Author: Steven Harz
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My every night one night stand With your hand on the radio and my hand on your heart your top-of-thigh Levi’s cutoffs and frosted and feathered hair are riding shotgun in a 20-year-old F150. As I am look to my right, watching you look to your right, we pass Sparkle Car Wash and the…
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From DailyMail.com: Using poems to help people with depression could save the NHS nearly £200,000 a year, according to research published today for National Poetry Day. A new report based on 196 people with psychological problems found that 75% found writing poems was an emotional release. Two thirds found reading or listening to poetry helped…
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Greetings from Backroad Poetry, Included in this month’s newsletter is the Poem of the Month, spoken word poetry by Rudy Francisco, a quick micro poem, and a recent review of our recent release, “Self Inflicted Heart Shaped Wounds.” Poem of the Month: The wrong North Star Word by word you built your story and I…
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I recently added an author page at Pronoun – please take a look! https://books.pronoun.com/stevenharz/
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Unknown battle My written words are in an unknown battle with your unspoken thoughts and since neither are audible or discernible to the other or to us the fight will silently rage into the darkness until we are deafened by the peace that could have been — s.c. harz @BackroadPoetry #BackroadPoetry poem of the…
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Yo-yo love As you know ours is a yo-yo love we are up and down and in an out Imperial and Butterfly rotational energy held together by thin twisted twine we are equal parts Walk-the-dog and Loop-the-Loop but now I am made to Sleep and before I awake am sent Around-the-World over hill and…
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@BackroadPoetry #BackroadPoetry Poem of the Month – send a quick note to: backroadpoetry@gmail.com
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This is an excerpt from the poem “Eventually I will miss you forever,” which is included in the collecting titled, ‘Self Inflicted Heart Shaped Wounds,’ which is available in paperback and Kindle / ebook at Amazon. @BackroadPoetry #BackroadPoetry #HeartShapedWounds #PoetryDoesntRhyme
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“The crown of literature is poetry.” -M. Somerset Maugham — picturequotes.com #BackRoadPoetry #PoetryQuote #PoetryDoesntRhyme
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Lying here next to you it is not difficult to see that you wear your heart on your sleeve…
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Neon buzzing Along the route, and under Budweiser buzzing neon in the barroom window above I killed time buying glasses of beer with loose coins collected in the Chevy truck ashtray while trying to count the number of streetlights between you and home. … This poem is included in my collection titled, “Country Songs and…
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” -Robert Frost
Steven Harz / Americana Soul 