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Brenda Davis Harsham

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May 5, 2022

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Memoir, Photography, Poetry

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Together

petalled, leafed and bare, 
together through the long years 
branches twined 

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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May 25, 2020

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Memoir, Photography, Poetry

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Rebirth

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in a time
of confusion and fear,
rebirth

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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April 30, 2020

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Yellow Butterfly

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my mother’s birthday
missing her, feeling alone
yellow butterfly

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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March 16, 2020

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Current Events, Memoir, Photography, Poetry

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Pausing for Love

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A little love for
all of us pausing, Continue reading →

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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November 29, 2018

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Photography, Poetry

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In Love

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In love with fall:
the colors, crisp air and
spiraling calm of falling leaves.

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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April 29, 2018

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Photography, Poetry

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Let Me

Heather on a Stone Wall

Let me be the shadow
under your bloom,
the stone that
lifts you,
the lichen that
breaks rock to soil.  Continue reading →

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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March 22, 2018

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Photography, Poetry

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Bittersweet Blues

Stormstorm with blue house

bittersweet spring,
winter has overstayed
cold silence

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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February 13, 2018

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Holiday, Photography, Poetry, Romance

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Poetry Is… A Sunrise

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golden flutter
unravel in another’s eyes
joyful heartbeat
tremble, strong
weave a single spirit

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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November 15, 2017

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Photography, Poetry

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Sleeping Magic

Art Dress La Esencia de Titania designed and created by Resa McConaghy

Photograph Used With Permission of Resa McConaghy

Like cicadas at summer’s end,
a fairy queen’s shell lingers, iridescent, glowing,
with traces of sleeping magic.

A wizard king can wake the dreamer
if he believes Continue reading →

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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July 9, 2017

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Photography, Poetry, Romance

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Ruffled Petals

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Ruffled red petals,
taut with youth,
reveal, then conceal Continue reading →

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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July 3, 2017

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Holiday, Photography, Poetry

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Interdependence

Green Field with small flags casting long shadows

Everything we do
casts a long shadow
in the lives of others.

Let our decisions reflect
kindness and deep thought. Continue reading →

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Brenda Davis Harsham

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May 14, 2017

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Holiday, Photography, Poetry

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Happy Mother’s Day

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Our oldest love, our first love,
unfolding from our own birth,
grows as we take our first steps,
flows in our veins,
lodges in our fiber.
The love that makes us children again. Continue reading →

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