Tag: poetry
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Cypress Cities
Visit the only bald cypress blackwater swamp habitat in Wake County and you will feel like you’ve stepped back through the ages. ~from Robertson Millpond Preserve brochure, Wake County Parks and Recreation I finally had a weekend “off” and was able to join Melissa and Megan on a Museum educator workshop, Find Your Muse on Read more…
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Red-belly
Red-belly ~A poem by Melissa Dowland, images by Mike Dunn Down in my woods grows a graceful old oak With a stout trunk and a crown of branches, Splitting like feathers, reaching for the sky. It has stood, thus, for centuries. Nearby, a smaller maple. Its crown lost in an ice storm, A few broken Read more…
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Poetry with Wings
There was a poetry reading yesterday at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill entitled Poetry with Wings. As part of the Garden’s Saving Our Birds programming initiative this Fall, five local poets were invited to read poems that touch on birds in some way It was a wonderful event with a wide range Read more…
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