Sunday, August 31, 2014

This is my first post on my new blog, September 25, 2014.     an entirely new experience for me.  My bio explains why I am starting a blog.  Over the weekend of September 20th I attended the semi-annual meeting of the Maine Poets’ Society (MPS) where I entered two contests and received a prize in each one. One contest was about a subject (Fences) with no restriction on form.  The other was a ballad contest with no restriction on subject.  “The Perfect...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

The second mowing, tedded, bailed, removed. The field left skinned and barren, desert like, as autumn winds blow over ancient farm  machinery scattered randomly across the meadow like the bones of dinosaurs. I wonder, will they come to life next spring in time to lime or will the timeless grass grow up around limp tires and fading paint? It depends. Will aging farmers rise from winter’s repose to mow once more, mend the snow bent fence and aid the laboring ewe, force their aching joints...
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