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05/07/2024 When Silence Speaks 93 Sonnet
04/23/2024 To which image should we cling? 83 Quatrain
04/01/2024 I Wish I Had 64 Rhyme
03/28/2024 Ocean City Dream 403 Rhyme
02/16/2024 The Natural Order 92 Etheree
02/10/2024 THERE IS A DARKNESS 90 Rhyme
02/03/2024 Fulfillment 143 Rhyme
01/30/2024 The Human Puzzle 97 Rhyme
01/30/2024 Can We Say, Science Fiction Anymore? 179 Free verse
01/29/2024 Organic Balm 77 Sonnet
01/22/2024 Awaking from Stupor 140 Sonnet
01/22/2024 To the Brother Keepers 138 Free verse
01/17/2024 How Great A Box 134 Rhyme
01/13/2024 The Mighty Pines 115 Quatrain
01/11/2024 The Chosen Landing 88 Quatrain
01/11/2024 Silver Dawn 59 Rhyme
01/08/2024 Sipping Coffee 92 Quatrain
01/07/2024 The Steel Box 54 Quatrain
01/02/2024 God's Got Our Back 161 Free verse
08/10/2023 Evening Prayer 146 Kyrielle
08/10/2023 We Are the Kingdom 138 Rhyme
08/03/2023 Morning Prayer Sonnet 100 Sonnet
06/11/2023 Endless Promise 150 Free verse
06/11/2023 Slow Death 130 Sonnet
05/08/2023 Rose Meadow 522 Free verse
05/08/2023 On the Passing of Grannie 527 Ode
05/07/2023 Psalm 2023 547 Couplet
04/03/2023 To Rolling Fork, Mississippi 431 Sonnet
03/20/2023 Victor's Dance 460 Rhyme
03/06/2023 Each Passing Cloud 448 Rhyme
02/24/2023 Spring Is Not All 537 Sonnet
02/24/2023 My Loving Heart Sings 461 Rhyme
02/13/2023 A Valentine To My Sisters In Christ 415 Rhyme
01/28/2023 Dear Heart 445 Rhyme
01/24/2023 The Little Hand 281 Rhyme
01/10/2023 Answered Prayer 359 Sonnet
01/05/2023 The Hibernating Muse 244 Rhyme
12/29/2022 Preference For a Farm 342 Rhyme
12/01/2022 The Drunken Stain 423 Rhyme
11/26/2022 Don'T Quit Your Daydream 415 Quatrain
11/25/2022 Most Beautiful Christmas Poem 420 Quatrain
11/12/2022 Sunshine In Their Youthful Morning Song 467 Villanelle
11/10/2022 Proverbial Thought 284 Rhyme
11/09/2022 The Only Star For Me 373 Rhyme
11/09/2022 December Hemispheres 303 Quatrain
10/22/2022 Bittersweet Memories' Song 721 Terza Rima
10/21/2022 A Graceful Blessing 289 Quintain (Sicilian)
10/17/2022 A Season of Tyrants 397 Quintain (Sicilian)
10/17/2022 No Poem As Lovely 396 Free verse
10/16/2022 Passages 283 Free verse
10/11/2022 Night Song Couplet 465 Couplet
10/07/2022 Suffer the Children 349 Rhyme
10/02/2022 Autumn's Found 233 Monorhyme
10/01/2022 With Murder As Its Name 396 Quatrain
09/29/2022 A Father's Love 316 Sonnet
09/26/2022 Awakening 421 Rhyme
09/26/2022 Recovery 308 Ottava rima
09/23/2022 Sonnet To Connie 407 Sonnet
09/20/2022 I Wandered Lonely As An Orphan 625 Rhyme
09/20/2022 The Spirit Man 489 Rhyme
09/10/2022 When Mother Cries 538 Rhyme
08/02/2022 New Day 508 Rhyme
07/28/2022 It Don'T Mean a Thing 719 Rhyme
07/25/2022 The Human Side 454 Rhyme
07/22/2022 The Divine Gift 550 Rhyme
07/20/2022 Leaning From Attraction To Fool's Gold 537 Free verse
06/25/2022 The Cycle 440 Quatrain
06/22/2022 Farewell South Carolina 832 Quatrain
06/22/2022 Unequally Yoked 455 Quatrain
06/20/2022 Feeling Safe 406 Rhyme
06/20/2022 His Final Cries 499 Rhyme
05/26/2022 Final Lessons 508 Free verse
05/26/2022 A Bee's Day 442 Rhyme
05/26/2022 You Don'T Call Me Baby Anymore 489 Monorhyme
04/13/2022 My Name Is Still Thompson 376 Rhyme
03/26/2022 Quiet Forests 446 Couplet
03/20/2022 Shot Glass 401 Rhyme
11/30/2021 The Twin Oak 373 Rhyme
11/30/2021 November Quatrain 464 Quatrain
11/19/2021 Agendaless Exuberance 341 Dizain
11/10/2021 Natural High 289 Rhyme
11/01/2021 Autumn Hush 281 Free verse
10/26/2021 The Dance 323 Rhyme
10/16/2021 The Picnic 435 Quatrain
10/13/2021 Free 230 Quatern
10/13/2021 An Autumn Move 332 Rhyme
09/23/2021 Memories Beautiful 495 Free verse
09/21/2021 They Are Not Called Dreadlocks 328 Quintain (Sicilian)
08/31/2021 Reflections 417 Free verse
08/27/2021 The Iron Lung, Fear Transcendence 509 Free verse
08/25/2021 Essence of Autumn 406 Verse
08/15/2021 The Twin Oak 239 Rhyme
07/14/2021 South Carolina Trees 371 Monorhyme
06/09/2021 New Age 572 Free verse
06/09/2021 Summer Speaks 322 Rhyme
06/08/2021 Grace For Home Hunting 588 Rhyme
05/30/2021 Lifeprints 271 Free verse
05/23/2021 Tomorrow Speaks 601 Free verse
05/20/2021 Transformation 301 Triolet
05/18/2021 Unconquerable 274 Rhyme
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Quotes

Quote Left Expect nothing. Quote Right
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Quote Left Don't hope. Then you'll never know disappointment. Quote Right
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Quote Left Jesus was single. Quote Right
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Quote Left Don't try to bring back yesterday. It will find you anyhow. Quote Right
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Quote Left Some people will follow anything even if it isn't going anywhere. Quote Right
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Quote Left The heartbeat of poetry is iambic pentameter. Quote Right
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Janis Thompson is a retired educator whose career involved teaching high school English, being a reading specialist and an administrator.   She is a mother and a grandmother of two who has been writing poetry since childhood.  Janis has a Bachelor's Degree from Juniata College and a Master's from Johns Hopkins University.  She enjoys watching vintage movies.


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