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Writing

Posted on August 20, 2017 by

Writing is self-indulgent, she said. I smiled, but thought, “So is eating but we have to do it.” Maybe she doesn’t but writing to me is as necessary as eating. ©2017 Sharron R. McMillan

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Alden Nowlan – Great Canadian Poet

Posted on July 26, 2017 by

I’ve spent days on the couch with Alden Nowlan, took him to bed, soaked in the tub together and still, I wonder, where is his greatness. Is it in his prolific scribbling or in his disciplined mailing out to any … Continue reading →

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So Where Was I

Posted on June 19, 2017 by

So, where was I in my life story? I left. That was not the end but the beginning. I could write scenes, of a naïve young woman taken for a joy ride through half her life or how she survived … Continue reading →

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A Poem by any other name. . .

Posted on March 22, 2017 by

. . . is still a Poem.

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A Writer

Posted on March 21, 2017 by

A Writer is simply a Photographer of Thoughts. Brandon A. Trean

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Our Eyes

Posted on February 8, 2017 by

Our eyes are the mirrors of our minds, the reflectors of our personality and our character. We have but one pair and they must last a lifetime. ~Sharron R. McMillan (I wrote this when I was 14 years old.)

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Just A Poet

Posted on January 27, 2017 by

I am just a poet not a spinner of yarns, my characters hold love and hope in their arms. Concise and spartan my words on the page, not padded with phrases that try to sound sage. Between words and pictures … Continue reading →

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Dancing With Memories

Posted on January 19, 2017 by

“Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she’d take a memory or two down from the shelf and dance with them for a while.” ~Ari Berk

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Just When

Posted on January 18, 2017 by

Just when I think I have figured it out and my muse shows up with creative shout, just when my day dreams slide off of the fence and my theorizing finally makes sense, just when my memories float up from … Continue reading →

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Dear Words

Posted on December 4, 2016 by

And as I wander on the roads I shall be helped and healed and blessed; Dear words shall cheer and be as goads To urge to heights before unguessed. My road shall be the road I made; All that I … Continue reading →

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I Need An Enema For My Mind

Posted on November 17, 2016 by

I need to purge all the words that constipate my brain, get all backed-up thoughts loose and flowing again, mental fibre to move the great thought that somehow I just forgot, a pill that will raise instead of lower the … Continue reading →

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