Category: music
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I needed you to be perfect being my very last chance so I stood at the workbench goggled and gloved and crafted you from leftover lumber and half-bent nails piled in the corner that I’d used and given up upon in the failed creation of love jigsaw and mallet nicked knuckles and pounded thumb I…
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I’m very honored to have made this list! Please visit StaceyMichelle’s wonderful blog – she’s a terrific writer! February | March reading list
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Since we just passed the anniversary of “Pride and Prejudice” this may be a fun read. The old classic with a Southern twist!
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Some more great spoken word poetry! “Love Poem” by Rudy Francisco – enjoy!!!
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“Songs you can’t dance to” now available on Amazon My new collection of poetry and short fiction is available – edits done more quickly than initially thought and the eBook is now on Amazon ($2.99)!! You can use the link below or just go to Amazon and search ‘steven harz’ – take a peek!!!
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When I look at the two of you it is apparent (at least to me) that one of you is looking forward and one is looking back. The one that is outgoing and gregarious looks hopefully to the uncertainty of the future and the one that is introverted and retrospective looks longingly for the…
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Because on Saturday night I am in bed and fall asleep alone Because on Sunday morning I sit in a pew and wait for help forsaken Because on Monday I sit at my desk and try to work isolated Because each day I formulate love letters to you on pretty paper undelivered…
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My suicide was reported with no reason but you know the truth
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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 — if you liked this please check out my book of…
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I am not glad that you are gone (have left) but I am thankful that while you were here I chronicled our love on my flesh but my art is not that of (clichéd) dragons and skulls or daggers (though this may be next) but of hearts and crosses and birds and Bible verses (Psalm…
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I studied you tonight as I if were reading and re-reading the Bible in Braille but when I came to passages reviling fornication I became a momentary atheist — copyright 2012 Steven Harz — “Momentary atheist” is included in my book, “Songs you can’t dance to”
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There is a box in your basement or attic (or in last week’s trash) overfilled with letters that I’d written too you and about us and these memories and poems and prayers are one half of our written history. Beneath my bed is a similar box filled with your writing and lip prints and smells…
Steven Harz / Americana Soul 