A handful of my poems have been published since January, and in the grip of my illness I did not properly acknowledge the publications. I hope to make up for this, at least in part, by providing links to these journals.
My poems “Sometimes I Rain,” “Yesterday’s Ache,” and “Thunder” were published in Samjoko’s winter issue. I am grateful to the editors for taking these pieces.
O at the Edges 
You are magnificent!
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If I am, it’s only because your presence makes me so.
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Oh, these are all SO GOOD! And congrats!
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Thanks, Lynne. All written in this house in exotic Indiana. 😀
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Congratulations, Robert.
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Thanks, Andrew.
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You’re welcome.
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Congratulations on your publications, Bob! I found “Yesterday’s Ache” particularly moving.
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Thanks, Liz. Written in memory of my friend Prentiss Moore, who died too soon, some 25 years ago.
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You’re welcome, Bob.
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I feel the second one most viscerally. Why didn’t I? Know.
And the third one is like the answer to Neruda’s Book of Questions. (K)
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The second one is the most personal one, or perhaps the most revealing one, to me. I was so busy, so consumed with other matters…
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And so often we only see what we want to see…
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Unfortunately so.
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I am in chase of your natural gift Robert…a story teller… a poet…an exceptional observer of the human condition. Congrats and many blessings on your life journey my friend !
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Thanks very much, Jay. I appreciate your support!
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Congratulations on the publication of these three gems, the first two being so apt to your position
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Thank you, Derrick. Sometimes we’re almost prescient. 🙃
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Indeed
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What an interesting publication, congratulations! The poems weave so perfectly together.
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It really is. I’m very pleased to have placed poems there.
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Congratulations (yet again!) – these are all multi-reads.
Sometimes I Rain: “If she could see me now ..” triggers all sorts of inner swirling … several in my past would just not believe the me I am now. Likely none would’ve deemed me compliant, but certainly found fault with my hesitance to say what I really wanted. Love your solitary raven … solitary periodically one of my personal essentials.
Yesterday’s Ache: Very stirring reminder to savor what’s alive and kicking in the moment … none of it permanent … including our fragile selves.
Thunder: Still rereading, puzzling …
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Thanks, Jazz. It’s good to recognize the past for what it was, but the now is ever so much more interesting to me.
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Fine work. “Yesterday’s Ache” of course resonates with most of us older folks (younger ones too, sometimes). And the what the thunder DIDN’T SAY poem is so well done.
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Thank you, Frank. Age has a way of offering perspective.
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Beautiful work.
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Thanks very much, Barbara.
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