Nashville Arts Magazine » POETRY http://nashvillearts.com Nashville's Source for All Things Creative Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:58:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Poetry | “Summer Thirst” http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/poetry-%e2%80%9csummer-thirst%e2%80%9d/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/poetry-%e2%80%9csummer-thirst%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:55:36 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=5844 Several times

I’ve gone to God

About our love

And what to make of it.

The response is always the same . . . let him love you!

Seems irreverently invalid,

For a…

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I will write one thousand poems about hummingbirds.

I will take them to Japan and study origami.

Each poem will become a cut and folded replica of a childhood memory.

Flashing, fitful, fanciful moments that I am…

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Gina Raye Felts is a fourth-generation native Nashvillian and a 2009 graduate of Nashville State Community College with an Associate of Arts in Art. She works in various media including textiles, watercolor and, most recently, verse. She is a…

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I Had a Dream By Nevin Compton Trammell I had a dream that some force picked me up and put me down in some new and different town that I had never seen before with small shops and church

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By Mary Elizabeth Holden, Survivor

Now…You…Lose! I won’t be silenced by your thoughts. Nor by the words you say. I won’t be buried in my hole. Today is a brand new day.

The wrong you did won’t be forgot.…

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