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A Poem by Mark
Sung to the tune of Stephen Foster's "M-O-T-H-E-R"
(" 'M' is for the Million things she gave me...")
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A Poem by Mark
Can a man ever hope to own the heart of a woman, even if it is given voluntarily?
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A Poem by Mark
This was an unusual exercise, in that it lay incomplete for several months, then one night, about two a.m., I awoke with a start, madly scrabbling for..
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A Poem by Mark
Here's another Sestina, a mildly tongue-in-cheek observation about HOW my quest to repay a childhood enemy made me less like myself, and MORE LIKE HIM..
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A Poem by Mark
The Sestina is an old and very challenging form. It's been twenty years since I wrote my first two, and TODAY I encountered another writer doing them:..
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A Poem by Mark
--inspired by the poem, "Slow Trickles on my Tongue", by my friend, Emma...
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A Poem by Mark
When my cousin died last month unexpectedly, I had to admit that he was a different--and Vastly Better!-- person than whom I had known as a child. Thi..
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A Poem by Mark
The oldest questions, for the umpteen-millionth time...
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A Poem by Mark
I've taken a good deal of heat over the years re. my custom of writing mainly in the closely metered, rhyming style so not-in-fashion these days. This..
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A Poem by Mark
In 1977, I was so broke, I could not afford to send my sister a birthday
gift, so I gave her the only thing of value I could muster at the time, a h..
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