by Nora Hutton Shepard | Aug 26, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Left Box, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS At the Top of the Hill – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard a woman in sensible shoes wrestles a step ladder to the middle of the road among a gaggle of children. She climbs the clanking swaying metal and balances on the very top rung. She’s the...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jun 25, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS “Omens,” a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard All day long the cardinal beats againstmy windows. Don’t think the scarlet red-flash;he’s perched, he’s stately on the garden walldressed in his plumage as though for holy rites. He’s on...
by Marguerite Williams | Jun 11, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Today Is All We Have – a Poem by Jody Seymour Don’t look to the pastit is not thereand the future is awind youcannot hold But today is in your graspa gift for the holdingCaress its invitingpossibility of “now”Do not waste its offeringIt desires...
by D.G. Martin | May 21, 2024 | Bottom Middle Box, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Ukraine, Gaza, and St Crispian’s Day Ukraine and Gaza are much different. But they share some common challenges. Both are being attacked by well-armed, powerful enemies who are determined to defeat them. Their attackers have ruthlessly engaged them,...
by Ann Campanella | Apr 30, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS 2024 College Grads Led the Way Through COVID A friend recently reminded me on Facebook that this year’s college graduating class is the first one to have had their senior year of high school interrupted by the pandemic. Not only that, but many of them...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Apr 30, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS The Hike I couldn’t keep up—our steep Blue Ridge climb.You would pull ahead,disappear around the turn,while I labored behindout of breath to make the curve,the scroll of the path.But then, there you werecarving our initials into a tree. This happened...
