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[caption id="attachment_6885" align="alignright" width="150"] Rev. George S. Delano[/caption] Poetry can reveal personal histories, providing much about authors and their lives, and at times, events surrounding certain poems and recipient(s). These...

[caption id="attachment_14244" align="alignright" width="150"] "The Muse," Henry Martin, WikiArt.[/caption] Where poetic voices originate is a curious question, with potentially as many answers as poets (writers) themselves. Lest they vanish into...

Poetry is my life, and my life is poetry… [caption id="attachment_12303" align="alignright" width="150"] "Summer pilgrimage to Grand Manan Island..."[/caption] To readers of my poetry, please accept grateful “Thank-You!” You have...

[caption id="attachment_13547" align="alignright" width="150"] Altamura Krater, Walters Art Museum, Wikipedia.[/caption] Altamura – In poetry or prose, when dialogue of two characters merge as one. Typically, one is living, the other...

Maine lobstermen having breakfast, interaction with the waitress... “Do you have raisin bread left?” “We’re done with raisin bread.” “Coffee?” “Heard her come in last night.” “Make-n-break, one lunger.” “Two-mast schooner,...

[caption id="attachment_5932" align="alignright" width="150"] Inupiat Family from Noatak, Alaska, 1929, Edward S. Curtis, Wikimedia photo.[/caption] In a recent blog, I wrote about transient poetic characters. This post pertains to enduring...

[caption id="attachment_12076" align="alignright" width="150"] "Classical Beauty," John William Godward, WikiArt photo.[/caption] Between poems, I oft consider ephemeral nature of poetic characters, who and what they are, (not necessarily where they...

Poetry is my life, and my life is poetry. [caption id="attachment_8890" align="alignright" width="150"] "Calliope," by Joseph Fagnani, 1869, Wikimedia photo.[/caption] Clear-voice muses were loud and true during 2015. With readers...

[caption id="attachment_6761" align="alignright" width="150"] "The Wrath of Achilles," Michel Drolling, 1819, Wikipedia photo.[/caption] On this winter morning when the sea is galing wild and sand is streaking on the beach,...

[caption id="attachment_4883" align="alignright" width="150"] "Temple of Athena Nike," Werner Carl-Freidrich, watercolour, 1877, Wikimedia photo.[/caption] Last year was a poetry-productive year, as I wrote ~ 280 poems. This review will focus...