This should have been yesterday's poem, but I was too busy being busy. From "Thirty Years of Cardinals Calling" katherinegotthardt.com/thirty-years...

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Stay courageous, my friends. 💜 The unfriendly dragon will meet its demise. katherinegotthardt.com/late-april

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Here's another older piece from my collection entitled Late April. It's interesting to see how my work has changed over the years. Yet, Facebook is still toxic! 😄 katherinegotthardt.com/late-april/

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One of the many poems I forgot I had written during previous National Poetry Months. 🍷Pour a glass and enjoy day 11 of this year's celebration. 👉https://katherinegotthardt.com/late-apri

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An older poem from my collection, Weaker Than Water. Enjoy #NationalPoetryMonth day 10. katherinegotthardt.com/weaker-than-...

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Day 9 of #NationalPoetryMonth: We CAN restore hope and bring back beauty if we start by focusing on what we want as opposed to what we don't. 👉ChangedWorldPoetry.com

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Day 8 #NationalPoetryMonth: I'd label this piece an extended metaphor. If you are part of the "we" in this poem, you are part of the problem. ChangedWorldPoetry.com

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I forgot to post yesterday, but here we are, in spite of it all. Day 7 of #NationalPoetryMonth: I offer you a piece from my collection entitled "Crisis of Faith." Be the artist you were meant to be. 👉 katherinegotthardt.com/crisis-of-fa...

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One of my favorite and more personal pieces from "Thirty Years of Cardinals Calling." I hope you enjoy day 6 of #NationalPoetryMonth. katherinegotthardt.com/thirty-years...

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#NationalPoetryMonth day 5 - this is an ekphrastic based on a pastel that was on display at Louisa Arts Center. I drafted the piece during a Write In Louisa gathering. It's now in the group's "Right at Home" anthology. 👉https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNJBH2HB

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#NationalPoetryMonth day 4: We all seek safety and protection. 👉ChangedWorldPoetry.com

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Today's offering for #NationalPoetryMonth - a chance to focus on the beauty we still have left in this world. "Mindsetting" was a Virginia Writers Club, Inc. statewide poetry contest award winner. virginiawritersclub.org

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Day 2 of #NationalPoetryMonth. This one is for everyone who has ever been marginalized. Don't. Give. Up. ChangedWorldPoetry.com

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A short poem about being remembered. And probably a few other things. 👉https://katherinegotthardt.com/2026/03/18/doily/

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Lifecycle by Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt Lifecycle I keep relearning what it means to be human, collapse the myth we are always to live as happy or sad or grief ridden, that it’s okay to break camp, extinguish the embers from last night’s…

Sometimes I go back and read my older work and think, I could make this poem better. I have to remind myself that at the time, it was "done for now."
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