tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34730565615682283802024-03-13T13:48:13.745-07:00Art of Poetry Catawba ValleyEkphrastic Poetry For Catawba Valley Artworks - The program is designed to meld poetry and art within the Unifour's museums, coffee houses, arts councils, and libraries. Subscribe and then join us to celebrate the Art of Poetry.Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-2601423649667597422020-02-02T17:00:00.000-08:002020-02-02T17:00:00.556-08:00Melissa Hager's "Love Is" after Sarah Jayne Kennedy<br />
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<span style="background: white;">by Melissa Hager<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Two of Us</i> by Sarah Jayne Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;">Drawing a line in the sand</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">to judge who's in, who's out,</span><br />
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gazing </span><br />
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<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-75607760752621272282020-01-01T03:00:00.000-08:002020-01-01T03:00:02.443-08:00Beverly Finney's "Me! Me! I Will!" after Northview Middle School Art Students<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What better way to begin a new year revolving around the sun than with the positive calls to the future in Beverly Finney's poem. She was inspired by North View Middle School's 6th grade artists who exhibited for FOUND - Art of Community at Alexander County Library in summer 2019. The student's instructor, Chris Parsons, exhibited at the library in the fall of 2019.<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Beverly Finney<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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by Northview Middle School<br />
6th Grade Students<br />
with instructor, Chris Parsons<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And who among you, my
children,<br />
will step up to change the world,<br />
make of it a better place<br />
than we left it to you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Nalaysia?<br />
And you, eye-in-your-palm, with help<br />
from cool/energetic/funny/tall?<br />
What about you, Addison R.,<br />
who might be a Capricorn like me?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Bojangles/soccer fan?<br />
And gentle kind-helpful-smart,<br />
Mahni-Inside, lacrosse/football/tennis<br />
and mi familia with Kermit the frog?<br />
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possibilities, dreams,<br />
an imaginative colorful rush of spirit.<br />
This beautiful Earth, its rainbow people,<br />
and creatures—flying, crawling, leaping—<br />
look to you to clean up the chaos<br />
of those before you, restore compassion,<br />
sharing, the celebration of different/same.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-17009811554409902642019-12-02T03:00:00.000-08:002019-12-02T03:00:03.991-08:00Beverly Finney's "Solitude" after Laura Crooks<br />
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self; solitude is the richness of self.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Take me to the
place where things grow wild,<br />
where brambles are bejeweled with berries,<br />
vines hang with sapphires of muscadines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Drop me off at the
edge of the woods<br />
where the stalwart poplars rise and the oaks,<br />
wearing skirts of dogwood in spring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Part ways with me
near the rolling pasture<br />
in which cows with languid brown eyes graze,<br />
so I can follow them to the shaded winding creek.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In such uninhabited
environs where the air<br />
is sweet and the summer rain falls freely,<br />
I will find what rests in the seed of my soul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-61490603357372524552019-11-18T03:00:00.000-08:002019-11-18T03:00:09.598-08:00Betty O'Hearn's "Homes of Crayons" after Diane Podolsky<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I grew up on a
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Each had a
personality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inside the home was
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mother taught us to
love on our neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our neighbors were
all pale until I was sixteen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The colors of the
homes outside were the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inside the homes
became colorful.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Some of our
neighbors left.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They preferred only
pale neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mother taught us
that God loved us all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">People were just
different ‘crayons’ .<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My personal preference
is different colors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My granddaughters
grew up among crayons<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of brown,
black, yellow and white.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The photograph by Cheyenne Chumley that inspired Melissa Hager's poem for the Art of Poetry Catawba Valley tour of Alexander County Library. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>by Melissa Hager<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>after <i>Home</i>
by Cheyenne Chumley<br />
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"I wish you had a dishwasher,"<br />
my mother chimes<br />
as we stare at the mound of dishes,<br />
relics from our luncheon.<br />
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"I don't mind," I tell her<br />
and I don't, as I later stand<br />
lovingly washing every plate,<br />
each wine glass and fork.<br />
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Smile at the memories made<br />
over pork barbecue, heavenly<br />
beans, coconut rum soaked<br />
ice cream with salted caramel.<br />
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I remember Dad's smug grin<br />
seizing a round of tumbling dice,<br />
daughter's gloat as she rolls<br />
over three grand,<br />
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Mom's comically dejected<br />
face of Farkle<br />
as she forfeits a straight<br />
to a die gone bad.<br />
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Grapefruit powered dish detergent<br />
scrapes away sauciness, adds<br />
to my heightened senses.<br />
A quiet revisit of the day in soapy hands.</b></span></span>Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-20323069571381716622019-10-21T03:00:00.000-07:002019-10-21T03:00:01.009-07:00Doug McHargue's "Safe Shells" after Diane Podolsky<br />
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SAFE SHELLS</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Doug McHargue<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little Pink Houses</i> by Diane Podolsky<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My mind now a gray
film,</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">but I see the
houses in pink,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">boxy and square as
the fifties<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">holding tight to
things but the color<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of Easter hats
Jackie made famous,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">pillboxes for our
heads filled<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with sedate dreams
we thought<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">she'd have, and my
