City Muse

City Muse

Herm Card is the City Eagle's roving street reporter and photographer as well as the Eagle's Poetry Editor.

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He is an English teacher, poet, educational consultant, and motivational speaker. He has been a college baseball player and coach, military officer, tournament squash player and NCAA baseball umpire. He is also a Museum Educator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and co-editor of the academic journal, "The English Record."

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Submit your poetry to Herm at eaglepoetry@aol.com

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May

Poem in Your Pocket Day – 2009

hcard, City Muse

I realize that picking a favorite poem can border on the impossible. But, it allows us to search through our memories as we might search through the boxes we discover as we clean the attic – letting each old letter or photo or dried flower reenter our consciousness and make us happy or sad, or perhaps young again or strong. These memories, these poems, remind us who we are, where we’ve been and maybe provide a glimpse of where we’re going.

Or, maybe a poem is just a poem, and maybe that’s enough.

Thanks to everyone who has shared the poems in their pockets.

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“My grandfather was a stern, pretty forbidding man – he’s German, it comes with the territory - although a really great grandfather...

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