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Karen E Sandberg's avatar

Love it. Thanks for writing 13 ways to hate dark November in such fine language.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Ha ha ha! Yes. My pleasure :)

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

November is beautiful in Las Vegas. I have roses blooming and the bougainvillea is just absolutely covered in gowns of blooms of pink and purple. It’s the best time to live in Las Vegas.

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James Maynard's avatar

I had forgotten how well that form takes the poet and the reader everywhere.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

All hail Wallace Stevens!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

It’s gorgeous!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you

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man of aran's avatar

Fantastic. I like how you sacrificed 13 future sunrise posts for the sake of one brilliant piece. It’s not about ‘content’. It’s about poetry.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Giggling

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Patris's avatar

Like parts of a body celebrated.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

That sounds like a poem right there!

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Ann Collins's avatar

The Columbia flows east for

Only a short while

Before it turns to bring you the sunrise.

😌 mmmmm!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

thanks Ann i love that comment

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

"I am guilty of / Counting syllables ." LOL. Right with you. Oh, and congratulations on the circumflex, and on "scablands."

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

I was trying to imagine what strange words Wally would throw in.

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Brian Funke's avatar

This as a collection is fantastic! I, V and IX especially caught me in different ways 🔥

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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House of Neglected Poetry's avatar

"As winter comes on,

The sun rises further and further

Away on the despondent horizon.

The poet's entrepôt of words

Grows fogbound

With the temptation of silence."

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you

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Brian Jobe's avatar

Fantastic! “Fearing for a moment that

The headlights on the highway

Were the remnants of last year's sunrise”

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