Best Relayed Poems

I'm thinking after talking 
to a dear friend about the death,
call it a passing, of his father,
about channels of communication,
of sorrow and too, channels of joy.

All the messages lining the county,
the state, a nation, even globe
like a satin-sheen of supple cloth
inside of the casket and...

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Caught up in the great “I don’t know,”
my mind refused to learn

Moving into the “Maybe so,”
my thoughts began to turn

Morphing through each “To and fro,”
the options marked my days

Spreading what was “Mine to sow”
—epiphany relayed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)...

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M-essage 
A-s 
R-elayed 
I-s 
A-iming 

T-o 
E-xpress 
R-egards 
E-ighteenth 
S-unny 
A-ugust 

A-s 
R-ays 
C-learly 
E-rase 
G-ray 
A-tmosphere 

Topic: Birthday of Maria Teresa G. Arcega (August 18) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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M-essages
A-re
R-elayed
I-n
E-xcellent
L-ine's

G-reetings
A-s
L-etters
L-et
A-ll
R-egards
D-enote
O-penness

Topic: Birthday of Mariel Gallardo (February 02)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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