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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Joe Maita reads Lynn White’s poem at its conclusion.
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Tima Miroshnichenko/via Pexels.com
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Times Gone By
They were the best of times.
They were the worst of times.
Or so it is said.
And now the new times
look much like the old times.
And now we look much like the old
versions of ourselves
looking for love,
rejecting glory.
Living in our time.
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Listen to Joe Maita read Lynn White’s poem
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Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. Click here to visit her website, and here for her Facebook page.
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Listen to the 2004 recording of drummer Paul Motian performing the Oscar Hammerstein II/Jerome Kern composition “I Have the Room Above Her,” with Joe Lovano (saxophone); and Bill Frisell (guitar). [Universal Music Group]
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War. Remembrance. Walls. The High Price of Authoritarianism – by editor/publisher Joe Maita
“The Sound of Becoming,” J.C. Michaels’ winning story in the 70th Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest
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