
A newsletter collecting poetry, short stories, essays, and novels written by Petrena Wilbur
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I was born an observer, watching the sky change and bugs crawl, listening to people talk and birds sing loud across the street from each other. This trait never left me. It has served me well – and someti...
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Giddy chirps of young,
Full of fresh wits.
Sharp commands of the grown,
School for hard treks.
Flocks grouping in line.
Switchi...
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Warm, embracing moonlight
Beams upon
The effervescent sea,
Causing paisley swirls
Of glistening foam
To catch—
And stretch—
A contemplating me.
First published in Substack, July 18, 2024
Photo by Bernd 📷 Dittrich on Unsplas...
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This poem came to me after the election of 2024 as the winds of change began to blow across this country. I am sharing it again because many of you have not read it and it is even more relevant now. I wish that in a small way it can...
Some loss never ends...
In December 2010, I retired early from a career that I loved, as a newsletter writer, editor, and eventually, webmaster for a state agency. One of my daughters, then thirty-three and the mother of a four-year-old, h...
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