Double Dutch

Posted on by Jamie Dedes

playing with god

double dutch

jump rope

swinging round

and round

the confusion of

ropes going up

and down and

both ropes circling in

contrary directions

beckoning

us to leap into the

flow

©2015, poem, Terri Stewart, All rights reserved; photograph, John St. John,  CC (BY-NC-ND)

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Jamie Dedes is a Lebanese-American poet and free-lance writer. She is the founder and curator of The Poet by Day, info hub for poets and writers, and the founder of The Bardo Group, publishers of The BeZine, of which she was the founding editor and currently a co-manager editor with Michael Dickel. Ms. Dedes is the Poet Laureate of Womawords Press 2020 and U.S associate to that press as well. Her debut collection, "The Damask Garden," is due out fall 2020 from Blue Dolphin Press.

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