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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 244: Glowing Moments ~

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

Welcome to Siobhan Sullivan of Bend Branches, this week’s LAPC guest host, who throws the doors wide open with the theme Glowing Moments. While selecting photos, I realized that there were some images for which I had previously written haiku. … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #242: New Experiences ~

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Lindy Le Coq

The first day of first grade, our teacher asked her students to raise our hands if we couldn’t see what she had written on the chalk board. I raised my hand, so she directed me to a desk closer to … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #183: Memorable Events ~

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Lindy Le Coq

Those of you who have followed my blog are familiar with our wonderful beagle, Jello. Last month I featured her on Lens-Artists Challenge #178. Sadly, last week Jello passed away from congestive heart failure. She was with us at the … Continue reading →

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~ April Poetry Month ~ Daily Haiku and Social Commentary ~

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

These are not pretty. They are distillations of my observations and study of human behavior since I began to differentiate myself from others. Unhinged – a series of haiku 4/1/21 many synonyms for human insanity subtle nuances 4/2/21 careful portrayal … Continue reading →

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~ I Pledge Allegiance ~

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Lindy Le Coq

For the past three years I have made every effort to express my social opinions in other arenas, as I know not all my followers see things as I do. However, after the events at my nation’s capital January 6, … Continue reading →

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~ Prayer For My Country ~ ©Lindy Low Le Coq ~

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

Walking through wind and rain this morning of November 3, 2020, I send prayers of thanksgiving to my fellow citizens; you who stand in long lines masked and socially distanced           wending your way to the voting booth. … Continue reading →

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~ American Apartheid ~ A Poem ~

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

American Apartheid–Lindy Le Coq – June 3, 2020   Four hundred years of suppression, black men and women raped and murdered for being.   Jim Crow still alive in red-lined housing, unfunded schools, three strikes – you’re out, stop & … Continue reading →

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~ Report From the Edge of a Continent ~Bellyache ~  

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

     From fathomless depths,               after months in her belly,          heaps of human generated trash                             … Continue reading →

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~ Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97: Pastimes ~

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Lindy Le Coq

When I retired, eight years ago, my colleagues would ask me, “What are you going to do with your time?” My standard answer was that I planned to focus my energy on the creative passions I’d tucked in around the … Continue reading →

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~ Renewal ~ WPC: Growth ~

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Lindy Le Coq

This week’s photo challenge is to share an image that evokes the spirit of change and newness. Since I have committed myself to finish some long-delayed projects this year, I decided to share this photo of drawings, one done and … Continue reading →

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