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In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow...
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Mj Pettengill
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Summer Night, Riverside
In the wild soft summer darkness...
Mj Pettengill
May 22, 20231 min read
Oh, Bear
...born of another time...
Mj Pettengill
May 1, 20231 min read
May Day
The smell of wet wild earth
Is everywhere.
Mj Pettengill
Feb 1, 20231 min read
Blaze a Trail of Compassion
The original blog was replaced with a simple poem. Here's why...
Mj Pettengill
May 30, 20221 min read
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow...
Mj Pettengill
May 23, 20221 min read
Forget-Me-Not
Forget-me-not because we grow together...
Mj Pettengill
Mar 19, 20221 min read
A Light Exists in Spring
A Light exists in Spring
Mj Pettengill
Feb 2, 20222 min read
I Might Dream You Home
It’s been so long since you went away, my butterscotch curls are silver and gray.
Mj Pettengill
Jan 18, 20222 min read
A Hole in the Sky
It was a dream-filled night.
And I had lost my way.
Mj Pettengill
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Where the Mind is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high...
Rabindranath Tagore
Mj Pettengill
Jul 14, 20212 min read
As I Began to Love Myself
"As I Began to Love Myself"
—Poem by Kim and Alison McMillen
(Falsely attributed to Charlie Chaplin)
Mj Pettengill
Jun 19, 20211 min read
The Pauper's Funeral
Poor wretched Outcast! I will weep for thee,
And sorrow for forlorn humanity.
Mj Pettengill
Jun 2, 20211 min read
The Fairies
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men...
Mj Pettengill
May 20, 20211 min read
The Fall of Rome: Auden
By W.H. Auden For Cyril Connolly The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws...
Mj Pettengill
Apr 25, 20211 min read
Looking For Your Own Face
Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. You can never see your own face, only a reflection, not the face itself. So you sigh in...
Down from the Tree - Book Three
Samuel J. Hodgdon II
A Boy ~ A Vision ~ A Knowing Tree
The Journey Continues
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