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Ben’s 2024 Year in Books
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Ben Ditmars
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Night Poems
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Haiku in the Night
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Ten Minutes in Heaven
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Inhale the Night
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Four Paws: A Poetry Anthology by The Quillective Project
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Sleeping with Earth
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Conversations
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Fragments: Haiku and Verse of Seasons
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In Memory of Maya Angelou
In memory of Twitter and Maya Angelou.
I wrote a post in 2010 titled My Regards to Maya Angelou. In memory of a great poet I thought I would share it today.
Image Source: Google
I Know Why the Twitter Bird Tweets
The free bird leaps
on Google’s back
and scrolls down page
till the browser ends
and dips his wings
in Facebook rays
and dares to claim the internet.
But a bird t
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| Did you ever read a poetry collection on life support? I took my time with this book reading when I needed it the most. In that way, I was selfish and kept it to myself. The truth was I didn’t want it to end. The truth is I still don’t. Showalter has ...more | |
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“I played until my lips
gave out on cigarettes
and thoughts of you.”
― Mirrored Voices: Best Modern Poets
gave out on cigarettes
and thoughts of you.”
― Mirrored Voices: Best Modern Poets
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“I am lost in my world,
invisible - unknown.
Moon please lend me
your light that someone
will me see me.”
― Dirt Road Dreams
invisible - unknown.
Moon please lend me
your light that someone
will me see me.”
― Dirt Road Dreams
“We are simple creatures seeking love who triumph in the dark and wilt against the light.”
― Inhale the Night
― Inhale the Night
“If there is passion, let me feel its heat.
I want my heart to beat fast,
my breath raspy, my skin to burn.”
― Dirt Road Dreams
I want my heart to beat fast,
my breath raspy, my skin to burn.”
― Dirt Road Dreams
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Peter wrote: "Nice to see you down here Ben keep the river flowing and damn only the consequences. If you get my drift hold on to the branches they always tell a story. :)"I shall hold on against the river flow :-)
Nice to see you down here Ben keep the river flowing and damn only the consequences. If you get my drift hold on to the branches they always tell a story. :)
