{"id":6584,"date":"2014-04-05T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2014-04-05T07:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T07:31:39","slug":"frank-c-praeger-for-national-poetry-month-in-the-us-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/frank-c-praeger-for-national-poetry-month-in-the-us-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank C. Praeger for National Poetry Month in the US and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once More, For Betzabe\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Are you happy?<\/p>\n

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Is the wind blowing within you?<\/p>\n

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Does a mourning dove rest on your shoulder?<\/p>\n

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Do you wear in your lapel murmurs and caresses of your mother?<\/p>\n

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Are you conversant with the muted stirrings of yourself?<\/p>\n

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Have you washed in the rivulets of your sorrow?<\/p>\n

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Do you vanish with the passing of each day?<\/p>\n

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Can traces of yourself be found among leftover memorabilia?<\/p>\n

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And the geese, are the geese flying through your head?<\/p>\n

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And the grass, is its memorable uprightness yours?<\/p>\n

And whose silence is it that you have listened for so intently?<\/p>\n

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Are you happy?<\/p>\n

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Frank C. Praeger<\/strong> is a retired biologist who lives in the Keweenaw which is a peninnsula that juts out from the northwest corner of the Upper Pennisula of Michigan into Lake Superior.\u00a0 His poetry has appeared in various journals in both UK and USA.<\/p>\n

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