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Jeri Shivers

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Born

Houma, LA, The United States

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Poetry, Contemporary

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My life experiences. Singer/songwriter, Jewel ~ poet, actress, wife an ...more

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"Life after 40 ~ Reflection of a (crazy) Woman" is Jeri first publication. She resides in Jasper, TX where this has been home for 22 years. Jeri has two grown children and a cat. She has a passion for photography and the beach is her second home, the place that gives her so much inspiration. She plans to retire there one day and continue to write. ...more

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“Jalapeño Salt”

I love jalapeño salt. I put that stuff on everything. Cottage Cheese and tomatoes, avocados, baked potatoes and even popcorn. I eat it on everything.

It makes me sneeze……….every time.

I’m eating it on my salad tonight; with cottage cheese and tomatoes.

I sneeze……….4 times!

Is it Covid???

I feel my anxiety begin to rise. It’s been doing that a lot these last couple of years.

I’m trying; all over again, t

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The Street Lawyer

by John Grisham (Goodreads Author)

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Break Out!: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life

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Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

by Joyce Meyer

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“You can change your beliefs so they empower dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.”
― Marcia Wieder

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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

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¡ POETRY ! — 22560 members — last activity Feb 16, 2026 08:36PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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