AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“HOPE,” is included this week for World Day Of Quiet, February 25. The poem was first published in the poet’s first chapbook, Glass Rain, Golden Rain.

REFRACTIONS—an essay by Kathleen Roxby

“The Language Of The Place,” continues the author’s exploration of language. This particular piece alludes to the history that etymology provides. It is included this week for February 21, United Nations International Mother Language Day.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS —the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“VISITING WITH OLD FRIENDS AND ENEMIES,” is included this week for World Day Of Quiet, February 25.

 

#worldquietday

#internationalmotherlanguageday

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Readers who write in response to one of the prompts listed each month in Splintered Glass, may see their work presented here on the last week of that month. Though poems are preferred, short prose work will also be considered for publication.

Guidelines for submission:

  1. List Splintered Glass prompt which inspired the work in the text of your email.
  2. Submit material to be published as Microsoft Word document. Submission should not be longer than one page. Editing will not be provided, please be careful.
  3. Include two brief sentences about the author. Example: Michael Whozits is the author of A Book and The Curl, a blog. He is a retired pilot and avid surfer.
  4. Submission must arrive no later than the 3rd Wednesday of the month in which the Splintered Glass prompt appeared. Only one reader’s submission will be selected for any given month.
  5. Send submission to karoxby@gmail.com.

 

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SPLINTERS FOR FEBRUARY 2024

  1. This month honors Send a Card to a Friend Day. While greeting cards are still sold, the fashion of mailing them seems to be waning in favor of electronic communication.
    1. Write a defense for this special day, explaining why a card might mean more than an email, text, etc.
    2. If you received a card, not a birthday or holiday card from a friend, how would react? Why?
  2. While much fuss is made for and about Valentines Day this month, what about Singles Awareness Day which focuses on the contributions made to our society by singles?
    1. Do you personally know of any unattached people whose contribution(s) should be honored? Tell us.
    2. Who is your favorite unattached person in history and why?
  3. World Day of Quiet (February 25) occurs this month and also touched on National Day of Unplugging (March 1).
    1. Do you think either day is necessary? Answer yes or no, and explain your reasoning.
    2. If you were in charge of how to celebrate either day, what would you plan and how would you execute those plans?
    3. How do you personally plan to spend either of these days?
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FOR THAT ONE MOMENT

One odd you-shaped piece of perfection

Isn’t that the dream –

To catch the perfect

To hold it long enough for others to know

The hope of a truth nearly within our reach?

Oh, yes, I think we agree it just might be enough

To justify a lonely, dissected life

The broken heart.

Go for that bit of immortality

For just that one odd

You-shaped

Piece of perfection.

 

 

#singleawarenessday

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VALENTINES

Forever signs

That I believe

God made sure

In our lifetime

That I’d be yours

And you’d be mine

 

#valentinesday

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A RIVER NIGHT

Small lights, blinking in the distance

Like diamonds set in the coal black hill

Small boats adrift, each with love aboard

Young lovers escaping a work dreary world

Slipping through the blue-black night

Of fantasy land complete with a falling star

The ultra quiet dip of an oar occasionally

Punctuates those soft whispers of love

A sudden unexplainable total quiet

Seems to silence those pledges of love

As the river ever slowly moves on by

 

#valentinesday

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AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“VALENTINES” was found among the poet’s papers. It is included for Valentines Day, February 14. The poet’s husband never forgot to remember her on Valentine’s Day each year of the fifty-two years of their marriage.

REFRACTIONS—a poem by Robert Roxby

“A River Night” was found in the poet’s writing journal with this note: “From a time of my wife’s youth.” It is included for February 14, Valentine’s Day.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“FOR THAT ONE MOMENT” is included this week for February 15, Singles Awareness Day.

 

#singlesawareness

#valentinesday

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Readers who write in response to one of the prompts listed each month in Splintered Glass, may see their work presented here on the last week of that month. Though poems are preferred, short prose work will also be considered for publication.

Guidelines for submission:

  1. List Splintered Glass prompt which inspired the work in the text of your email.
  2. Submit material to be published as Microsoft Word document. Submission should not be longer than one page. Editing will not be provided, please be careful.
  3. Include two brief sentences about the author. Example: Michael Whozits is the author of A Book and The Curl, a blog. He is a retired pilot and avid surfer.
  4. Submission must arrive no later than the 3rd Wednesday of the month in which the Splintered Glass prompt appeared. Only one reader’s submission will be selected for any given month.
  5. Send submission to karoxby@gmail.com.

 

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SPLINTERS FOR FEBRUARY 2024

  1. This month honors Send a Card to a Friend Day. While greeting cards are still sold, the fashion of mailing them seems to be waning in favor of electronic communication.
    1. Write a defense for this special day, explaining why a card might mean more than an email, text, etc.
    2. If you received a card, not a birthday or holiday card from a friend, how would react? Why?
  2. While much fuss is made for and about Valentines Day this month, what about Singles Awareness Day which focuses on the contributions made to our society by singles?
    1. Do you personally know of any unattached people whose contribution(s) should be honored? Tell us.
    2. Who is your favorite unattached person in history and why?
  3. World Day of Quiet (February 25) occurs this month and also touched on National Day of Unplugging (March 1).
    1. Do you think either day is necessary? Answer yes or no, and explain your reasoning.
    2. If you were in charge of how to celebrate either day, what would you plan and how would you execute those plans?
    3. How do you personally plan to spend either of these days?
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LIKE THE WORDS IN A POEM

Standing deep within

Zion’s canyons

The air whispers

Like words I heard

In a poem

 

I feel the sunset heat

Radiate from red stone

In walls rising up before me

Like words I heard

In a poem

 

Skin flayed and enraged

I huddle before

Cyclone winds whirling

Like words I heard

In a poem

 

Stilled, I stand

at the edge

As dawn gifts

The untouched to my eyes

Like words I heard

In a poem

 

#worldreadaloudday

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