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Category: Featured Writing

May 30, 2023May 30, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing, Prompts

The Sounds of Silence by Lourdes Santiago

This may be a title song by Simon and Garfunkel, but to me it is my writing Mantra.  I’m a morning person. “Early to bed and early to rise,” that’s … Continue reading The Sounds of Silence by Lourdes Santiago

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Nightingale in Scripture by Duane L Herrmann

     “Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies, proclaiming to the sincere ones the glad tidings of … Continue reading Nightingale in Scripture by Duane L Herrmann

May 22, 2023May 16, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

the mourning dove by jsburl

i heard the call of a mourning dove as it floated on the wind. its haunting tune so lonely in the silence of the dawn.  oh why do you sound … Continue reading the mourning dove by jsburl

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

The Pool by Lourdes Santiago

Me: (going out to the pool on a hot summer day, wishing I could forget and forgive) It’s been a year since it all happened and yet I still blame … Continue reading The Pool by Lourdes Santiago

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Here the Frailest Leaves by Duane L. Herrmann

Here my last words and most baffling; Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, myself do not expose them, … Continue reading Here the Frailest Leaves by Duane L. Herrmann

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

I Cry For America! by Lourdes Santiago

After Slmarsh/ After MoneemaM I hear America crying,Our future it's quickly dying.The wolves, the pound.A Giant falls. I hear America Crying,people are sadly dying.They knock us down within, and trash us … Continue reading I Cry For America! by Lourdes Santiago

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Three Golden Shovels by Lourdes Santiago

1. The Danger Within by Lourdes Santiago “STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING” BY ROBERT FROST (last four lines) The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have … Continue reading Three Golden Shovels by Lourdes Santiago

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Spring Cleaning My Life by Duane L. Herrmann

How many people have done spring cleaning on their entire life?  Started over with a new beginning?  I did when I was seventeen.  All the members of my family who … Continue reading Spring Cleaning My Life by Duane L. Herrmann

April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

The Road That Does Not Bend by Lourdes Santiago

In couplet formThe long and narrow road leaves no room for change.Not space or time can help to seek or rearrange. The posts they stretch for miles upon miles on … Continue reading The Road That Does Not Bend by Lourdes Santiago

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