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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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The poetry of friendship

hcard, City Muse

We often struggle to write poetry. It is not easy, but it is also not the struggle that life can be. Trying to meld the two sometimes results in the purest and strongest and most profound poetry of all.

In 1964, I met my friend John Wesche in Watson Dormitory at Syracuse University. He was the first person I met as a freshman and he has been my friend since that day – not simply “friend” in the sense of someone you have known for a long time, but “friend” in the sense of someone you can go without seeing or talking to for a while, but pick up the conversation right where it left off when you meet again. Close friend. Enduring friend. Friend you know a lot about. Friend you know little about. Friend who has made me cry – twice...

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TAGS: Wesche,Watson Dormitory,Syracuse University,Chiefs

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