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Poetry Month 1: A Recitation of "Porphyria's Lover"
An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."
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![I Suppose it's Fall: A Poem](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/703c47_a47e518317b740259164ceb6d91ec1ef~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/703c47_a47e518317b740259164ceb6d91ec1ef~mv2.webp)
Nov 15, 20241 min read
I Suppose it's Fall: A Poem
The leaves and acorns fall and leave a densely populated gram on the cemented places that should still be nature places. The weather is...
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Jun 21, 20243 min read
On the Providence of Summer (And Why I Hate It)
As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...
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![Notes from the Hospital: A Prose-Poem](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/703c47_62b861d341864f43b1757a924149913c~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/703c47_62b861d341864f43b1757a924149913c~mv2.webp)
May 24, 20242 min read
Notes from the Hospital: A Prose-Poem
They said it was bad and my decision to come saved my life. Ten and a half hours in the emergency room, I spoke maybe a few words to my...
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May 19, 20242 min read
Blue Collar Poems
Special to the Blog: a little late, but still within "the week." A few down-to-earth, blue collar poems. Enjoy! Raised Right We are...
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Feb 23, 20242 min read
Poetry Month 4: Your Spirit Eternal
It's been nice sharing some poetry with you this month. If it's not been your thing, I'm sorry. I'll be back in March with more new...
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Feb 16, 20242 min read
Poetry Month 3: Love Poems (I Promise)
A little belated St. Valentine's Day present-- some legitimate love poems, not my usual unrequited odes. Love one another. Some of these...
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Feb 9, 20241 min read
Poetry Month 2: Stormborn
Stormborn: A Poem Peter, come out of the clouds. You fly too high. The virtues of the ground outweigh reaching for the crib. Born of the...
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Feb 2, 20242 min read
Poetry Month 1: Three Poems for Madeline
I've decided February is Poetry Month on the ryanctittle.com blog. Seems an appropriate month. It brings out romance for some, sadness...
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Nov 10, 20232 min read
The Reason: A Veterans Day Prose-Poem
At a bachelor party in the prairies. Here for my friend’s wedding. I have nothing in common with these men in uniform, but am happy to be...
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Sep 29, 20238 min read
A Writer Looks at Forty
Yes, I am a poet (playwright), two hundred years too late… I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, choking me. When I...
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Aug 11, 20239 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 4/New Publication Announcement
This week, I’ll catch us up on two weeks of rehearsal as the opening date of Waiting for Godot at BFT barrels toward us. Week 3 It is a...
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Jun 2, 20231 min read
My Poem Won a Prize!
I am so excited to announce that a poem of mine, "The Rain Dance," has won 2nd Prize in Blue Institute's Words on Water Writing Contest...
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Mar 31, 20231 min read
Descent to Timon's Cave: A Video Recitation
Something a little different today: a video recitation of my new poem, "Descent to Timon's Cave."
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Mar 17, 20231 min read
Two Devotional Poems
Two devotional poems, in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The first is freely translated from the Latin. The second, freely translated from...
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![No One Tells You: A Poem](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/703c47_2774b203f8b14cbb86ff182eaa60f2c8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/703c47_2774b203f8b14cbb86ff182eaa60f2c8~mv2.webp)
Feb 24, 20231 min read
No One Tells You: A Poem
There are things you assume you know— the waves of emotion, the choice of conflagration or inhumation, the cavern in your heart. But...
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Aug 19, 20221 min read
Poem: "August Night, 1972"
This summer poem was written based on several photographs in family albums. The sickly sweet smell of ground water, George Jones singing...
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