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For the second time today, a full restart of the poet’s hacked device has been necessary to complete publication of this offering.

This time, however, the restart failed to solve the new problem ~ so there is no image for this post.

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Recorded Reading (1:26): https://www.dropbox.com/s/xt3m4dz88z5hw10/Touched%20by%20Poetry.mp3?dl=0

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Touched by Poetry

Some of the plainest people
That you will ever see
Live lives most beautifully blessed
By a few lines of poetry

Since they may not be erudite,
Might not be the kind
To read thick books, we imagine
They to beauty must be blind

But poetry is everywhere,
Making up each song
By which our hearts are lifted,
Helped to get along

On Christmas ~ on all holidays ~
We give our loved ones cards
Describing of their value
Our own effort well rewards

And then there are those times
When, though to read it we don’t try,
A few short lines of poetry
In life come drifting by

Quoted in a movie, or on the radio,
A careless note left by the phone,
A poster in a waiting room,
And suddenly by us is known

More deeply and more resonantly
Those eternal truths of love
Which every day, from then till death,
We have, and give, benefit of

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Homeless until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ this poet presently lives under perpetual threat of towing with all possessions should her 23-year-old van stop running for any reason.

Donors may visit http://www.UgiftABLE.com , using code #72D-31S. It does take several days for the poet to be notified of your patronage.

Thank you for supporting quality in the fine arts.

She is badly in need of a modest reserve with which to field any emergency which might occur.

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