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After “Desiderata” (Collection)

Contestants were asked to respond to the timeless message of Max Ehrmann’s 1927 poetic prose essay. Their winning entries follow …

#Dana Evans #Dave Douglas #Deborah F. Thomas #Grant Nelson #hope #inspiration #Josh Daniel #Joy A. Burki-Watson #Lorraine Hyde #love #peace

. Romantic / Free Verse / Nature

Muse of the Daylily

And so you uprooted me a common clump of grass from some miry ditch deeply shadowed by sixty six branches …

#daylily #inspiration #opening #Stella Page #sun

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