Tag Archives: Margo Roby

Cup of Tea

Posted on July 20, 2014 by T A Hillin-Smith

deep blue sky reflected in a cup of green tea

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Daydreams from the Poetry Gryoscope

Posted on April 30, 2014 by T A Hillin-Smith

I would never have heard about the Poetry Gyroscope without Margo.  I used words from haiku I have posted on this blog and experimented with every author option (except Shel Silverstein) on the Gyroscope page–e.e. cummings, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, … Continue reading →

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Life at the Card Table

Posted on July 5, 2013 by T A Hillin-Smith

It’s hard to tell now what the hand holds. The House shows a pair of teacups, fomenting verdant highways. So braided clematis vows and trilled cotton diapers discarded. If only to draw straight bruised piano keys or royal pages, photos, … Continue reading →

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Poetry Defines It

Posted on July 3, 2013 by T A Hillin-Smith

distance 1. The extent of space between two objects or places; an intervening space. When we were one what was between us? 2. The fact or condition of being apart in space; remoteness. What permeated the skin from my soul to yours? … Continue reading →

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Distant Summer

Posted on June 26, 2012 by T A Hillin-Smith

summers were friends earth-brown from picking snow-white clouded fields daily library visits and a stack of books I can’t quite carry tackle football with a crowd of cousins in the field beside grandfather’s corn cane-pole fishing and catching a few … Continue reading →

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