D. J. Reddall
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I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
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Into the Valley
I have always found serendipitous links between literature and life stimulating. "Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred." I probably don't need to tell most of you that this line comes from Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1854 poem, "The Charge of The Light Brigade." Coincidentally, I just published my six hundredth Vocal contribution (most are mediocre poems, but there are a few works of fiction and some silly essays about hockey and annoying linguistic trends in the mix). I ought to thank L.C. Schäfer, Rachel Deeming and Gerard DiLeo for keeping L.C.'s "publish once a day for the whole of 2024" challenge alive; it moved me to keep writing despite various, distracting existential givens. The other participants wrote microfictions, whereas I was primarily a poet, but we all got it done. Please read their work, as they not only published once a day for a year, but all three have extraordinary wit and skill:
By D. J. Reddallabout a year ago in Motivation
Overtime
Returning to work Seems increasingly absurd As one grows older
By D. J. Reddallabout a year ago in Poets
Sunny Boy
Smiling platitudes Smug, vain, vacuous bromides An empty costume
By D. J. Reddallabout a year ago in Poets
