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New poem by Jay Sizemore

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Poem written for Malala Yousafzai

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Nature Debates Gun Control

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Poem about irrational fear, by Jay Sizemore

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LIFE LESSONS

Life Lessons in Dog Walking

My dog always stops to smell the roses blooming or not blooming by my neighbor’s mailbox, as if to say, there’s beauty here even if you can’t see it, just wait.

Every new scent must be cataloged, inspected and identified, from the honeysuckle falling over a church’s park fence to the latest piece of roadside trash discarded from a reckless window with pieces of themselves still attached.

Every new face must be greeted with a smile and an unencumbered joy that swells through the body like hot air inside a balloon, as if to say, oh, you live here too, isn’t it wonderful?

There’s awe to be found in the mundane sight and sound that is anything but mundane, unbridled pleasure released in each discovery of this, an ordinary life.