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Here’s What I’m Thinking

Posted on September 27, 2014 by labeak52

It’s been great fun putting up poems  and prose paragraphs day after day.  It’s a lot more fun when I get good feedback – “likes” and comments.  I guess this whole blogging game is a bit too random to expect … Continue reading →

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Morning Poem, August 18, 2014

Posted on August 18, 2014 by labeak52

Late Night   Sleepless at one-thirty I rise and open a window for a draught of real air. It is silent outside, I’ve outlasted even the crickets and cicadas. Street lamps, one near and one far make crosses of light … Continue reading →

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The Characteristics of Modern Poets #12

Posted on August 17, 2014 by labeak52

The mystic, having once seen the truth, is patient and brave.  For him, there is no worship of counterfeit gold and no fear of counterfeit power.

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The Last Rose Of Summer

Posted on August 16, 2014 by labeak52

The people who first lived in this house were aristocrats. Even their women were college educated and this in a day when girls around here got married and that was it. I remember hearing my uncle talk about them. He … Continue reading →

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Evening Post, August 14. 2014

Posted on August 14, 2014 by labeak52

A memoir: a prose poem It is always August.  There was something in those thirty days under the Dog Star that seemed permanent and everlasting.   The weeks in June and July had been long enough to dim the memory of … Continue reading →

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Evening Post, August 13, 2014: Excerpt from Novel

Posted on August 13, 2014 by labeak52

This evening’s post is a passage from my novel,In The Forest Of The Night. It is a description of a state trooper (who is investigating a murder) driving from the rural coalfields of southern West Virginia to the State Capital. … Continue reading →

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Characteristics of Modern Poets: #1

Posted on August 8, 2014 by labeak52

A modern poet must be precise enough to be obscure in the right places.

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