A-line dress<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">pink, too, the
color of a house<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the beach where
you search<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for shells and if
lucky<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">find something big,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">almost regal with
curves<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and flourishes, and
you think<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">as long as the
creature stays<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">deep in that pink,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">safe myths live.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>by Beverly Finney<br />after Goldenrod by Shauna Caldwell<br /><br />Already, I am missing you too much,<br />regretting what I can’t retrieve.<br /> What I have, besides, are hazy memories<br /> of laughter, shared heartaches, comfort.</b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Now, I am a beggar
wishing</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">
for a winged horse I could ride</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">
into the deep hereafter</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">
in search of hours carelessly lost,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">
strike some bargain to retrieve them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In its place, I
shall climb to the stars<br />
in the dark, looking for the tall stalk<br />
of fire you have become, ethereal,<br />
now too perfect for this day-to-day world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Patricia Deaton photographed beside the Mona Woody painting that inspired her poem at Alexander County Library on July 13, 2019.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE YEAR WE LOST
OURSELVES<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Patricia Deaton<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dream Up</i> by Mona Woody<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She was gone in
March, unexpectedly.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">We collectively
missed her; </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">the mother, daughter,
wife, sister,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">cousin and
grandmother of two</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">who eventually
wouldn’t remember her at all.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Without warning, no
more of her laughter</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">or self-deprecating
humor; no one to ask </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">when her helpful
heart gave out. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">We tried to celebrate
the birthdays that came.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Without her, our
cheer rang hollow, especially </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">on her own birthday.
Then on her son’s,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">who gulped and smiled
through his bewilderment. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Easter, and the
little ones wore rabbit ears</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">hid plastic eggs, a
surprise in each. We knew </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">we would never be
surprised again by anything.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mother’s Day lasted a
thousand days.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fireworks on the 4th
lit our faces </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">hollow-eyed and
reverent in a shower of light</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">that disappeared like
sparks going out.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">On Halloween, no one
wanted to participate.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">No trick could match
Death’s trick. No treat, enough.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">We bowed to
Thanksgiving and Christmas, still</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">couldn’t say that she
had died. Instead we said</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">When she was sick</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> or <i>when that happened to her</i></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">as if she had
miraculously made it through </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and we weren’t all
changed forever.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-48519349944181238812019-09-09T03:00:00.000-07:002019-09-09T03:00:03.684-07:00Betty O'Hearn's "Touching Digits" after Chris Parsons<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TOUCHING DIGITS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by Betty O’Hearn<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">after </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Different
and Yet the Same</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
by Northview Middle School 6th Grade Students<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>with teacher Chris Parsons<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If only more of
them touched.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If only more of you
cared.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If only there was
not so much hate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need to listen
to their pain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need to reach
out.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need to show
more tenderness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It doesn’t matter
if they are strange.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It doesn’t matter
if they are soiled.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It doesn’t matter
if they are unusual.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If only we touched
each other more.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need to touch a
stranger’s digits.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just reach out, and
spread your love!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-41889822313642310082019-09-02T03:00:00.000-07:002019-09-02T03:00:04.799-07:00Melissa Hager's "Stained" after Paul Sink<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">STAINED<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Melissa Hager<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">after Paul Sink’s <i>Open Doors Lead <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"> to New Experiences
of Community</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hundreds of meals dished, donated<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trader Joe's steaks ground to make <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">meatloaf. Buttered bread, baskets <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">passed back for more. Big people, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">little people, homeless on the streets,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">community surviving day by day<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">on handouts, shared cigarettes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mary in the kitchen works<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">magic on beef, stewed cabbage,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">inch available on countertops to fill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">kitchen to clean, mats to carry<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">out and wash. Later notice stains<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">on T-shirt, pray they will wash<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">away. But they don't; meat grease<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">marks its territory for keeps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then, like grandma refusing to wash<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">window fingerprints left from grandbaby<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">visits, decide to like imperfections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Testimony for the day the body of Christ<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">was served on the streets. Of His damaged<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">hands, bloodstains, a great sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amen, amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">-for Haywood Street
