"I searched my soul and found a song"
Peter’s Song
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

 "I was every song you ever sang"
Do You Remember
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

"Our life is like a crystal ball"
My Life is Like an Antique Pin
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

"Love illumines life"
Two Cardinals on a Snowy Branch
by Michael Escoubas

"How I wish to send you a love song"
Snow-like Yearning
by Bing Hua

"After the first kiss and before the first smile"
Then It Was Gone
by Mark Lipman

"The evening creek is flowing dark and deep"
Across the Bridge
by Jim Wilkerson

"The winter’s light was just tipping into memory"
Ruth and Mike Get Married
by D.R. James

"I believed the one I needed would find me"
Love’s Labour’s Lost: A Ghazal-Cento in Alexandrines
by James Green

"I offer you a peaceful heart"
I Would Love You if I Could
by Elayne Clift

"In shadows of distant memory"
Luck
by Mark Fleisher

"I saw you yesterday in the lake's reflection"
Belonging 
by jacob erin-cilberto

"Your face is etched in memory"
Your Face
by Vaughn Neeld

"It lets me wake to birdsong"
Tenderness
by Candace Armstrong

"Sparrows huddle in the evergreen"
February Longing
by Paulette Demers Turco

 "A tapestry of poetry"
A Murmur of Hope
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

"Her love, the same for one as for the other"
Two Cardinals on a Snowy Branch II
by Michael Escoubas

"I hear the songs of the Seventies"
The Earth Moved
by Vaughn Neeld

"The black briggs heirloom lent voice to her love"
black and white keys seventy-years later
by Marcel Aime Duclos

"I look for love in many other places"
Memoir Without Music
by MFrostDelaney

"One plea is that somehow he'll hear her sing again"
Having Served
by Paulette Demers Turco

"Faded melodies haunt"
Preludes & Overtures 
by Candace Turner

"Our tour boat anchored in a secluded, sheltered cove"
Rhine River Romance
by Gay Williford

"My heart still cries in forceful tongue"
Enduring Love
by Carole Mertz

"Uncertain of the love I felt"
Reprieve
by Bob Moore

Poetry Prompt for March 2025

&

Ekphrastic Prompt for March 2025

An Altar of Tides: Poems
by Peter Ludwin
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas

Boat of Many Colours
by Mike Barlow [editor]
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

Ballad of Life: And Other Poems
by Ian Smiddy
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas

Publisher: Unsolicited Press
How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide
by Pamela Miller

Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Night Music
by B. J. Buckley

From India, a breakfast drink, summer cooler or dessert
Mango Lassi
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

Laissez les bons temps rouler
Mardi Gras King Cake
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

One of the most delicious treats you’ll ever experience 
Bread Pudding 
from the kitchen of Robin Neuwirth

Oldies but goodies

Caviar Omelet
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

Valentine Salmon "Hearts"
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

Sara Wadington

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