Tag: write
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Advanced review of my eBook “Songs you can’t dance to”
“Harz captures the exhilaration, pain and frustration of love all the while making you strive to find the perfect balance. The feel good ones like “Red”, “Context”, “Order”, “Written History” and of course, “Songs You Can’t Dance to” bring an urge to find the one we love and let them know NOW! While others such…
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Eric Darby performs “Scratch and Dent Dreams” – fantastic!
One of my all-time favorites. “I’m tired of seeing this whole world bet on going big or giving up. Only handing out glory to newspaper headlines and story book endings, ‘cause the truth is I think we need those swing sets most on the rainy days.”
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“Songs you can’t dance to” book release
My eBook of poetry and short fiction to be released on Amazon on January 12!
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Backroad Love Story: “Charting a path”
Each night I press my ear to your empty pillow as if it were a seashell, conch or nautilus and while your voice used to echo each night that we were forever and anchored and true your pillow now only provides me with the deafening silence of distant waves from a now vacant shore where…
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Cover proof for “Songs you can’t dance to”
Proof for book cover is in and looks great!! Will post soon…
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Poem: “Seated at the right hand”
When you finally gained the strength or courage to roll back the stone that had kept me dead to you for three days or years (I’m not sure) I was missing or hiding from our love and the bandages that covered my emotional wounds were not folded neatly because they were still draped from my…
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Poem: “Franklin’s kite”
Like I suppose Columbus held while he sailed the ocean blue, I try to rediscover you with a brass compass. Like I’ve seen Gandhi wear, while nonviolently battling the Brits, I battle old photos through clear round gold frames. Like I learned da Vinci designed, in between the helicopter and scuba gear, on my wall…
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Poem: “Hallowed ground”
To much of the world hallowed ground is a grotto under a church in oh little town. To others it’s a sacred monolith in Mecca or along the banks of the river Ganges. Some feel it’s the killing fields of Gettysburg or where their hearts are buried South Dakota. And others find hallowed two holes…
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Poem: “Songs you can’t dance to”
Title piece from my book of poetry and short fiction – available on Amazon and B&N by searching ‘steven harz’ — The cloud that covers me when I trace the curve of your back The blindness that overcomes me when I see the back of your knee The hangover I fight through on the morning after we…
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Poem: “Sunset”
When he was younger he would have focused on the beers and the cleavage but now as they sat on the cool april pool deck overlooking the narragansett bay and took in the pink and yellow and orange haze of the sun vanishing behind masts and sails and wisps he focused instead on the woman…
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Poem: “Paperweight”
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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10 second love story: “Two senses”
From my book of poetry and short fiction titled “Song’s you can’t dance to” – now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. — While you were here (and were mine) my mind was deaf and blind (or numb) and everything you said and did was silent and invisible But now that you are gone…