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February 2024 A Super Bowl Poem • Haiku Trio #1 So who said: “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” — always, till today, brimming with Super-football-frenzy- -LVIII-Sunday, I believed grinning legendary Lombardi coined the famed catchphrase • • Haiku Trio #2 Google search says yes, he voiced this, but different coach spoke the saying first — so since, as we guess, it’s too easy to…
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#haiku#Kansas City Chiefs#Patrick Mahomes#poems#poetry#San Francisco 49ers#sonnet#Super Bowl#Super Bowl LVIII#Vince Lombardi#winning isn&039;t everything it&039;s the only thing
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All-Name Teams #32
January 2024Featuring names from across the world of sports • “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness” ― John Steinbeck • “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome” — Anne Bradstreet • “Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are…
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#Anthony McCloud#Aron Winter#Anne Bradstreet#basketball#boxing#Brenda Sue Fres#Daniel Geale#football#Garth Snow#George R.R. Martin #hockey#John Steinbeck#Nate Freese#Quevyn Winters#Sean Weatherspoon#seasons#soccer#storm#Storm Barrs-Woods#storms#Tavoris Cloud#Winter
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #18
Have you ever tried to catch lightning — how about fireflies?
• November 2023 +++ Fireflies light mind-and-heart reminiscence, nightlife aglow with wonder at Grammy and Pop-Pop’s countryside abode — condense dazzling amazement in solitary sonnet? Impossible — yet let’s still try: Chasing the lightning in one-acre yard, catching the bright mites by crook as they fly — place brilliant critters in punctured Ball jar to be luminous sentries…
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#childhood#childhood memories#countryside#fireflies#Grammy and Pop-Pop#growing up#lightning#lightning bugs#summer#summer memories
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All-Name Teams #31
Featuring names from across the world of sports • In the name of love — what more in the name of love? —Pride: In The Name Of Love — song by U2 • Deny thy father and refuse thy name … ’Tis but thy name that is my enemy … O, be some other name … What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. … doff thy name and, for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all…
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#Amare Stoudemire#Bebe Rexha#Bobby Valentine#Eden Hazard#In the Name of Love#Jamie Lovemark#Juliet#Lisa Love#Lovemore N’dou#Lovie Smith#Martin Garrix#Peter Lovenkrands#Pride In The Name Of Love#Romeo and Juliet#Shakespeare#U2#Vagner Love#Yeardley Love
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #17
Can a Trip to the Bathroom Inspire a Poem?
CAN A TRIP TO THE BATHROOM inspire a poem — and is poetry intended only for English classes and so-called boring textbooks? To find out, you’re invited to read this newest post from A Slow Life in the FAST Lane: • Let’s get this clear — the best poetry isn’t meant for English-major types and literary elites, but rather for everyone — after all, I believe every human being is a living story and…
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#Aslan#Bible#Bruce Cockburn#Bruce Cockburn: Pacing The Cage#Canton CT#Christ Jesus#Christian faith#Christian worldview#Church#church + world#Collinsville CT#Collinsville Walking Trail#Collinsville Walking Trail CT#Connecticut’s Farmington Valley#creation#creation-evolution#creation-evolution debate#CS Lewis#Ephesians#ESPN#ESPN Digital Media#ESPN.com#evolution#Farmington River Trail#Farmington River Trail CT#Farmington Valley#Farmington Valley CT#Farmington Valley Trail#Farmington Valley Trail CT#Google Map
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #16
Birth-Celebrating + Birthday Poem #2 +++ Slightly less emphatically than her bro (As ounces go) she appeared gracefully In my still-broken life with angel’s glow Befitting a daughter’s birth on hotly Contested, oh-blazing-like-sages day For the ages. From cradle, sensitive As springtime sky and summer-wild bouquet And autumn sun. Ice-like competitive Too — revealed as she grew and played on…
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#Andrew Wesley Tyson#Bruce William Deckert#Kayla Anneliese (Deckert) Tyson#Kayla Anneliese Deckert#Luke George Deckert#Mina Elizabeth Sykes Deckert#sonnets
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #15
FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #15
A Birth-Celebrating + Birthday Poem +++ He entered my still-broken world one bright Winter morn — ten pounds of emphatic boy, Wrapped sure in swaddling clothes of our delight, Incarnate miracle — tidings of joy! With newborn’s cries a symphony to start A trio, I held you — and your wailing Ceased as you rested close to your Dad’s heart. But memories of a father’s failing Sail along with newfound…
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #14
FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #14
A Wedding Poem +++ “With this ring I wed thee,” we pledged that day When diamond-vow made moons before our sun Gave cause to rise — we gave our lives away, By holy stream and forest wise undone. Un-secure I felt, undone still — sunset Vision, a beauty framed in brilliant light Descends from virgin clouds — can I forget Memory’s haunting dreams of son-sad night? Oh, still my hope of home, like…
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#body of Christ#bride#bride of Christ#Christian faith#Connecticut’s Farmington Valley#English sonnet#groom#Jesus of Nazareth#marriage#Olympic rings#Shakespearean sonnet#sonnet#wedding
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #14 • A WEDDING POEM “With this ring I wed thee,” we pledged that day When diamond-vow made moons before our sun Gave cause to rise — we gave our lives away, By holy stream and forest wise undone. Un-secure I was, undone still — sunset Vision, a beauty framed in brilliant light Descends from virgin clouds — can I forget Memory’s haunting dreams of son-sad night? Oh,…
