A VERY FEW WORDS ON HOME
I was not a happy child. In retrospect, I’m not sure why. I had good and loving parents. With my grandmother and her eccentric siblings...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Sep 9
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON PALACE OF WISDOM
I think I commented earlier that sometimes with wind and rain even the main channel of Wilson Creek becomes too choppy to enjoy, so we...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Sep 1
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ABOUT TRIDUUM
In the Roman Catholic tradition, ‘triduum” refers to the three central days of Easter: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter itself,...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Aug 25
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON WINTER FULL
Like it or not, the calendar has a way of sneaking up on us. I wrote this poem during advent in 2008. You can prepare for advent or not,...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Aug 18
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON MIRROR TO NATURE
Sometimes, with wind and rain, even the main channel of Wilson Creek gets too choppy to enjoy. On those days, we often tuck into the...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Aug 11
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON VICKSBURG’S FALLING
I wrote Vicksburg’s Falling on July 5, 2008, the day after the July 4 celebrations I didn’t attend. I would be just as happy if this were...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Aug 1
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON MEMORY OF EAGLES
Here are a very few words on how to achieve a transcendental experience in nature. First, get yourself alone on the water or mountain or...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 24
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON MADDIE IN THE RAINAND MADDIE REDUX
Maddie in the Rain is the first of several Easter poems in Chasing the Dragon, but you might not realize that if you don’t know Latin....
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 16
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON THE TIDES AT GLOUCESTER
The Tides at Gloucester is a pivotal poem for me. It marks the moment that I realized, city person as I remain, it’s the world of river,...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 5
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON THE DELAY OF EAGLES
We all want happy endings. In literature, we demand happy endings. Think of the ending of Lord of the Rings. Frodo and Sam trapped on a...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jun 18
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON THE PARADOX
I always try to tell stories with my poems, and for the most part, I try to keep abstraction to a minimal and stick to concrete, sensual...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jun 7
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON THROUGH EARTH, ETERNITY
Well, yes, if you’ve been reading Chasing the Dragon, you’ve read the final stanza of this poem before: it’s the beginning of The...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Apr 15
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON PERHAPS I’LL BUILD WITH WORDS
It’s easy to see my mother in me. We loved the same things: literature, Latin, theater – perhaps most of all theater: we’d go to local...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Mar 25
- 3 min
A FEW WORDS ON A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM
In 1970, at the age of 18, I was poised for my fifteen minutes of literary fame, if only my English professor had listened to me. We were...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Mar 14
- 2 min
A Few Words On Quickening The Pace
When I was younger, I used to ride, and I can attest to the fact that even the most sluggish horse will quicken the pace once he realizes...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Feb 13
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ABOUT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH
Okay, this isn’t going to be easy to write, and, if you’ve lost someone you love, it might not be easy to read. My mother died over 30...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jan 25
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON ESCAPING GRACEFULLY
I think I meant this poem to be as simple as a country song. God bless the Dixie Chicks or whatever they now call themselves. But there’s...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jan 19
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON WORLD WITHOUT END
How can I explain my grandmother to the world? Her name was Marion Reynolds Lawton, but we all called her Ba. Why, I have no idea, but it...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jan 9
- 2 min
A Few Words On Voices
I think I said at the very beginning of this enterprise that, like all writers, I write for myself. As I said last time “poetry makes...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Dec 10, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON POETS AND POETRY
I don’t think Patrick Kavanaugh is much known outside of Ireland, and that’s fair enough for a poet who declared that the proper world...
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