Congregation, Asheville, NC</span></span></i></b>Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-21195908545650700072019-08-26T03:00:00.000-07:002019-08-26T03:00:03.358-07:00Courtney Gant's "Why Creativity?" after hannah grace<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">WHY CREATIVITY?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Courtney Gant<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Don’t Forget To Dream</i> by hannah grace<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because my feelings are<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">As a river<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flowing through and through<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because my life is
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">And my soul is the quill,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dripping in ink<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because my mind is<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Words, words,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, so many words<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because my aspirations<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lie within the very craft<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of a word, a note, a stroke<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because I am<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">A communicative being<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">And those surrounding me
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because I connect<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">With others through things<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opposite from the
superficial<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ask me, “why creativity?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-64381477441583682772019-08-19T05:31:00.000-07:002019-08-19T05:31:28.530-07:00Doug McHargue's "Blackberry Nation" after Laura Crooks<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Doug McHargue photographed at the July 13, 2019 tour of Alexander County Library and FOUND: The Art of Community exhibit curated by Miranda Burgin. The photograph that inspired her work was taken by library director, Laura Crooks.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">BLACKBERRY
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Doug
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">after </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">One for
Solitude </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">by
Laura Crooks<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ready
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">anemic
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in a
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now my
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">are
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">inching
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">crawling
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">chainsawed,
bulldozed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a
blackberry nation rising,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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the river, Catawba running<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with
its secret pouring<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">into a
front yard near you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-19744338872941404742019-08-07T03:00:00.000-07:002019-08-07T03:00:05.878-07:00Ann Chandonnet's "Wet Clover" after Eric Schumacher<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Artist Eric Schumacher joined the tour of FOUND - Art of Community at Alexander County Library on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Eric's photograph inspired one of Art of Poetry's first contributing poets, Ann Chandonnet who now lives in Missouri, to share this poem from afar.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">WET
CLOVER<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Ann
Chandonnet<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Water Bubbles </i>by Eric Schumacher</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My Mom
was born on a 13th in August.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She
always considered it her lucky day,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">no
matter the month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She
enjoyed sitting under the maples <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">shading
the front lawn<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">looking
for four-leaf clovers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She had
little patience with her five kids<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">but
lots for clovers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Farming
is a hard life,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">which
did not agree with Mom<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">who
preferred sun bathing<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in
skimpy halters<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to
weeding corn,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">canning
jars of staples<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">or
slinging bales of hay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So
although she had bid<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for
this farm life,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">she
left, hovered<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">elsewhere;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">looked
for four-leafed clovers elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">None of
us accompanied her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-36184954896680208192019-07-28T22:00:00.000-07:002019-07-28T22:00:06.052-07:00Beverly Finney's "Found" after Vickie Jo Franks<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Beverly Finney photographed on tour at Alexander County Library, </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">July 13, 2019</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">. Her</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> poem was inspired by a Vickie Jo Frank's collage. The exhibit </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">FOUND - Art of Community, curated by Miranda Burgin, will be on display until August 2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">FOUND<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Beverly
Finney<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">A Pilgrim’s Song</span></i> by Vickie Jo Franks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What of those who
live <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">found</span></i> lives,<br />
