April 9, 2020 Song of Movement — they stand my dancers three with arms flung wide in ecstasy on dresser top to show me how to move each day — in bronze delight they do not change position – yet it seems to me from time to time...
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April 20, 2020 Ann
Poems of a Pandemic
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April 6, 2020 Trapped — I am not trapped inside my house I take my sturdy walker – walk the spacious driveway twice each day it opens up the world for me — I see forsythia yellow – bright I am not trapped inside my house each jonquil...
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April 19, 2020 Ann
Poems of a Pandemic
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April 3, 2020 Directions to My Version of Yoga “Happy Baby” — lay down flat on the bed pull knees to chest and link arms underneath them roll from side to side smile as you do it or laugh out loud do twenty rolls in all at end...
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April 18, 2020 Ann
Poems of a Pandemic
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March 31, 2020 Triple Lunacy — round – round – up and down carousel feels like every day — day is night is day again the circling never stops — whole world spins around can’t get off circling round and round — round – round – up and...
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April 17, 2020 Ann
Poems of a Pandemic
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March 28, 2020 Elegy for the Deaths — too many deaths at one time—hundreds and thousands now in this pandemic—nearly overwhelms we give tributes for one death—one death at a time over and over and over and—pray for an ending ————— March 29, 2020 Rap on The Day...
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April 16, 2020 Ann
Poems of a Pandemic
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March 25, 2020 The Day — The grayness of the day lingered. Anxiety pulsed into the edges. — Meditation struggled to calm. Masked medicals added tension to the day. — Groceries arrived with gaps. Educated added slivers of paranoia. — Walking outside glimpsed normalcy briefly. Bedtime provided cushion...
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April 15, 2020 Ann
Poems of a Pandemic
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On March 24, I started writing a poem a day, along with other writers who check in with Writer’s Digest. I didn’t think of posting them then. So I’m catching up and here are the first three. They are all written under the general title of Poems of...
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April 10, 2020 Ann
Poems of a Pandemic
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A Morning Idea Lately I have begun to recognize that in the morning I sometimes have an idea—a brainstorm. Sometimes it ends up being a dud. Sometimes I forget it in the process of starting the day. Today it was: in this time of the corona virus, when...
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March 16, 2020 Ann
Ramblings
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I’ve been writing down blessings every day since January 31, 2014. I’ve filled numerous small spiral bound notebooks and as I recorded them each night before bed, I smiled to remember the blessings. Some days I found myself struggling for something new to write, but would finally get...
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January 1, 2020 Ann
Ramblings
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Survivors The interesting thing about this song is that it started out being about women——and it still can be about women and their struggle in this country and all over the world to survive. All of the words apply to women—rough times, strong barriers, wrong rules, slow, slow...
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July 21, 2019 Ann
Music
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