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"Change" by James Dillet Freeman

12/31/2023

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"Snow Geese in Flight" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
I have resisted change with all my will …
Cried out to life, “Pass by life and leave me still.”
But I have found as I have trudged time’s track
That all my wishing will not hold life back.
I cannot bid the merest moment “stay.”
So finding I have no power to change
I have changed my self. And this is strange.
But I have found when I let change come,
The very change that I was fleeing from
Has often held the good I had prayed for,
And I was not the less for change, but more.
Once I accepted life and was not loathe to change
I found change was the seed of growth.
~James Dillet Freeman
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"Poetry" by Gail Mahr

12/29/2023

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"Jack Frost's Magic" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
Poetry

A poem waltzes
the interrupted line dividing the freeway.
flayed dancer
to mum music,
Cars swoop past on one side of the road,
Hulking ghostly relics of past lives
on the other.

~Gail Mahr
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"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon."  ~Deborah Whipp

12/24/2023

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"Christmas - 1965" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
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Christmas Eve contemplation...

12/24/2023

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"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"

12/16/2023

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"A Snowy Night in the Village" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • ~Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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"December, Acting Like March" by Gail Mahr

12/1/2023

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"December Memories" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
December, Acting Like March

Around piles of gutted grain
three-fingered duck tracks knit lace of the flimsy snow.
On the hill
sled skids magnify the lace
into giant curtains.
Clots of leaves, rake's refugees
wait in frozen sugar at the mouths of streets.

The sky wears only a sweater of gray
Not the stout wool layers of January.
Shovel's rasp on concrete, a sound of storm
is missing today.
We could almost lose our minds with Spring
yet
Like butter on Sunday morning toast
this snow will relax into the warm earth
Before winter scowls.

~Gail Mahr
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