{"product_id":"lothlorien-poetry-journal-volume-22","title":"Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 22","description":"\u003cp\u003eLothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 22 Ð Go Where the Sidewalk Ends features the best poetry and fiction from 78 internationally renowned poets and authors who bring their own original take on twenty-first century life and society. Some of us stay on the sidewalk of life but these poets and authors delve deeper and fearlessly Go Where the Sidewalk Ends.  Join them and discover poems and stories of fantasy and folklore, dystopia, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the Sidewalk Ends\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eby Shel Silverstein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a place where the sidewalk ends\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd before the street begins,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd there the grass grows soft and white,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd there the sun burns crimson bright,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd there the moon-bird rests from his flight\u003cbr\u003e\nTo cool in the peppermint wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLet us leave this place where the smoke blows black\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd the dark street winds and bends.\u003cbr\u003e\nPast the pits where the asphalt flowers grow\u003cbr\u003e\nWe shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd watch where the chalk-white arrows go\u003cbr\u003e\nTo the place where the sidewalk ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,\u003cbr\u003e\nFor the children, they mark, and the children, they know\u003cbr\u003e\nThe place where the sidewalk ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's a Hole in My Sidewalk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÒ1) I walk down the street.\u003cbr\u003e\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk\u003cbr\u003e\nI fall in.\u003cbr\u003e\nI am lost...\u003cbr\u003e\nI am hopeless.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt isn't my fault.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt takes forever to find a way out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2) I walk down the same street.\u003cbr\u003e\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.\u003cbr\u003e\nI pretend I don't see it.\u003cbr\u003e\nI fall in again.\u003cbr\u003e\nI can't believe I'm in the same place.\u003cbr\u003e\nBut it isn't my fault.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt still takes a long time to get out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e3) I walk down the same street.\u003cbr\u003e\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.\u003cbr\u003e\nI see it is there.\u003cbr\u003e\nI still fall in...it's a habit\u003cbr\u003e\nMy eyes are open; I know where I am;\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is my fault.\u003cbr\u003e\nI get out immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e4) I walk down the same street.\u003cbr\u003e\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.\u003cbr\u003e\nI walk around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e5) I walk down another street.Ó\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e_ Portia Nelson, There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse\/rhyming\/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt https:\/\/lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com\/\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44231729610913,"sku":"9781447717072","price":43.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/7r7dy2-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713713511","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/lothlorien-poetry-journal-volume-22","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}