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09/18/2025 Our Claim to Fame 24 Narrative
09/18/2025 flashku 23 Haiku
09/14/2025 Enshrined 40 Narrative
09/07/2025 Small Acts 53 List
09/06/2025 senyru 491 Senryu
09/04/2025 haiku 835 Haiku
08/31/2025 The Cat's Story 132 Narrative
08/24/2025 When I Took the Old Way to Ames 146 Narrative
08/17/2025 Telling my Friend about the Sky 79 Narrative
08/10/2025 After Rain, I'm Left with an August Day 112 Free verse
08/03/2025 Night of the James Taylor Concert during Freshman Year at College 275 Free verse
07/27/2025 Petrichor 81 Free verse
07/21/2025 Prior to Intent 127 Free verse
07/13/2025 The Beat of My Heart 182 Narrative
07/06/2025 At My Leisure 59 Other
07/02/2025 Soft Voices 127 Other
06/29/2025 Poem for The Black Hills 84 Free verse
06/22/2025 My Last Day in Ogalala 135 Free verse
06/15/2025 Rain and Sun 157 Sonnet
06/08/2025 Gathering of Poets 202 Free verse
06/01/2025 Around the Next Turn 150 Free verse
05/25/2025 The Traveler Card 184 Free verse
05/22/2025 as we metamorphose 150 Free verse
05/21/2025 The Song is my Superpower 172 Free verse
05/18/2025 The First Day of the Rest of Your Life 253 Free verse
05/11/2025 A Guide to Flagging and Traffic Control Near the End of Construction Season 176 Other
05/11/2025 At the End of the Road, At the End of the Day 206 Other
05/04/2025 My Calling at an Intersection along IA 136 236 Free verse
04/27/2025 Song of April 305 Other
04/22/2025 April 227 Other
04/15/2025 haiku 339 Haiku
04/13/2025 If Not For 247 Other
04/06/2025 Sunday at my Leisure 464 Free verse
03/30/2025 Planting 306 Free verse
03/23/2025 Out the Back Door 235 Free verse
03/16/2025 after a winter of loss 164 Free verse
03/16/2025 Small Town Portraits 165 Haibun
03/09/2025 Light as I Get up on the First Day of Spring 396 Free verse
03/02/2025 In with a Song, Out with a Measure of Silence 342 Sonnet
02/23/2025 The Sky 215 Free verse
02/22/2025 Mind of the Heart 195 Free verse
02/16/2025 Southern Exposure 518 Free verse
02/09/2025 Near Solitude 164 Free verse
02/02/2025 Poet in the House 444 Free verse
01/26/2025 Snow Day 316 Free verse
01/12/2025 Conjuring the Lives of Paul McCartney and The Beatles 429 Free verse
01/08/2025 Keeping Score 461 Free verse
01/03/2025 Byways in Wisconsin 308 Haibun
01/01/2025 December 31, as Rain Turns into Snow 500 Free verse
12/29/2024 Happy Returns 291 Free verse
12/22/2024 Like Stars and Dreams 248 Free verse
12/18/2024 Courtyard in Back 423 Other
12/08/2024 The Ghost of Summer Returns 197 Free verse
12/01/2024 Ode to Door County 358 Ode
11/28/2024 haiku 428 Haiku
11/22/2024 Within Dreams 280 Free verse
11/18/2024 Avenue 269 Free verse
11/10/2024 Reflections of Stillness 392 Sonnet
11/01/2024 Looking Outside the Upstairs Window, and It's All Saints Day 418 Free verse
10/30/2024 Animating Innate Vibrance 275 Verse
10/28/2024 Reconciliation 537 Free verse
10/16/2024 Moment of Realization 524 Other
10/09/2024 A Fellow Poet Wrote Her Obit In 2020 426 Free verse
10/04/2024 Home 146 Verse
09/29/2024 Inside the Looking Glass 298 Free verse
09/26/2024 Summer into Fall 235 Verse
09/20/2024 Night after I Sing 220 Verse
09/16/2024 one day at a time 386 Verse
09/15/2024 Soupsters Online 219 Free verse
09/07/2024 September Sixth with a Whisper 221 Other
09/04/2024 September Fourth 279 Free verse
09/01/2024 the lost and found department 259 Couplet
08/20/2024 The Cost of Living 739 Free verse
08/09/2024 Duck Creek 351 Free verse
08/02/2024 August Ghazal 306 Ghazal
07/25/2024 senryu 263 Senryu
07/18/2024 The Machine 267 Free verse
07/13/2024 Metamorphosis 305 Free verse
07/05/2024 In and Out of Love 378 Verse
07/02/2024 Five Years after the Last Flagging Assignment 340 Free verse
06/18/2024 The Shape of Things to Come 394 Narrative
06/16/2024 Choosing a Ballad for the Karaoke Contest 345 Pantoum
06/14/2024 My Better Angels 196 Free verse
06/04/2024 Letter to Poetry Soup 392 Free verse
06/02/2024 The Other Side of the Mirror 241 Free verse
05/21/2024 Stirrings 178 Verse
05/15/2024 Misti 393 Sonnet
05/14/2024 Rain on Tuesday 232 Verse
05/12/2024 Morning from Shadows 257 Free verse
05/10/2024 After Karaoke 402 Verse
05/07/2024 Apparitions 299 Cinquain
05/02/2024 My Best Day 271 Free verse
04/16/2024 Goodbye to the Meadowlark 287 Free verse
04/05/2024 Before I Write a Love Poem 279 Sonnet
03/26/2024 Clouds, Rain and Winds of March 322 Verse
03/12/2024 March 555 List
03/01/2024 March First 264 Verse
02/16/2024 Beatles Mike 316 Alliteration
02/08/2024 Flagger- PS 472 Free verse
02/07/2024 The Morning of My Dreams 578 Verse
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Quote Left Sometimes you have to parent the adults you know. Quote Right
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