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    poetry on demand
    Shana Ritter
    • Sep 4, 2017
    • 2 min

    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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    poetry
    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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    What I learned about being still
    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
    • May 3, 2015
    • 1 min

    Weeding

    Weeding. #poetrymonth
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    Wishing Time Away
    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
    • Feb 18, 2015
    • 1 min

    Hoosier Landscape in Snow

    Hoosier Landscape in Snow.
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    Back Home Again…
    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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    Viaje
    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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    Dreaming
    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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    A question of balance
    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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    A little something on nothing
    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
    • May 1, 2014
    • 1 min

    The happenstance of blue

    The happenstance of blue.
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    Made of Memories
    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
    • Mar 6, 2014
    • 1 min

    Making Soup

    Making Soup.
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    Shana Ritter
    • Aug 29, 2013
    • 1 min

    Turnings

    Turnings.
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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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