Don Rearden
A Man Named Moki
A dear friend lost her husband this week, and so many of us grieve with her, as this extraordinary human being at the center both her and...
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Don Rearden
- May 1
- 1 min
So Long, April
then in came the winds screaming down the mountain the giant hemlock shaking angry as us all that the end of April feels like the end of...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 30
- 1 min
Morning Coffee
I didn't drink coffee until after highschool that summer I took a new job at River Marina first morning on the job Pat Jennings, my new...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 28
- 1 min
Sometimes Spring
sometimes spring forgets pauses along the route north and winter lingers [April 28th, 2023 -- poem #28 for National Poetry Month-- woke...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 28
- 2 min
A Part Neanderthal’s Declaration on Gender and More
I'm more Neanderthal than the rest of you Homo sapiens so perhaps this provides me a little space to weigh in on all this outrage and...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 27
- 1 min
New Form Alert! Poo Poetry Alert!
Sometimes writers are credited with creating a new poetic form. I thought I invented the Haipoo, and of course someone already beat me to...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 26
- 1 min
The Weight of Waiting
waiting comes with a certain heaviness, an anxiety seconds tick as hours one day, a year a week, a decade months millienia the import of...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Giant Chicken
a giant chicken flew into this cuckoo's nest a prank for my sister from our dad, delivered by air a cousin packing it thru TSA Montana to...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 24
- 1 min
Caution: Restoring Ruins
at Dzibilchaltún edge of the jungle away from the sun stricken pilgrims with their warm water bottles and selfie sticks and wide brimmed...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 23
- 1 min
Into the Attic
let's be clear I am not a fan of the attic it's not the spiders or cramped quarters darkness no issue either but spiders lurk in the mind...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 22
- 1 min
Sun Back
I wish I could hold the words to express this one thing the way, when the sun returns to this land delivers with life such a flood...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Get Out
I insist strange things today for you a student in my course I say get out! I point towards the exit go hunt, I insist for signs of life...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 19
- 1 min
Revolutionary War
(Began in this day April 19, 1775) Our first we call the revolutionary war, so we could make each battle that followed special and just...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 19
- 1 min
A Visit From Beyond
two nights ago in my sleep a friend came to visit bringing me from the place beyond bestowing such a gift and normally I control my...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 18
- 1 min
Another Empty Jersey
I'm haunted by village gyms gone dark, the echo of a bouncing ball a tournament of teams empty jerseys floating whispers of invisible...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Home Demolition
It all starts with children the home destruction spills, dents, cracks they wreck with the precision of a professional demolitionist but...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Make Today Titanic
we've all been on our own Titanic felt something wasn't right but bought the ticket anyway is it easier to sink into the abyss or fight...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Skulls and Roses
[here is my dear friend Roger Sparks with a board he designed for GoRuck / Street Plant. I helped him tell his story in Warrior's Creed]...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 13
- 1 min
LOOKOUT
(inspired by the novel by Christine Byl) "Lookout" lookout fires burn close lookout closer than you know lookout secrets, begin as...
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Don Rearden
- Apr 13
- 1 min
Spring Tides
spring tides pull hard on the heart melt water fills streams tears, sometimes blood northern sun shines sad gusts of sorrow off the sea...
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