Shana Ritter
poetry on demand
September brings a new beginning, the start of a new year, my own birthday near to the high holidays, days when the gates swing open, and...
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Shana Ritter
- Apr 8, 2016
- 1 min
poetry
Outside the day has turned to cold gray rain and spring rolled back to a late winter sky. But oh the light. the light against the tender...
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Shana Ritter
- Feb 25, 2016
- 1 min
What I learned about being still
It is not lying around It is not maintaining one position It is not counting breaths although counting breaths helps to get to a certain...
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Shana Ritter
- Feb 25, 2015
- 2 min
Wishing Time Away
The light belies the cold. Even with six inches of snow on the ground, even with temperatures barely rising above 20 F there is no doubt...
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Shana Ritter
- Sep 4, 2014
- 2 min
Back Home Again…
I have been home for four days following our two week sojourn in Peru. It was a truly wonderful trip in many aspects, not just the places...
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Shana Ritter
- Aug 21, 2014
- 1 min
Viaje
I am having coca tea just off the plaza in Ollantaytambo . We have been traveling 5, or is it 6 days and therein lies my point. Time ...
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Shana Ritter
- Aug 7, 2014
- 1 min
Dreaming
Last night in my dream I saw a glacier out the window. It invited me to walk on it, it’s name was murphy’s glacier. When I turned from...
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Shana Ritter
- Jul 2, 2014
- 1 min
A question of balance
When my children were young and my days full of constant juggling I would take moment in the darkening and walk outside to look up at the...
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Shana Ritter
- Jun 19, 2014
- 1 min
A little something on nothing
Today I have an overwhelming urge to do nothing. To sit and let the day pass by, the sky shift from pale cloudless blue to a morass of...
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Shana Ritter
- Apr 17, 2014
- 1 min
Made of Memories
I have been writing a poem a day in honor of national poetry month. Four of us who write together weekly have been sharing these online...
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Shana Ritter
- May 28, 2013
- 2 min
Constructs
Much of the reason I started this blog is give myself a mandate to practice writing something in a short prose form addressed to a...
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Shana Ritter
- May 24, 2013
- 1 min
word by word
Unusual for me I woke with a visually, audibly clear dream. In this dream I tried to create things by thinking and imagining, I tried to...
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