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About Me
- Annie Finch
- An award-winning poet, author, translator, playwright, critic, editor, teaching artist, and performer of poetry and ritual, Finch is the author of several poetry collections known for their earth-spiritual themes, musicality, and craft, including Calendars, Eve, Spells, and the feminist epic Among the Goddesses, as well as numerous books on the art of poetry that emphasize women’s voices and the spiritual aspects of the art. A graduate of Yale with a Ph.D. from Stanford, Finch has received the Sarasvati Award for Poetry from the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for lifetime contributions to the art and craft of Versification. Her poetry has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry and onstage at Carnegie Hall. She offers talks, rituals, and workshops on poetry, poetics, ritual writing, and female-centered spirituality at conferences and gatherings.
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I walk Cocoa Beach daily--never knew the grand treasures at my feet were this colorful!
world in a grain of sand!
We will get this solved for sure. Our persistence predicts success! How I love your posts, and that we can help one another to communicate with this technology despite any impediments it might present......like grains of sand-individual and specific-we stand alone and together to make miracles.
Ms.
Dear faithful readers,
I was concerned to see that some folks were having technical trouble posting comments on American Witch...and with the very kind help of some of you, I have been working to address those issues and make it easier to post. It seems to be working now! Thank you so much for your persistence and generosity! Annie
Many thanks to you, Ms!!!
An Old Friend
Visited a dear old friend today;
been a long time since I’ve seen her.
It was good to see her again. I missed her.
I think she was glad to see me too.
She gave me a little wave and we embraced.
She’s been a friend of the family, it seems,
for almost forever, since I was a child at least,
and our affection was never misplaced.
As lives change and fortunes drift
it’s good to have a friend who’s always there,
someone constant and wise who offers
no rejection and never changes,
to fill your cup with a helping hand.
It was good to see her again…always the same
in her wrinkled old blue and white shift.
But though welcoming and willing to listen,
very old and somewhat nervous, never still,
ever tending her garden, feeding her birds or,
with delicate care, her seaside souvenir collection
continuously rearranges, always fussing over
and smoothing the sand.
Copyright 2010 - Ponds and Lawns-New and Corrected Poems, Gary B. Fitzgerald
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