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One Word Less For Lent 2017 – Day 3 – Fighting For You

March 3, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

    Fighting for You One papered me with stickers The other readjusted, removed, stuck herself. They squabbled. We were baffled. Time for timeout? Yuleisy got to the bottom of it She’s fighting for you, she said, because her friend has offended you. Word Count: 38   In the stillness, Sandy   Note: These sweet girls are part […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2017 – Day 2 – It’s Not About the Gift

March 2, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

  It’s Not About the Gift They spread a table with handcrafted hospitality. Take one, they say, and when enough is certain, take another. We, proud, hesitate to accept a free gift. But in the end it’s not about the gift it’s about the love. Word Count: 39   Note: I took a whole suitcase of gifts to the Dominican […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2017 – Day 1 – Sunday Mourning

March 1, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

Sunday ends in mourning

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6 R’s of Poetry Memorization

February 15, 2017 By Sandra Heska King

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I finally settled on six weapons to finish off Prufrock—I mean, to complete this dare—and they each begin with the letter “R.”

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Let It Be – An Advent Poem

December 20, 2016 By Sandra Heska King

      Let It Be I am the handmaid of the Lord Let it be. It’s been nine months since the seed was first sown. Nine months of waiting, growing heavy with time. Nine months of “I don’t want to move. Nine months of sunrise dawning in incremental stanzas. Nine months of watching God […]

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Feeling the Weight of Time

November 21, 2016 By Sandra Heska King

Feeling the Weight of Time Today I’m feeling the weight of time. I glimpsed myself in the bank’s overhead monitor and saw not an older woman with graying roots and eyebrows in bad need of waxing but a younger version with two dark brown ponytails at a family picnic, remembered trail rides on a summer […]

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Sunset in Key West

November 18, 2016 By Sandra Heska King

  Sunset in Key West Then the sun melted into the sea, and we who were together for a few moments went our separate ways and melted into the night.  

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Choosing Joy

November 14, 2016 By Sandra Heska King

  Choosing Joy Above the sea, morning rises bruised, mottled pink and purple, like it did battle in the dark hours or collided with some celestial bedpost. I watch the sky pass through various stages of healing until it clears. Back at the cottage, I study my new supply of tea leaves with deluxious descriptors […]

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The Day After the Election

November 10, 2016 By Sandra Heska King

    The Day After the Election I’ve just made another deposit on the house, and I’m on my way back from the bank. As I make my move to turn left from Federal Highway onto Atlantic Boulevard, a giant fluorescent green lizard leaps into my path. I hit my brake. Others hit their brakes. […]

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Poetry of Moving: New Carpet

June 16, 2016 By Sandra Heska King

There’s coming in the going, going in the coming, stillness in the moving.

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