreadlocks 333 Quintain (Sicilian)
08/31/2021 Reflections 421 Free verse
08/27/2021 The Iron Lung, Fear Transcendence 515 Free verse
08/25/2021 Essence of Autumn 412 Verse
08/15/2021 The Twin Oak 242 Rhyme
07/14/2021 South Carolina Trees 373 Monorhyme
06/09/2021 New Age 580 Free verse
06/09/2021 Summer Speaks 325 Rhyme
06/08/2021 Grace For Home Hunting 594 Rhyme
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Quotes

Quote Left Expect nothing. Quote Right
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Quote Left Don't hope. Then you'll never know disappointment. Quote Right
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Quote Left Jesus was single. Quote Right
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Quote Left Don't try to bring back yesterday. It will find you anyhow. Quote Right
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Quote Left Some people will follow anything even if it isn't going anywhere. Quote Right
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Quote Left The heartbeat of poetry is iambic pentameter. Quote Right
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Janis Thompson is a retired educator whose career involved teaching high school English, being a reading specialist and an administrator.   She is a mother and a grandmother of two who has been writing poetry since childhood.  Janis has a Bachelor's Degree from Juniata College and a Master's from Johns Hopkins University.  She enjoys watching vintage movies.


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