"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Thursday, December 16, 2021

R.E. Slater - A Maple Burst in Autumn Temper






A maple burst in autumn temper

Upon golden rays of warming sun

In playful breezes pushing hard

Scattering dancing leaves o'er wilding fields.


R.E. Slater
December 16, 2021
March 23, 2022

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Hard winds howled in full blow

Battering frail shaking window panes

Roaring fury across a black night's lays

Unseen its fell labors till morning light

Twisting, fallen timbers of ancient souls.


R.E. Slater
December 16, 2021
March 23, 2022

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Fiery blazes swept earth and sky

O'er woodland choruses filling tilted ear

Where streaming, sunny shadows quietly fell

Radiating forested leys flush with golden charms

Hurtling an earthbound heart heavenwards

Crying, Glory!


R.E. Slater
December 16, 2021
March 23, 2022

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