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The Orchestra

The orchestra starts and the notes dart as the audience sways the notes play the basses start their solo continuing the song La Polo the audience stirs and the applause thunders the song end...

Is Anything Real?

Oh, what a tangled web we weave Doing our best to deceive, con artists aplenty Attracting get rich schemes galore Internet and smartphone gizmos and more used to implore. Some get rich schem...

Haiku to Spring

Trees are leafing out Daffodils wave in the breeze Spring is here - achoo! Carol Simmons Durango ...

GOP ‘believes in autocratic rule’

While reading the story about the Republican gathering of the lunatic fringe in Colorado Springs, I had to fight off the tears of laughter as each speaker floundered in their primordial ooze...

Sweet Sound

Sweet sound of music fills the air it does everywhere you can hear the sound of the violin play but you can hear the whole orchestra play sweet songs that welcome another day. Jordyn Hen...

A Poem Starts

Friction of pencil on paper Sets it all in motion. Dry scraping sound Uncovers worlds locked in silence. Until the scraping starts There’s no form; there’s nothing. The scraping is the mirac...

Herald ‘mischaracterizes’ Florida law

The Herald’s predisposition for left-wing causes has actually gotten worse lately. Saturday’s editorial cartoon about “Don’t Say Homo” with a caricature of Ron DeSantis is a case in point. ...

Mountain Muses

It is the dawn breaking over their peaks That shimmers the morning’s glory in glowing valleys. Mountains, as poets, often speak in cloud stanzas, Seducing my emotions and binding me to the W...

Who Are You?

Who are you my friend? A person with a good heart? Someone who will care? If so, go for it. See what happiness you bring. When speaking aloud. Let fear go away. Drop it off and walk away. Ne...

Chaco Canyon

It’s breezy in Nageezi, down a lonely, dusty road. Ancient Great Houses anchored to the earth, resting under blankets of sand and sage. They count the millennia as the earth breathes up a du...

Rocky Mountain Hike

Resting On a granite slab left by a retreating glacier At the shallow edge of an alpine lake. Scents of spruce and fir mingle With the harsh complaint of a Steller’s jay. Heartbeat slowing, ...

Teach kids ‘differences okay’

As a pastor and parent, I was disturbed to read in The Durango Herald (April 8) that a state Social Studies Review Committee has decided to recommend banning any reference to LGBTQ people in...
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