cobbled together from the scraps and refuse<br />
discarded by those who have too much,<br />
piecing a bare-knuckles tapestry of survival?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Intrepid scavengers
with eyes that see<br />
in a different light, creative imaginations<br />
full of new visions for what’s tossed aside,<br />
clever hands, forging hearts fashioning anew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">How rich are they
in fierce attention<br />
to the overlooked, in the satisfaction<br />
of self-sufficiency, the prayer of gratitude,<br />
the tiny fragments of beauty, hope and joy?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-37340722319226029332019-07-16T11:33:00.000-07:002019-07-16T11:34:47.195-07:00Patricia Deaton's "First Things, First" after hannah grace<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Art of Poetry Catawba Valley's Patricia Deaton emulates the painting by hannah grace that inspired her poem. Poets toured Alexander County Library's FOUND - Art of Community exhibit on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Curated by library board trustee chair, Miranda Burgin, the collection was procured from local and regional artists, photographers. The artworks and poetry will be on display until August 2.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">FIRST THINGS, FIRST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">by Patricia Deaton<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not Your Babe</i> by hannah grace</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">With a flash, that
day comes back.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Eyelids lifted
gently, one at a time </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">by one small finger;
a small face, close. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Light seeps in-through
a window </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">full of sky so blue,
you worry;</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">not about things that
might happen, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">but things that might
not.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Her first April
Fools, brown eyes wide,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">there is salt in the
sugar bowl.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Spit-cereal with the
first spoonful</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">then laughter fits;
wonder at the kind of mind</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">that even came up
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We ate sliced-off
ends of the <i>pan blanco,</i></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">bread carefully-made,
though overworked </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">the night before; her
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">from a country where
a little means a lot.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">At the top of the
school steps</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">butchered bread held
upright, resolve slipping,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">plastic wrap unfurls
itself from the loaf</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">and flutters like the
flag of a fallen land.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">What valor to stand
that first day</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">and wave the loaf,
then hand it</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">to someone who swings
open a door.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Join us on our next tour of art through ekphrastic poetry beginning at 2 pm at Alexander County Library. The address is 77 1st Avenue SW in Taylorsville. It is free and open to the public to attend the readings. </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Art of
Poetry Catawba Valley melds art and writing in the form of ekphrastic poetry
throughout the Unifour. Our next tour will be at Alexander County Library in
Taylorsville, NC exploring collective artworks and photography for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FOUND – Art of Community.</i> The exhibit
will display through the months of June and July 2019. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Works will
be available to peruse Friday, June 7 after 5 pm. The public is invited for an Art After Hours reception for the exhibit on Friday, June 21 from 6-7:30 pm. For other
hours at the library, visit alexanderlibrary.org.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">To submit,
simply go to Alexander County Library and write poems about the works on
exhibit. The submission deadline is midnight, July 7, 2019. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Readings will be July 13, 2019 beginning at 2
pm in the library. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Selected
poetry will be posted beside the artworks for this tour at Alexander County
Library. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Submissions
should:<br />
-include name of the artist and the title of the inspiring work<br />
-be typed in the body of an email (please send attachments if line breaks do
not translate)<br />
-be sent to Melissa Hager at </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">artofpoetrycv@gmail.com</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
-Art of Poetry CV will use no more than 3 poems per individual poet<br />
-Art of Poetry CV reserves the right to decline work that may not be appropriate
in content. Poems that are overtly political or religious in nature, or poems
that are not appropriate for all ages, will not be considered for this program.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Approximately
20 poems will be selected to be read by the author (or substitute reader) at
the reading. After the reading, with permission of the poet and artist, poems
will be posted on the Art of Poetry Catawba Valley website at </span></b><a href="http://www.artofpoetrycv.blogspot.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">http://www.artofpoetrycv.blogspot.com</span></b></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The reading is free and
open to the public.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-26032515217189894992019-05-12T10:48:00.000-07:002019-05-12T10:48:15.692-07:00Brenda Smith's "Dear Carl" after Roger Lee Ivens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Brenda Smith photographed in Hickory Museum of Art on October 13, 2018.</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DEAR
CARL—When I can’t get my head above the earth <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Brenda Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">after <i>Sun
and Hands </i>by Roger Lee Ivens<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
least I can raise my arms.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My
hands with the all-seeing eyes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">yearn
to look at the too-brilliant sun<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">grasp
for the laden sky<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">full of
simultaneous sun and stars.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is this
what happens when you use your hands to see?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A fresh
scope and slant on the universe<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">heavens
green, then briefly blue<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fading
into shades of autumn<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as the
light penetrates the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is this
the origin of the seasons then,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
angle of the eyes of our hands<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as we
