Category: music
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“Don’t try to make the poem look pretty. You’re not decorating cupcakes, Cupcake.” -William Logan
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I am happy and humbled to have won the inaugural Iron Writer Challenge Summer Solstice Open. The Iron Writer Challenge (www.theironwriter.com) give 4 writers 4 days to write a 500 word story or poem – the catch is that the writers are given 4 disparate elements that must be included. This week’s elements were: an incubus,…
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http://peoples-poetry-competition.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/3-dashboard-drawing-board.html Dashboard drawing board I do my best writing while drivingusing a dashboard drawing boardand rolled down window arm restwith a stolen bank ink penattached to nothing bya few remaining links of chainI write crooked words on the pagesof a drug store spiral pocket notebookand just as I would clean upbefore hospital visits to youI…
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I just discovered Gumroad (pretty cool site!) and thus have made “Songs You Can’t Dance To” available in PDF for only 99 cents! https://gumroad.com/l/GzAd
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https://www.facebook.com/notes/peoples-poetry-network/peoples-poetry-competition-shortlist/613051855385903
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“I suppose in the end the whole of life is an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking as moment to say goodbye.” – Life of Pi
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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 — copyright 2013 Steven Harz — “Unknown battle” originally appeared in…
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Each day I collect couch cushion pennies Lincoln wheat copper zinc in a dented tin bucket that I stored secretly under our bed until the time came for me to need an abandoned wishing well Behind our house on welcome wooded walks path tracks bridge brook you gathered weeds and wildflowers in turn of the…
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Beneath where your hair falls when wet and just above where my arms rest during morning shower hugs is a birthmark in the shape of a magic lamp that used to make you laugh but has made me thankful each day for our too-brief one thousand and one nights and beyond my arm is a…
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“Gas Station Road Map once again provides Steven Harz the opportunity to show us the tough road of Love always keeping in mind the hope for what we all desire. Love is present throughout – especially in Hundreds of Words, Stick Figure You, Tie Dyed Tomorrow, Charting a Path, Stitched Together Heart and Yo Yo…
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“So knee-deep in desperation I whisper my dreams into the well’s leaky oaken bucket and pulling the old coarse rope my hopes ascend…” — copyright 2013 Steven Harz — “Tie-dyed tomorrow” is included in my latest ebook of fiction and poetry titled “Gas Station Road Map” – take a peek: http://www.amazon.com/Gas-Station-Road-Map-ebook/dp/B00CQ7KC3U
Steven Harz / Americana Soul 