RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Monday, July 31, 2017

WHERE THERE IS DOUBT, FAITH

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Had any self-respecting man of the cloth  actually witnessed this—ecstatic and  innocent-as- alabaster young friar out there...
Friday, July 28, 2017

CURMUDGEON

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Older Americans are too proud of their grandkids— they're always taking up way too much room on the sidewalk, liking The Beatl...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

DHARMA

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One day in late July, when the mirage of five o'clock in the afternoon still looms a huge droning honey bee might be the only on...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

SUPERINTENDED

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The message is actually exactly the same; it's just that— courage takes out all these minuscule personal ads, whereas fea...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

HALCYON ABSTRACT

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Amid the rippling galaxies of white clover, spiraling out on a kelly green lawn where here and there, a few robins go gliding, shea...
Monday, July 24, 2017

MIRAGES

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You've probably noticed it by now—that the best sensations are never found in the place where they come from, that the tantalizi...
Friday, July 21, 2017

THE CATCH

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The beginner's mind seems like such a hopelessly difficult thing to come by after Todd, the candid landscape architect, stands an...
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Dan Smart is a writer, musician, and animal caretaker from Chicago, IL. His poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Ocotillo Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Jabberwock Review, Little Stone Journal, Red Fez, and The Legendary, among others; and his first full-length collection "The Flowers of Nonchalance" was released in 2023. In addition, he has sustained the daily poetry blog "Rhythm Is The Instrument" since 2013, which presently contains nearly 4,000 original poems.
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