Yesterday was one of those days where I couldn’t get anything to work…
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Poetry
夢の歌 [Yume no uta] (Dream song) (a poem)
I heard a great song in my dreams last night. Too bad I can’t remember it now…
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Grounds (a poem)
Ah, coffee! Tasty and inspiring…
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Migraine (a poem)
I noticed a headache developing yesterday while writing my Lament for the Dead poem. Around 5:30 p.m., I finally realized that it was probably a migraine…
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My Lanent for the Dead poem has been posted
The poem I wrote for Lament for the Dead is now online. Here is the link: http://www.lamentforthedead.org/poems/2015/6/20/santos-laboy-45-boston-ma.
(21 June 2015)
Writing for the Lament for the Dead project
About fifteen minutes ago, I submitted my poem for the Lament for the Dead project.
For those of you unfamiliar with the project, the web site states:
Lament for the Dead is an online community poetry project which will mark the death of every person killed by police this summer, and every police officer who loses life in the line of duty, with a poem.
Morning rain (a poem)
It rained last night and this morning…
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I have questions (a poem)
Some of the questions that came to mind yesterday…
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An observation (a poem)
I wrote this poem last month after watching Selma, but it is something I have been thinking for quite some time—especially when I stop to consider that many of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s that most of us view as mere history took place within my lifetime…
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Islands are bodies of land surrounded on all sides by water (a poem)
Yes, I have been watching Lost again…
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Ordinary Average Thoughts 