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  • Pilgrim Verse-A Short Rhyme for the New Year
    My Poems | Rhymes for Reflection

    Pilgrim Verse-A Short Rhyme for the New Year

    ByJody Lee Collins January 16, 2026February 12, 2026

           To hear me read this poem, click HERE. I am the map, I will show you the way Landmarks, sideroads, the places you’ll stay. Then moving slowly, aware of the limits of speed that are posted; this journey-stay in it. I’ll reveal the direction, post signs that you need Aware of your…

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  • Monet’s Haystacks – On Keeping at It
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    Monet’s Haystacks – On Keeping at It

    ByJody Lee Collins September 15, 2025January 27, 2026

    Monet’s Haystacks (or On Keeping at It) Monet painted haystacks one by one from 1890 to ’91, In all kinds of weather, Spring through Fall, Summer and winter he painted them all. Twenty-five haystacks—that’s a lot of paint But he simply kept going, this artistic saint. He prayed with his brushes and oils and such…

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  • My Grandkids Asked Me–A Rhyming Poem & Invitation
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    My Grandkids Asked Me–A Rhyming Poem & Invitation

    ByJody Lee Collins August 1, 2025February 11, 2026

    Complaints are afoot in certain close quarters That my poems don’t rhyme, they’re merely imposters. The grandchildren ask me, “Is that how you write one? I’m not really sure, Nana, your kind’s the right one.” “There’re no matching endings, really no reasoning. It’s like eating roast beef without any seasoning. Tasteless and boring, and lacking…

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  • How to Be a Poem
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    How to Be a Poem

    ByJody Lee Collins October 8, 2021January 27, 2026

    God with us in the broken place. E manu el, Yahweh whose hand steadies and steers us while we lift our face. Prayers rise. We cannot transform a heart but we can tend and feed the bodies housing hope, care for roses, prune and weed, wash and fold, clothe the people who inhabit our petitions….

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  • How to Measure Time {a #poem}
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    How to Measure Time {a #poem}

    ByJody Lee Collins July 8, 2021January 27, 2026

    I swerved around a swallowtail today, its goldblackblue mosaic translated across the glass and gone. Street’s curbed outline caught the corner of my eye as the colorburst startled me to noticing, awakened me to a sight just past the neighbors. A sudden glimpse of canines at their master’s feet—heads anon, ears aperk—then they rose and…

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  • Contemplate {a #poem}
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    Contemplate {a #poem}

    ByJody Lee Collins June 21, 2020January 27, 2026

    I’ve no chisel but this penchipping at paper like stone,carving words, not to build but bendgraphite like steel, curve the bones (Dear God, not break) but lay in place and thenform a space to hold a new edifice,sculpt and rest and tap some morewhile You hand me bricks to begin, restore.***The word contemplate is from…

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  • Accompaniment {a #poem}
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    Accompaniment {a #poem}

    ByJody Lee Collins May 19, 2020January 27, 2026

    Birds, their tones both winged and brightHarmonize from branches out of sightKnow their parts, score memorizedFlash and zoom before my eyes. Soprano, alto, second, bassThroaty praises from branchy placeEcho, float, reverberateA pause, then celebrate Mornings’ rise first slow and quietAgainst dull backdrops now a riotTheir songs a span of treble and bassBackground my day, this…

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  • Writer’s Break {a #poem}
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    Writer’s Break {a #poem}

    ByJody Lee Collins March 30, 2017January 27, 2026

    I’ve been awash in words of late, missing out on the wind waving through steel branches, blue and white sky. Eyes too crowded to take note of the weather which goes on without me, whether I watch it or not. A glance through the dining room glass speaks loudly in all caps. I am listening….

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  • Writing Down the Bones {a #poem}
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    Writing Down the Bones {a #poem}

    ByJody Lee Collins September 29, 2015January 27, 2026

    Something has been said about “writing down the bones” which sounds like a good practice if you’re learning anatomy. But the first time I heard the phrase, I thought it was “writing down the poems,” So I am. Writing down the poems moving my bones, the ligaments lightly holding the pen– black on paper, blue,…

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  • I’ve Been Asking {a #poem}
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    I’ve Been Asking {a #poem}

    ByJody Lee Collins September 8, 2015January 27, 2026

    I’ve been asking Jesus, because He said I could(ask)about a Five Year Plan–like a plannable annuitywith a guaranteed returnon my investment.As if….as if a sure answer formy tomorrows wouldbring me peace today.He whispers instead what’s doable–The five hour plan–a clump of time allotted to,say, oh, baking a pie.Manageable, like a tried and truerecipe–gather ingredientscheck ovendouble check recipeslice,…

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