The second #poetryspecial for the #MockingOwlRoost in 2024 is out today!

Come read the incredible #poetry from artists around the globe.

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/poetry-special-2-2024/

@reneecronley @jonathan.fletcher9 #SusanCarberry #GeneGoldfarb #SavannahHernandez @bmkennelly @xander_branche #JanetMcCann @prof.ammanda @johntmuro #NathanielPatterson #KushalPoddar #RobertPriest @dianaraab @cls.sandoval @gargisidana #HenryVinicioValerioMadriz @ritamockpike @cook1097 @octpearl5

Poetry Special #2 – 2024

Breathe in the beauty of a lone

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"Return me to the Earth
When my Body can give No More,
When my Fingers are numb to Worldly Thorns..."

Read the #poem by #SavannahHernandez on the #MockingOwlRoost blog.

#poetry

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/return-me-compost-poetry/

Compost

Bury me in a Shallow Grave Where I can Feel Above as Below, Where Sun Rays and Rains may Embrace me still…

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Who will remember the long dead after they have been laid to rest, dust? Will they be forgotten? Will the dead be left for more mundane things as chores, bills, life? This haunting poem, Forgotten Burials by #savannahhernandez asks that very question. Please enjoy this hauntingly lovely poem in the MockingOwl Roost blog.

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/gravestones-forgotten-burials/
(Pictured is a graveyard. The title and byline are in white over the background.)

Forgotten Burials

How the Earth Blankets our History by Chapters Archeologists are Worms and Bugs and Burrowing Creatures…

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Poetry is a beautiful way to start the afternoon. Please enjoy #PreciousThingsAreFoundInTrees by #SavannahHernandez (Page 42) #mockingowroost #triannualissue #UnexpectedDelights #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #naturepoetry #treepoetry #poetrylovers

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/unexpected-delights-triannual/
(Pictured is a blue hummingbird on a tree branch. The border around the picture is in light blue and teal blue. The title and byline are in place print on the border.)

Triannual: Unexpected Delights

Please enjoy Unexpected Delights, a beautifully themed issue of the MockingOwl Roost.

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Let’s start Monday off with a wonderful #fiction. Please enjoy #TheBanquet by #savannahhernandez #mockingowlroost #blog #writer #writerscommunity #fictionmonday

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/the-banquet-fiction/
(Pictured is a banquet table with goblets, and a fall arrangement in the center of the table. The title and byline is in white print on a black border.)

The Banquet

Pain stains the deadlocked roads yet the shades of horror do not seem to penetrate the ornate walls of the Manor...

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We start the morning with vibrant poetry. Please enjoy #dandeliongarden by #SavannahHernandez #mockingowlroost #blog #poetry #flowerpoetry #poet #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/flowers-dandelion-garden/
(Pictured is a beautiful yellow dandelion. The title and byline are in black print over the picture)

Dandelion Garden

I swallow the cotton puff of seeds With my saliva, like rain, they sprout within

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A Silent Hello, An Unsaid Goodbye

Twenty-five years of no meeting up or communication. It wasn’t intentional; she couldn’t remember how it happened. It was an argument, she thinks. But it didn’t matter to her anymore.

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