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FAST Blast: Derek Redmond’s extraordinary Olympic story
FAST Blast: Derek Redmond’s extraordinary Olympic story
THE FOLLOWING ESSAY launched this faith-and-sports blog in August 2012, during the London Olympics. Nine years later, we’ve entered a COVID-Olympic time warp — in apparently unprecedented fashion, the Olympic Games are occurring in an odd-numbered year. Welcome to the 2020 + 2021 Tokyo Olympics — and I hope you enjoy the new version of this embryonic classic from A Slow Life in the FAST Lane ……
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#1988 Beijing Olympics#1992 Barcelona Olympics#2012 London Olympics#2020 Tokyo Olympics#British track star Derek Redmond#Derek Redmond#Jim Redmond#Malcolm Muggeridge#Olympic Games#standing ovation#Summer Olympics
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FAST Blast: Reflecting on unprecedented virus
FAST Blast: Reflecting on unprecedented virus
Posted — 31 January 2021 A year ago, when 2020 began, who could have predicted that a year later facemasks would be an ongoing medical fashion accessory in response to a global pandemic? This blog post is a revised version of an essay I first published in Today Magazine, the news vehicle I produce as publisher and editor-in-chief. Today Magazine covers the heart of Connecticut’s Farmington Valley…
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #13
FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #13
A CHRISTMAS SONNET Ancient sages perceived emerging star, Sought King they knew not, souls ablaze — yearning For goal of heart’s wandering — babe from afar Found, night’s mute sky-speech lending true learning. Two thousand years, wisdom’s cry is the same: Bright starfields and warm earth-haven reveal Royal design and seal, speak sovereign name — Such a King comes calling, all wise men…
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #12
A Sonnet in Honor of George Floyd + Other Victims of Racial Injustice Across American History + Police Who Grieve Such Violence and Protect and Serve Citizens of All Races
A Sonnet in Honor of George Floyd + Other Victims of Racial Injustice Across American History + Police Who Grieve Such Horrifying Violence and Serve Citizens of All Races
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Does righteous rage burn and cleanse in the hearts Of all my Afri-friends? Forebears beckoned Here, captive cargo … see how hope departs From Africa on spectral ships — reckoned Three-fifths human by court’s supreme cruelty…
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#Africa#African violet#African-Americans#Emancipation Proclamation#George Floyd#Lady Liberty#lynching#racial equity#racial injustice#slave trade#slavery#Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision#Three-Fifths Compromise
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FAST Fiction: Fall Classic Dream State #11
FAST Fiction: Fall Classic Dream State #11 — Once upon a couch, I was home watching the pregame show before Game 5 of the 2000 World Series ... but I fell asleep just before the first pitch, and soon I began to dream
“I still have a dream … I have a dream today.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Here in my heart there’s a dream that’s unbroken And it gets in my way, but it won’t be denied. Oh, here in my heart, the door is still open Waiting for you to walk into my life. — Chicago • American rock band
• Fall Classic Dream State: Part 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10
Once upon a couch, I was home watching the…
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#2000 World Series#2004 ALCS#9/11#Broadway#Canyon of Heroes#Empire State Building#Fall Classic#Martin Luther King Jr.#Mets#Nelson Mandela#Red Sox#Subway Series#Twin Towers#Yankees
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All-Name Teams #30
All-Name Teams — featuring names from across the world of sports • IN HONOR OF LEAP YEAR 2020: All-Time Team + All-Day Team
Featuring names from across the world of sports
IN HONOR OF LEAP YEAR 2020
February 29th: A birthday so awesome that the world can only handle it once every four years! — Internet meme
The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep, and leapt them over. — William Shakespeare • Henry IV
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
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#Adrian "All Day" Peterson#Boo Weekley#Brenden Morrow#Dayan Diaz#Early Doucet#K.J. Noons#Kevin Cheveldayoff#Oday Aboushi#Rickie Weeks#Ron Hornaday
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FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace #11
Sonnets in Cyberspace — A Slow Life in the FAST Lane blog • Observing and celebrating the art of the four seasons, beginning with winter
THE SONNET might be the best poem for time-challenged 21st century readers — forgoing lengthy free verse, the sonnet aims to concisely convey its subject in 14 power-packed lines.
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Come winter Your canvas is bare and gray — But for pine and hemlock splotches, wood’s scene Speaks silence, waits for April rain to play. Each spring You sing the lifeless canvas green, Add kaleidoscope of color…
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#art#autumn#canvas#creation#Creator#fall#Judeo-Christian worldview#Master Artist#masterpiece#palette#seasons#spring#summer#Winter
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All-Name Teams #29
ALL-NAME TEAMS: All-Christmas Team + All-Star Team — featuring names from across the world of sports
Featuring names from across the world of sports
• All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” — which means “God with us.” |• Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship…
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#Anastasia Rodionova#Brady Morningstar#Brenda Frese#Emmanuel Ekpo#Gary Nova#kate starbird#Omar Infante#Patrick Towles#Richie Incognito#Starlin Castro
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