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04/23/2024 To which image should we cling? 58 Quatrain
04/01/2024 I Wish I Had 53 Rhyme
03/28/2024 Ocean City Dream 385 Rhyme
02/16/2024 The Natural Order 72 Etheree
02/10/2024 THERE IS A DARKNESS 84 Rhyme
02/03/2024 Fulfillment 127 Rhyme
01/30/2024 The Human Puzzle 89 Rhyme
01/30/2024 Can We Say, Science Fiction Anymore? 160 Free verse
01/29/2024 Organic Balm 71 Sonnet
01/22/2024 Awaking from Stupor 124 Sonnet
01/22/2024 To the Brother Keepers 132 Free verse
01/17/2024 How Great A Box 126 Rhyme
01/13/2024 The Mighty Pines 104 Quatrain
01/11/2024 The Chosen Landing 82 Quatrain
01/11/2024 Silver Dawn 56 Rhyme
01/08/2024 Sipping Coffee 88 Quatrain
01/07/2024 The Steel Box 45 Quatrain
01/02/2024 God's Got Our Back 156 Free verse
08/10/2023 Evening Prayer 141 Kyrielle
08/10/2023 We Are the Kingdom 129 Rhyme
08/03/2023 Morning Prayer Sonnet 94 Sonnet
06/11/2023 Endless Promise 142 Free verse
06/11/2023 Slow Death 123 Sonnet
05/08/2023 Rose Meadow 517 Free verse
05/08/2023 On the Passing of Grannie 512 Ode
05/07/2023 Psalm 2023 538 Couplet
04/03/2023 To Rolling Fork, Mississippi 422 Sonnet
03/20/2023 Victor's Dance 450 Rhyme
03/06/2023 Each Passing Cloud 442 Rhyme
02/24/2023 Spring Is Not All 531 Sonnet
02/24/2023 My Loving Heart Sings 453 Rhyme
02/13/2023 A Valentine To My Sisters In Christ 406 Rhyme
01/28/2023 Dear Heart 441 Rhyme
01/24/2023 The Little Hand 276 Rhyme
01/10/2023 Answered Prayer 348 Sonnet
01/05/2023 The Hibernating Muse 234 Rhyme
12/29/2022 Preference For a Farm 335 Rhyme
12/01/2022 The Drunken Stain 418 Rhyme
11/26/2022 Don'T Quit Your Daydream 408 Quatrain
11/25/2022 Most Beautiful Christmas Poem 414 Quatrain
11/12/2022 Sunshine In Their Youthful Morning Song 450 Villanelle
11/10/2022 Proverbial Thought 273 Rhyme
11/09/2022 The Only Star For Me 359 Rhyme
11/09/2022 December Hemispheres 297 Quatrain
10/22/2022 Bittersweet Memories' Song 711 Terza Rima
10/21/2022 A Graceful Blessing 280 Quintain (Sicilian)
10/17/2022 A Season of Tyrants 383 Quintain (Sicilian)
10/17/2022 No Poem As Lovely 389 Free verse
10/16/2022 Passages 276 Free verse
10/11/2022 Night Song Couplet 457 Couplet
10/07/2022 Suffer the Children 338 Rhyme
10/02/2022 Autumn's Found 229 Monorhyme
10/01/2022 With Murder As Its Name 392 Quatrain
09/29/2022 A Father's Love 310 Sonnet
09/26/2022 Awakening 415 Rhyme
09/26/2022 Recovery 302 Ottava rima
09/23/2022 Sonnet To Connie 399 Sonnet
09/20/2022 I Wandered Lonely As An Orphan 614 Rhyme
09/20/2022 The Spirit Man 485 Rhyme
09/10/2022 When Mother Cries 533 Rhyme
08/02/2022 New Day 502 Rhyme
07/28/2022 It Don'T Mean a Thing 712 Rhyme
07/25/2022 The Human Side 443 Rhyme
07/22/2022 The Divine Gift 511 Rhyme
07/20/2022 Leaning From Attraction To Fool's Gold 530 Free verse
06/25/2022 The Cycle 434 Quatrain
06/22/2022 Farewell South Carolina 823 Quatrain
06/22/2022 Unequally Yoked 450 Quatrain
06/20/2022 Feeling Safe 400 Rhyme
06/20/2022 His Final Cries 491 Rhyme
05/26/2022 Final Lessons 499 Free verse
05/26/2022 A Bee's Day 435 Rhyme
05/26/2022 You Don'T Call Me Baby Anymore 479 Monorhyme
04/13/2022 My Name Is Still Thompson 369 Rhyme
03/26/2022 Quiet Forests 439 Couplet
03/20/2022 Shot Glass 393 Rhyme
11/30/2021 The Twin Oak 368 Rhyme
11/30/2021 November Quatrain 457 Quatrain
11/19/2021 Agendaless Exuberance 335 Dizain
11/10/2021 Natural High 284 Rhyme
11/01/2021 Autumn Hush 276 Free verse
10/26/2021 The Dance 310 Rhyme
10/16/2021 The Picnic 427 Quatrain
10/13/2021 Free 226 Quatern
10/13/2021 An Autumn Move 325 Rhyme
09/23/2021 Memories Beautiful 488 Free verse
09/21/2021 They Are Not Called Dreadlocks 321 Quintain (Sicilian)
08/31/2021 Reflections 412 Free verse
08/27/2021 The Iron Lung, Fear Transcendence 503 Free verse
08/25/2021 Essence of Autumn 401 Verse
08/15/2021 The Twin Oak 233 Rhyme
07/14/2021 South Carolina Trees 359 Monorhyme
06/09/2021 New Age 558 Free verse
06/09/2021 Summer Speaks 315 Rhyme
06/08/2021 Grace For Home Hunting 584 Rhyme
05/30/2021 Lifeprints 264 Free verse
05/23/2021 Tomorrow Speaks 595 Free verse
05/20/2021 Transformation 296 Triolet
05/18/2021 Unconquerable 269 Rhyme
05/16/2021 Seeds 629 Quatrain
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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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