I Will Be Flower #TankaTuesday
© 2021 selmamartin.com All rights reserved. This is what I’ll do when I grow old. Poetry.
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November 17, 2021
Author's Album
Invitation to Listen to “The Right Word,” by Imtiaz Dharker
All Rights Reserved. https://selmamartin.com/ Because... "It (a poem) never asks a crumb of us in return." Emily Dickinson (I think)
November 15, 2021
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This One Is for AnotherKate for Her Generosity
All Rights Reserved © Selma Martin 2021 I hope that my friend in Australia and all who read this delight in the silliness of the poem. Happy Spring, Kate. xo
November 14, 2021
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An Open Letter To My Rebloggers: Please Reblog This One
Do me a favor, rebloggers, reblog this one. Thanks. I'm learning to navigate the blogger sphere as well. Let's help each other and make courtesy and kindness attractive again. Mutual respect, remember? xo
November 13, 2021
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If The Muse Bestows, Commune, Set It Free #poetry
© 2021 selmamartin.com (exclusively) Show me proper courtesy if you wish to reblog this, and ask for written permission to repost. Thank you. Do you have a Halloween poem that you wrote and failed to publish? Then I guess that poem is bullying your shadow. Let's do something about that.
November 11, 2021
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In the Window of A Store, In a Small Town, In a Small Country #dVerse
These things I remember, and I remember them well: Father brought us white Christmases to revel and to boast, and Mother brought us Christmases to last forever.
November 11, 2021
In Author's Album. Nov. 2021. Thanks, S.U.
Tucking Mother In With Grateful Slumber Kisses #TankaTuesday #CallToEarth
© 2021 selmamartin.com All rights reserved. I ask for mutual respect. I'd like you to taste the rainbow of earth tones: umber, ochre, sienna, and gold, as we tuck Mother Earth and wish her happy slumbers. #callToEarth
November 9, 2021
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How Mermaids Celebrate On Their Coming Of Age Day
Birthdays are special-- even to Mermaids. How do you think they celebrate?
November 9, 2021
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Under the Sycamore Tree, A Cancer Rots #dVerse
© 2021 selmamartin.com (exclusively) Show me proper courtesy if you wish to reblog this, and ask for written permission to repost. Thank you. This is what I learned today: "a Conceit is a comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness” and that “a comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness." Wow. I wonder how I did...
November 5, 2021
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Kermit’s Advice to COP26 Leaders Assembled in Glasgow #TankaTuesday
This post is inspired by the "It's not easy being green: other things to consider" quotes by Jim Henson. With a Senryu and Pixabay photos, I hope to add value to you today. And I hope these words reach our COP26 leaders. Amen.
November 4, 2021
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A Festive Sonnet Night Bonanza for All Hallows’ Eve
Collaborating with Experiments in Fiction Website, where exists a bodega of chilling posts that would otherwise be roaming the blogger-sphere like zombies. Join in for the festive sonnet bonanza you will not soon forget.
October 31, 2021
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Did Sleepy Hollow By Washington Irving Make You Cry? #earthweal
There were far too many complaints from mothers of young children about this 1949 movie-- namely this 3+ minutes scene. Perhaps you too were one of those kids? Well, then this will bring you nostalgic chills. Just don't show it to the kids.
October 30, 2021