Master Poet: Through the State of Michigan Arts Council in a Master and Apprentice program, I introduced a poet to the world and published her book. She was an artist and did artwork for my book that I sold at the Detroit Institute of Arts for my reading there. Old days but fun. I wrote and produced a play I wrote at church to an sro crowd, I had a play produced for the Detroit Arts Employment Program. I worked (volunteered) at Broadside Press, oldest exclusively black poetry press in the country. I earned it - the book parties, the readings, the teaching for the State of Michigan Creative Writers In Schools Program. Also adjudicated the writers for that program. Published poetry travels, I periodically send poems to local community newspapers. You do a lot of that too, that makes you a Master Poet. Live with it!
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Yours In Writing
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Lady A
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ps plus you got over 2400 pieces on PostPoems really good ones, I am behind reading sooooo many. Promse to catch up!
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Bcause: They think it is the Mt. Vesuvius culture where patriarchy rules. We have choices where Mr. Perfect is available and not a liar. The female in this poem broke her own heart. He's iut there, not perfect, but free and worthy and loyal.
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Lady A
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"..the world spares us nothing.": .
Truth learned by running into the its of events blindsided by purity and civilization's gifts. Daughters are up to the challenges as they grow out of you. You get relegated to a useful stair as she opens up her own can of choices.
Stardom has a staircase of prices. Just pay up, step in, arms and armor primed and perfect. Time dents but the pain shows up later, after all the joy and hormonal jubilations. Remind her occasionally she has roots and "home (paraphrased) is where when you come they have to take you in." (Lois McMaster Bujold).
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Best wishes to you and happy trails to her.
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Lady A
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Absence Of Futility: Futility on the 100 mile marker
heaven concepts activate
at the crossover, another
milestone.
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Inexplicability as companion
until a meaning seeps in
and a brittle smile caused
by a perpetual sense of time,
the ultimate captor.
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Lady A
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One of the most exquisite: One of the most exquisite tributes I've ever read; as sublime as it is moving, which made me look up this amazing person who could "lift any joke", and you were right. His wit is almost otherworldly. I'll certainly read more of him. Now there's more laughter in Heaven.
According To Alvin Toffler: In the book, Future Shock, relationships will be shorter in duration. Fast, and fat economy offers many choices and we are conditioned to sample and look until we find the most perfect. We all have flaws, tv romance is not real, movie love is fake news. The quest for wealth and beauty is not out there for everyone. Still that is the prize. Divorce rates are extreme too. Keep trying, be less emotionally attached until it looks more lasting. .
Lady A
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