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Baby Bud by Julie Bonderov

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Baby Bud
Small, green,
Inconspicuous. 
Hard, tight,
Pattern interlocked.
Pregnant with…?
Growth and change
Expanding openness
Feathery fragility
Layers of ripples and folds
Attention-catching color
Scent of spicy sweetness

Julie Bonderov is a voracious reader who enjoys children, animals, music and color. She is an RN who has worked in local hospitals in pediatrics and as a school nurse. She enjoys encountering other cultures, languages and cuisine. Julie collects how to say, “Don’t cry.” in other languages.

Forgotten & Remembered by Jennette Green

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Forgotten

Parched flowers melt into
A puddle of soft velvet
Lapping broken earth


Remembered

Drops soak into loam
Engorging stems, leaves, petals
Rise to taste the sun

Jennette Green writes sweet romance with a touch of spice. She fell in love with writing as a child and filled notebooks with stories. Her books have received “Reader’s Favorite Hero,” “Reviewer’s Choice Award” and more. She writes contemporary, historical, sci-fi and fantasy romance

Sparkling Like Dust by Dianne Buxton

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I’ve ended up closer to Death Valley than to
The cornucopia fields of San Joaquin
Even though I’ve said I’m halfway between them
I’m sliding down the sandy slopes eastward,
After two plus years in isolation, I’m in the desert
Where word-devils spin my poems up
Into the blinding sunlight which hurts my
Pale blue eyes that linger away from the blank page.
So much to write about – relief fund fraud, rents doubling
Legal loopholes that spiral out to lasso the edge-walkers
The opportunists, and survivors of poverty, laziness, bad luck, razors
Because if you understand the system there is more bounty
If you can’t climb up to the high road you don’t take it
I’m fortunate to be a spectator of this bottom feeding
And write about it, and whine about how the tiny tornadoes
Steal my words, up and away, even as they sparkle in the dust.

Dianne M. Buxton’s poetry can be seen in Poemicglobal, Caveat Lector, The Griffin, Sanskrit, and The Pathway To The Heart anthology . A graduate of the National Ballet School of Canada and an alumni of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in NYC, she retired from performance and teaching in the dance world and now writes.

Love Letters in the Sand by Khalil Gibran

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“True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the body, just as life
springs from the kernel of a stone and
gives color and scent to a flower.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.

Poem by Langston Hughes

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Being walkers with the dawn and morning
Walkers with the sun and morning, 
We are not afraid of night, 
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness, 
Being walkers with the sun and morning. 

Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright. He is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance.