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W. Barrett Munn
Member since June 30, 2026
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Once While Coming Down Mt. Charleston By Car
Rounding a corner,
near the bottom of Mount Charleston,
almost down to desert flat land,
I’m shocked
to see a pair of Golden Eagles
standing at the edge of the road.
Las Vegas is a mere ten minutes
away where gold
is the only language spoken,
and the birds serve cocktails
while less beautiful creatures
sit and marvel
pushing buttons, pulling handles.
I slow as I pass magnificence,
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awed by the eagles’ great size.
The golden suns begins to set.
My shadow elongates. By the time
I reach the desert flats, the eagles
have evaporated.
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on Slow Torture of Not Being a Real W.B. from @Lavender
"What lovely irony - you ARE a W.B.! I love everything about this. I can relate so well, and it makes me smile. Actually chuckle... I might change "the" to "that" in the final line to give it a heavier stomp, but that's…" -
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on What Was Once Beautiful from @Lavender
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on When Coffee Dies from @Geezer
"the irony of the caffeine-fix as being the new drug in the office. We used to be worried about our kids being drug addicts, [weed or otherwise] now, we worry that they are ruining their kidneys and livers with caffeine…" -
03 FriCritiqued
"Worn shoes on the cold sidewalk" by @hawk256
"There are a lot of interesting ideas here. The walk between two people separated could be expanded. Good thoughts here. Where the poems falls short is in the telling rather than showing of the actions. Revision amounts…" -
01 WedCritiqued
"Another Life" by @hbserge
"I agree with AI that the strongest point in your poem is: My mind has settled down/ Take me hand/ Let's leave this town. Why does that work? First, it's visual, creating a scene we can imagine. Poetry is, after all, sto…" - June 2026
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30 TueNew follower
@kellustzall
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30 TueFirst publication
Lions As Poetry
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30 TueCritiqued
"Flood" by @kellustzall
"The first stanza is engaging and interesting. Unique ways of saying things. "orange heaven beyond my vision" "Take me to the center cold" "the sun blue melts through" These are all excellent and create curiosity as to w…" -
30 TueCritiqued
"Love" by @Marykathleen Mantle
"You have a nice innate sense of rhythm. Your line lengths show that. I'd like to pass along some advice about rhyme I've heard many times from Rattle Poetry editor Tim Green. Tim said not to use the easy rhyme, the firs…" -
30 TueFirst critique offered
on "Love" by @Marykathleen Mantle
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30 TueJoined Neopoet
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About Me
About me
On November 21, 2021, I sent the first poem I'd ever tried to write off to Copperfield Review Quarterly and it was published. I"d published prose before, stories for younger readers in the 9-12 age group, but that was my first poem. It created a thirst in me to do better, write better, publish more often, share what I was feeling and thinking and writing about. Since then, including haiku, I've published over 90 poems in various journals, my most recent titled "Misdeal" published a few days ago by New Verse News. My goals are to break into the print in places like Rattle, Ploughshares, and the like, or if I get enough confidence, to try to build a book submission.
Location: USA
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