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This is a tv news interview with our founder Jason Minton, a very generous, tolerant, noncensoring, hardworking poetry lover and computer expert. It is a free site.
https://youtube/tuW89F4Pv2g

The webpage art was a gift and was drawn in perhaps 3 minutes by Greg McCray.

Any poem, sentence or phrase of mine may be reproduced.

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Both of our parents were gifted poets, but because both lived lives of sacrificial love for each other and their children, they did not have the time to pursue their own desires.

A poem our mother wrote about the funeral of President John F Kennedy:
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MUFFLED CADENCE
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The sound of shot.
The roar of gun.
Thy will be done

blares the drum.

The sudden shock

The news far flung

Thy will be done

beats the drum.

The hour of grief

The darkened sun

Thy will be done

rolls the drum.

The sound of shot

The grave begun.

Thy will be done

mourns the drum.

Our grandfather

As a volunteer fireman at the
beginning of the 20th Century
he joined a circle of men

who protected a black prisoner

from lynching by a mob.

Our grandmother visited German

relatives in 1938 and refused to

say heil Hitler to anyone.

 Our father in the 1930's
did pro bono work for the NAACP
He was the first attorney
in his city to sue
over a policeman's beating of a black prisoner. He later convinced

all of Akron's theaters to end the practice of requiring blacks to sit

in the balcony.

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Thank you Richard Wilbur for awakening love of poetry
with a stanza about a milkweed in "Two Voices In A Meadow"

These poems are dedicated to my beloved parents, sibling families

friends, and all beings.
families, other loved ones and all God's creatures,

Since these are poems to people of many paths and beliefs, the
ideology of different ways and religions might irritate some
readers for which the writer asks forgiveness.

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All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love.   -  Saint of Shirdi

The mother sees no fault in any of her children -Jillelamudi Mother

One never has enough data to assign value to any action

   - Starseed Transmissions

The message is always first for the messenge...- Course In Miracles

I am very grateful to Attorney William Whitaker of Akron Ohio
who worked hard on a lawsuit challenging compulsory mowing.