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Hoeftra• Show poetry

A writer all of my life. Moist sandboxes are great for leaving notes to the little girls in kindergarten. Even if they were tromped out the moment feet arrived. I have written my way through a life that seems eternal. I see a scholar who chronicalled the Greek Senate from within, a traveler documenting far voyages to exotic places, a tinkerer making notes of forgotten inventions, all long ago times and places. Before that, even, a story teller who made his place among peoples with his verbal songs for his place among them. Or a vagabond troubadoor romping hills with songs on his tongue for one sweet girl or another. In modern times I have been a newspaper reporter, copy editor, promotion director, newsletter maker, editor, free-lance business writer, prolific if uneven poet, and now, novelist. I will always be a writer. If word processors ceased functioning, if manual typewriters were all beaten to junk by my heavy hands, I would write on the cave walls left to me or pound words in stone. In the end, I would draw figures in the sand. HOEFTRA

  • Last seen on Nov 12 7:46 AM. Member since October 18, 2008.
  • I'm a aventurine thought poet for 59 comments.
  • My mood is , and quote is "By turns sweet or ornery".
  • I am a 65 year old man from North Carolina (United States)
  • When I'm not writing, I'm Writing.
  • I support the site as a gold member
  • I have 59 comments, 3 columns, 37 poems

My Poetry

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  • In The Sun
    Standing in the Sun
    Trees open curtain Shades
    10 lines, 4 comments, October 26
  • Untitled
    Aching like the worst sentiment of love
    pain like the heartbeat of loss
    12 lines, 7 comments, September 22
  • My Mother In A Book
    Mother, her quiet wisdom was listening;
    she did not need to respond as I talked
    17 lines, September 10
  • Loving Touch
    14 lines, September 2. In Adult, Erotica, Love

My other items

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  • Column: Quibble Notes: Writing Poetry at allpoetry
    (SEE ORIGINAL QUBBLE NOTES)
    Infrequent Remarks on THE ART OF POETRY as I Practice It; None Other.
    I speak for no one else but myself, the way I write poetry, my subjects, what inspires me, or special ways I think that might yield a poem. And none
  • Column: Quibble Notes at allpoetry
    See initial column "Quibbles" These are the sometimes everyday notes that qualify in my definition of quibbling, not the dictionarys. Small to collosal, they are ideas, lists, other things to share with anyone or everyone here. I hope someone will read it
  • Column: Quibbles at allpoetry
    To "quibble" is to carp, grouse, find fault, or draw hairs of distinction in others arguments. This is not that kind of quibble. I give you a new definition of quibble, my own. Quibble (verb) irrevant discussions of the trivial or mundane to the startlin

Guest Book

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  • Aesthete2000 on June 24
    TO ALL WHO MIGHT WONDER WHERE HOEFTRA HAS BEEN, HERE IS THE UPDATE:
    IN HOSPITAL AND REHABILITATION TO HEAL TWO BROKEN LEGS. NO ACCESS TO COMPUTER. WILL POST IF I LEARN ANY MORE!

    M-C
  • Aesthete2000 on April 2
    One of your many identities,
    "Whodunnit" character, John...
  • Aesthete2000 on March 25
  • Aesthete2000 on March 25


    Sorry, clicked on the wrong line!!!

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