LINGERING VISIT WITH EMILY D.
TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL IT SLANT -- #1263 Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm...
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J.C. Weil
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YOUR PRIVATE MOMENTS WITH EMILY DICKINSON
Here without analysis, counting of feet, nor rhythm and rhyme, are five of Emily’s poems for you to sit with and ponder, if you wish....
J.C. Weil
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Our Glass For Two Sisters
In its fullness like time itself the hour glass holds lazy sand moving in languorous sashay a young unhurried thing intent on the moment...
J.C. Weil
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EARLY LOOKING BACK
And, sometimes with a whoosh! at others with an oosh, glub sog the year went to its dying. What had graced its days, what burdens the...
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MOVING TO THE COUNTRY
Alone and naked in the sun where a full length mirror tells the truth of time, I wonder if--alone and naked in the sun of our...
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Navigating Your Life
Meeting change and sorrow with grace, appreciation, courage, and sometimes a change in attitude. TAKING STOCK Years are measured by the...
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Excerpt from The April Book
July 1, 2022 COMPARISON From The April Book by Jennifer C. Weil An unedited diary of at least one poem per day, from April 5,1984 trough...
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Part Two: IS WRITING POETRY AN ACT OF INSPIRATION OR OF CRAFT?
CRAFTING THE POEM Take a look at my Push Broom “exercise” poem from the previous post: Push Broom If patient like the ancient push broom...
J.C. Weil
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Part One: IS WRITING POETRY AN ACT OF INSPIRATION OR OF CRAFT?
So, you don’t know your anapest from your Budapest, your meter from your liter, you’re your Caesura from a salad. If it’s terminology you...
J.C. Weil
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An Homage to Stephen Vincent Benet's Poem "Nightmare Number Three"
An Homage to Stephen Vincent Benet's Poem "Nightmare Number Three"
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