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Berkshire Fine Arts Presents on April 10
An Evening of Jazz and Poetry at Spectrum Playhouse
By: - Mar 12th, 2015There were 26 poets submitting 32 Elevator Poems in a contest sponsored by Berkshire Fine Arts. In an Evening of Jazz and Poetry there will be an awards ceremony at Spectrum Playhouse in Lee, Mass on April 10 from 7;30 to 10:30 PM. Music will be performed by the Richard Vinette Jazz Quintet. The Elevator poets who attend will be invited to read their compositions. The winners are Gail Burns, Astrid Hiemer and Stephen Rifkin. The contest was judged by Professor Mark Miller of MCLA.
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Monty's
Spring Break at the Boatyard
By: - Mar 09th, 2015Spring break alone at our house in Annisquam. Daily visits to Montgomery's Boat Yard. Diplomacy to get my boat down from the loft in the shed. Getting a slick bottom on the boat for summer racing season.
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March
When Winter Won't Quit
By: - Mar 08th, 2015Clocks set back last night. More snow for first hours of daylight caving time. No end in sight for record setting winter miseries.
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Sweet Dreams
Prayers Before Bed
By: - Mar 07th, 2015Prayers before bed. Mom tucked me in. Time for sharing secrets and dreams of growing up.
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Reverie
To Sleep Perchance to Dream
By: - Mar 07th, 2015Tales of the infamous Murder Building on University Road in Cambridge.
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To Ur is Inhuman
ISIS Atrocities to Civilization
By: - Feb 27th, 2015Nations are custodians of civilization. Few more so than in the ancient lands of the People of the Book. How brutal and ignorant, what blasphemy to smash the artifacts of the human condition. Through its atrocities ISIS insults the religion it evokes with irrationality and atrocities.
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Bouillabaisse
Soup by the Sea
By: - Feb 26th, 2015That first summer in Europe, the 1950s, we went as a family. The only time we traveled together. Exploring the Riviera we dined in the charming village of Villefranche-sur-Mer with scorching results.
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Noblesse
Burdens of Birth
By: - Feb 25th, 2015To the manor born is not always what it seems. When riding to the hounds isn't quite enough.
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Jingle Bells
Ripping Off Kids
By: - Feb 24th, 2015It was such fun to perform in the annual Christmas Pageant. Then a mean woman ruined everything.
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The Farmer's Wife
|The Field of Green Bears Its Final Yield
By: - Feb 21st, 2015In the dead of winter exploring the Berkshires inspired Robert Rendo.
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Metamorphosis ~ Metamorphose
Poetic Words in English and German
By: - Feb 21st, 2015A short poem formed itself in my mind just a few days ago as I was opening my eyes. I had seen the mirage or 'Fatamorgana' a few times already, experiencing a grey and moving image, before the real and colorful photograph on the opposite wall in our bedroom took shape. I dismissed the earlier experiences and this time, the words were practically there! - Then, I translated it into German.
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Jihad
God is Great
By: - Feb 20th, 2015The beheadings by the Islamic Terrorists ISIS are described as medieval or even Stone Age. You needn't look further back than the Reign of Terror of the 1790s during the French Revolution.
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Tats
Bawdy Art
By: - Feb 20th, 2015In the checkout line the guy in front of me admired her new tat. Saving up for twenty more.
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Daily Scam
Relentless Calls
By: - Feb 19th, 2015Unsolicited phone call and sales pitch." How bout those Red Sox" in thick accent. Where are you calling from I asked? Bangala Desh.
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Tulips
Tiny Tim Was The Real Deal
By: - Feb 17th, 2015With the high pitched falsetto of a deranged hippie castrato Tiny Tom regaled me with enthusiasm for vintage records of his favorite tunes. My date cracking up almost blew my cover while his TV bride, Miss Vicki looked on bored out of her mind.
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Faux
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Valentine's Day
Ersatz School Holiday
By: - Feb 12th, 2015College kids take every occasion to party. Even celebrating holidays not on the official school calendar.
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Rejuvena
Supercharging Seniors
By: - Feb 12th, 2015Back in the day it was Geritol. Now there's a new wonder drug for seniors. Try Rejuvena and drink from the fountain of youth.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
What's in a Maiden
By: - Feb 12th, 2015The enigmatic Girl in a Pearl Earring by Vermeer reached through centuries to haunt and inspire the poet Robert Rendo.
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The Elevator Poems
Contest Winners Announced
By: - Feb 10th, 2015Professor Mark Miller of the English Department of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts took on the daunting task of judging the Elevator Poems Contest. The idea initiated with a challenge from Jonas Dovydenas, eventually a participant, that it was simply not possible to write a poem about an elevator. From December 16 through January 26 some 32 poems were posted by 25 poets. From this broad spectrum of richly varied approaches Miller derived three finalists. An awards ceremony is being organized for the spring with prizes including original elevator themed photographs by Dovydenas.
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Woody
What Goes Up Must Come Down
By: - Feb 09th, 2015When romance calls be ready. What happens when there's too much of a good thing.
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Noah Snowah
Endless Wintah
By: - Feb 09th, 2015A wintah of Biblical proportions. When it shows for forty days and forty nights.
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Nobirds
Reasons for Four Seasons
By: - Feb 08th, 2015Strawberries and fresh cut roses in the dead of winter. How different from the canned peas of my youth. For snowbirds fleeing the ice and snow there is no real winter. Most of us hunker down and stay put.
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Rubensesque
Why Bigger is Better
By: - Feb 06th, 2015Let's face it guys love full figured women. Act now and put some meat on your bones. Find out why great artists like Rubens didn't paint skinny nudes.
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February
Dead of Winter
By: - Feb 01st, 2015Dark by dinner time. Short days with long nights. Hunkered down getting projects done. Slipping and sliding about.
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