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About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

driving home

Life can be full of moments of peaceful contemplation and the beauty if we know how to find them.(#904) Continue reading

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what was left

The poem takes on the growing political will to abandon the arts. And it rhymes! Is this a song? an anthem? #903 Continue reading

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yesterday is coming

We are a society of lemmings, looking for the cliff Continue reading

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