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Dr. Roger Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,150 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Some of the magazines that have accepted his poems for publication are: Westward Quarterly, Jerry Jazz, SP Quill, Avocet, Underground Voices, Outlaw Poetry, Literary Fever, Dance of my Hands, Language & Culture, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Stray Branch, Toasted Cheese, Tipton Poetry Journal and Indigo Rising, Down in the Dirt, Fullosia Press, Orbis, Penwood Review, Subtle Tea, Ambassador Poetry Award Massachusetts State Poetry Society, Louisiana State Poetry Society Award 2019, Arizona State Poetry Society Award 2020, Mad Swirl Anthology 2018. 2019.
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One Step From the Past
it fell from me,
a cut within,
opening,
releasing past
spirits
onto crossroads
of unusual travel,
past side streets
and alleys
leaving behind
distressed wreckage
and unexplained
endings
where the brave
and exhausted
eventually meet
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Just Me
solitary,
being alone
when surrounded,
mourning without tears,
reliving the past
while believing
the first words
of the
relationship
can be repeated
remembering
when pockets
were full
of sun and moon
reflecting the glass
of a calm ocean
as birds swarmed
overhead
proving miracles did
exist
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