The Common Threads That Connect Us All

Posted on November 24, 2021 by mitchteemley

CaptureMy Featured Blogger this week is Laura M. Bailey of All the Shoes I Wear, “my attempt,” she says, “to write down the bones of a crazy, random, uncharted life.” Indeed, this engaging, down-to-earth writer-poet has also been “a construction worker, grease monkey, public speaker, tattoo studio owner, music promoter, and race horse owner,” among other things. Her purpose here is to uncover “the common threads that connect us all.” And this brief gallery of life-affirming poems does just that!

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7 Responses to The Common Threads That Connect Us All

  1. OIKOSâ„¢- Art, Books & more says:
    November 24, 2021 at 12:09 pm

    Thanks for introducing, Mitch! Will head over to read. xx Michael

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  2. Heidi Viars says:
    November 24, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    Thanks, Mitch … what beautiful words!

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  3. K.L. Hale says:
    November 24, 2021 at 1:23 pm

    I love Laura! 💛Her writing and spirit are such treasures. Thank you, Mitch!

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  4. CommonSenseTom says:
    November 24, 2021 at 1:24 pm

    Laura M. Bailey
    the virtuoso of verse
    happy to meet you

    (5-7-5)

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  5. Steve Beckham says:
    November 24, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    Thank you, Mitch. Her poem about dancing with her father made me all misty-eyed as I remembered dancing with my daughter at her wedding.

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  6. seekingdivineperspective says:
    November 24, 2021 at 11:23 pm

    “If it ain’t one thing, it’s bound to be your mother.” 😂 Love it!
    I like old fashioned rhythm and rhyme, too, as uncool as some might think it is. I call those “lyric poems,” or just “song lyrics,” even if the melody hasn’t been written yet. The other poems are much harder to set to music – harder to memorize, too.

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