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Grain of Salt

George Murray

Just me reading and thinking about poetry, so take it or leave it.

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Many of my old students have stuck around in a writing group I run and I bring a few prompts for each session to help those who are between pieces and want to just noodle for the evening. This poem rose out of one of those prompts and it fe...

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Up and Down

Up and Down

Like a drive through hillside country.
Up and down, like blood pressure,
like the small leaves on the bird cherry

out back at whose foot a treasure
of beloved dog bones are buried.
Up and down, like the yes-man’s...

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NewPoetry Spring Update

NewPoetry is ticking along. For those who are interested in receiving each week’s poem by email, I have added a subscription field at the bottom of each page. Just enter your email and next Monday you’ll get the poem delivered on publicatio...

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Black Ice

Black Ice

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    The sidewalk is a white ice-
box cake made like a bruise....
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Blue Monday Poem

I was thinking this weekend about how the third Monday of January is statistically the worst day of the year for suicide. The joy season has ended, the weather is shit, and the credit card bills have come in. Plus, have you looked around?...

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    Author of ten books | Latest: Problematica New and Selected Poems 1995 - 2020 | Founder of Walk the Line Poetry Schools, Bookninja.com, and NewPoetry.ca | https://linktr.ee/georgemurray

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