Showing posts with label light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light. Show all posts
Saturday, June 13, 2026

TREES IN SPRING

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by Royal Rhodes David Hockney, who died on Friday, painting in Normandy in 2020.  Photograph: David Hockney in The Guardian Hockney shaped t...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

AMERICAN FLAG BLUE

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by Bonnie Proudfoot In the twilight of my life, I came  to the history of indigo: color  and currency, “a length of cloth  in exchange for o...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

HOPE FOR THE NEW YEAR

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by Barbara Schweitzer AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . There is no rodeo feat to lift history. History is the sla...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

TURNING POINT

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Jan Chronister is a retired educator who splits her year between the extremes of northern Wisconsin (by Lake Superior) and southern Georgia...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

HANUKKAH

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by  Anita S. Pulier Sure, we know the story. Desecration of a temple, hopelessness, sorrow. Short on sanctified oil the fire and light on ha...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

THE POET PROVOKED

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by Roberta Batorsky These verses searchlight wrongs, thrust into the light all injustice lurking in the shadows. Stanzas pry loose prison ba...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

LAMENT FOR THE TIMES

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by Ann Grogan after George Eliot, “The Choir Invisible” and William Henry Channing, “My Symphony” Primitives by Kathy George Eliot prayed t...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

SOLIDARITY

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by Melissa Balmain AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . “ If you’ve noticed more fireflies dancing across your backya...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

PAGES OF LIGHT (IN DARK TIMES)

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by David Chorlton (1) Hard to tell whether the wind  last night was social unrest or coyotes’ dreams as darkness flowing. The lightness of t...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

PROJECT 2025

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by Janet Blair Call me crotchety and loud ineffective and utopian  unrealistic and wasteful. Laugh as I hold postered signs  made with marke...