stretch toward the light?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We look
backwards to look forward<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and we
truly see.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I reach
North, eyes averted<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and for
the first time<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">see the
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
thousand times past<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">squinting
at her face<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">yet
only when I shift and choose another angle<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do I
notice that all-seeing eye.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sun,
you cosmic know-it-all.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-25741985361731259262019-02-24T03:00:00.000-08:002019-02-24T03:00:06.134-08:00Ethan Hoge's "Evil Bunnies" after Momoyo Torimitsu<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Art of Poetry Catawba Valley's Patricia Deaton shares the sinister poem of Ethan Hoge at the October 13, 2018 tour of Hickory Museum of Art. </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">EVIL BUNNIES<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Ethan Hoge<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After <i>Somehow I
Don’t Feel Comfortable</i> by Momoyo Torimitsu<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rabbits are big<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am extremely
disturbed<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">First cute, then
evil<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their pink cuteness
hides<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Evil they have
inside<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their impact just
grows<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are changing lives -<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Individuality<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is being
slaughtered<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disturbingly cute<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They try to decide
the things<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You should decide<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-86106904553997424582019-02-17T03:00:00.000-08:002019-02-17T03:00:07.741-08:00Samantha Stephens's "Now You See Me" after Billie Grace Lynn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Alexander Early College instructor, Jane Lucas, shares her student's poem inspired by the BLOW UP artist, Billie Grace Lynn. Samantha Stephens was unable to attend the tour on October 13, 2019.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">NOW YOU SEE ME<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Samantha
Stephens<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i>White Elephant</i> by Billie Grace Lynn<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now you see me,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My posture high, robust,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I reach out with
my burly trunk<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emitting such
fictitious evocation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now you see me<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Filled with
empowerment,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Audacious and monumental.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reach out, if you
dare.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Feel my solace and
shield.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now you see me<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Encompassing more
than intuition,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reaching deep for
vitality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Deliver me from
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am very much
treasured<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the point of
termination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">For now, you see me.</span></span></b>Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-3820626561793542522019-02-10T03:00:00.000-08:002019-02-10T03:00:02.010-08:00Patricia Deaton's "Old House" after Douglas Grant<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Art of Poetry's Patricia Deaton shares her poem inspired by the Douglas Grant watercolor at Art of Poetry Catawba Valley's tour of Hickory Museum of Art - October 13, 2018.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Patricia Deaton</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i>Over Yander</i> by Douglas Grant</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Old House, call the
young girl home</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">who cooked for those
who raised your roof that day.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">They lingered
underneath this oak, among them</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">young men, bound to
go to war.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Call to that whole
family, sick inside your cozy walls</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">order nailed upon the
door to keep disease and death in.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">They rest now upon
the rise, stones as white as bones</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">that mark their
graves.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Call to the man who
wanders in across the yard</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">from bottom land, and
wonders if he’s seen this place before</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Upstairs in dreams,
he cries for things he never will forget</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">and hopes, to God, he
never sees again.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Old house, call all
the people home who filled</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">your days</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">with hard and
less-hard ways of life</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">back then</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">when innocence could
not last for long.</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Robert Eades's provocative elevator room installation is the subject of "Revelation 2" by Melissa Hager. She shared the poem at the Hickory Museum of Art tour on October 13, 2018. The next Art of Poetry Catawba Valley tour of an art institution will be announced in the coming weeks. <i>Photo courtesy of Hickory Museum of Art.</i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">REVELATION
2 <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">By
Melissa Hager<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after
elevator room installation by Robert Eades <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Focus
on God’s beauty </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">even
descending into the abyss. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every
roll, dip and sway experienced <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is
within Alpha and Omega’s mighty hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He
didn’t create the metal tube, engines, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">within
which to plunge <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">into
the storm. He didn’t compel <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">you
buy the ticket to ride. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yahweh
gives a world with water, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">food,
