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30 Poems in November #5, Gas Stop

Posted on November 6, 2025 by alicebarrett

Gas Stop on the Road to the Promised Land Continue reading →

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Center for New Americans helps western Massachusetts Immigrants. Help them

Posted on November 6, 2025 by alicebarrett

The Center for New Americans Annual Fundraiser Helping Immigrants, refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers in Western Massachusetts. 30 Poems in November is our fundraiser and it is easy as pie. A group of Center supporters each writes 30 poems in one … Continue reading →

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Noises

Posted on May 7, 2025 by alicebarrett

How can we live with this? Continue reading →

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The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider

Posted on February 10, 2025 by alicebarrett

It is a kind of love, is it not? Continue reading →

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Poetry Race for the Center for New Americans!

Posted on November 15, 2022 by alicebarrett

This year I am joining the race to raise funds for the Center for New Americans in Northampton. This year we have new students from Ukraine and other countries around the world. From our director: Why it matters – Every … Continue reading →

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A Heavy Rain

Posted on November 12, 2021 by alicebarrett

I am standing in the rain, Just standing here, looking into the grey air, Getting wet. The sky is raining down all that is worst in our nature As if these things had always been with us, In threatening clouds … Continue reading →

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What Is New to Me Now, at 68

Posted on October 20, 2016 by alicebarrett

(Annual Greenfield Word Festival 2016) . What is new to me now, (don’t bother me with cell phones, legalized weed), . What is new to me now is constant war with no intervals of peace, What is new to me … Continue reading →

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Many Doorsteps

Posted on May 7, 2016 by alicebarrett

That Doorstep That doorstep trips you up every time. Look down, the key is under the bucket. Look up, watch your head. Watch, don’t let the cat out. Look behind, or the screen door will hit you. Put your bag … Continue reading →

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Time Does Not Repeat Itself

Posted on March 22, 2016 by alicebarrett

Oh no, time does not repeat itself, It spirals, perhaps, one turn reverberating on the others, But time does not repeat.   Nature’s variation is endless, Orderly, yet endless.   Everything done will be undone.   Everything undone waits for … Continue reading →

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On the Porch

Posted on December 7, 2015 by alicebarrett

  Listen to the quiet between the passing cars. Listen to the quiet after the neighbors argue. . Feel the rough pod before you break open the milkweed. Rest before speaking. (Under the blister, soft skin is healing.) . Under … Continue reading →

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