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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

Life / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme

From Humble Dark Beginnings

I grew beneath the shadows where light was hard to find lay there amongst the darkness abandoned, left behind. I …

#Lorraine Hyde #metaphor #strength in adversity

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