air, resources for shelter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As
His gifts are depleted, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to
grant the greed of Adam <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and
Eve’s offspring, the snake <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">gets
the last bite. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But
the devil too will perish<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in
an unsustainable world. </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Lewis deSoto sculpture, <i>Paranirvana</i>, photographed along with other pieces in the BLOW UP exhibit at Hickory Museum of Art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">MOMENTARY
PEACE</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">by
Kourtney Rabinowitz<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">after </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #262626;">Paranirvana </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #262626;">by<i> </i>Lewis deSoto</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">I lie in repose </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">As the
arms and legs </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Of our
modern world’s soldiers </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">March by,
convinced if they don't,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The cogs
of progress will freeze in place</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<!--[endif]--></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">I live in
repose</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">As greed’s
roots</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Take hold
in the corners of the sphere </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">And the
curves of our hearts</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Spiraling
into the composted remains </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Of its
ultimate reward</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I lie in
repose as</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The
moving pictures of my mind</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Flash</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Rubble
where walls once stood</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Flowers
where the discards of existence abided</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Outstretched
hands where fists once thrusted</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">I awake</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-8709265428356277152018-12-31T03:00:00.000-08:002019-01-01T15:57:33.615-08:00Doug McHargue's "Survivor" after Connie Bostic<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doug McHargue photographed at the October 13, 2018 tour of Hickory Museum of Art sharing her poem inspired by Connie Bostic.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SURVIVOR<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Doug McHargue<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fit:
Brownie</i> by Connie Bostic<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The artist has caught me<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in days of pink resilience,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">there’s nothing organdy
starched<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">statue thick couldn’t solve,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">when we still were parades<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">past statues, in shoes<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">that matched, Peter Pan<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">collar tidy lines tying<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">loose ends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And there’s the Brownie, my
first<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">camera to keep the world<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of backyard kittens,
overflowing<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">skinny inbreds drawn like<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the chicken to cross the road<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the dark of night,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">me, held together<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with pattern pieces<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of tissue, and skin,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ephemeral cloth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />Videoetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583283516052332724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3473056561568228380.post-46897281939728438462018-12-10T03:00:00.000-08:002018-12-10T03:00:06.220-08:00Morgan Jenkins's "The Elephant in the Room" after Billie Grace Lynn<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Morgan Jenkins shares her poem with the tour at Hickory Museum of Art on October 13, 2018. Billie Grace Lynn's sculpture was included in the BLOW UP exhibit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Morgan Jenkins<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">White Elephant 1</i> by Billie Grace Lynn<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Elephant in the
room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It often keeps me up,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wondering how
different things might be<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Without that
Elephant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh Elephant in
the room,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please teach me how
to change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I want to; I wish to,
but I can't.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not without you,
Elephant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Elephant in my
room,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why are you so
bright? Are you a white liar? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or maybe trying to
hide the pain deep inside?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't go on without
knowing, my dear Elephant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Mr.
Elephant in this lonely room,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please be careful.
Please watch over me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please don't step on
me; I'm already walked over like a doormat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please Elephant, I
can't do this without you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Elephant in the
room,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It proves that better
is coming; things are changing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I might just change
too. But I can't.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not without that
Elephant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Elephant in my
room,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Promise me if I
change, you'll change too?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Promise me you won't
leave me all alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't keep going
without my Elephant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Elephant in the
room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">People start to
notice you,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And they try to
change you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But please don't
change without me.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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