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Guest Writer Spot

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It’s Friday and time for my Guest Writer Spot. If anyone would like their writing to appear on my blog, please get in touch.  I’m looking for stories and articles (up to 2000 words) and poems (up to 40 lines). You can  contact me here or by e-mail: esthernewton@virginmedia.com

Here is another thought-provoking poem from Gordon Simmonds:

Paschaendaele

Today the children play and the green fields echo with their laughter.

Not like then.

Then, there were no children.

Cold cloying mud subsumed the green fields,

And only satan and the shell shocked laughed.

Now, people live and love and work and sleep and dream of better things.

Not like then.

Back then the people fled in fear before the guns.

Before the guns created blood stained pools of corpse infested water.

Before the hell immortalized in prose and verse

Broke into the dreams of simple men.

In…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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