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Rayn Roberts

Rayn Roberts

Poetry, Poets, Writing, Readings, Etc.

Category: Women & Men

August 16, 2020September 13, 2020Rayn Roberts

Advice for Younger Writers

I have always written for my own pleasure without regard for what the critics say. what I write is always about me; what I know, feel, see in you, nature, the news every and any thing that touches me– learn, read, hone your skills, fuck critics just write, that’s it, writing, exploration Discovery If you […]

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August 12, 2020August 12, 2020Rayn Roberts

Barmaid Snippet

  “Mind your p’s & q’s”, she said you’ll fall down walkin’ home or crash your car, end up dead not a good way to go, geek– and if you’re writin’ me a poem dot your i’s and cross your t’s. fourth stanza, line six, last word I’ve had an eye on you a while– […]

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August 4, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

A Slice of COVID 19 Quarantine,

for D. A. Rural folk seldom have neighbors pop by. I’m lucky one lives next to me. A great Dane lives with her A cat with me— We stay a crow’s call apart, safe inside. She tends the chickens daily at five. I feed the calico at that time. I greet her tossing feed “Hey, […]

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August 3, 2020Rayn Roberts

La Feria de Abril, Sevilla, España

  What the old know the young don’t believe the wiles of youth are not lost on the wise: as a busy farmer sees a fox does not call his dog or get a gun the old allow freedom, turn a blind eye The young wonder is life always like this, the elders say, not […]

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July 20, 2020July 24, 2020Rayn Roberts

Has It Really Come to This?

The story has been told and retold:  Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]

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