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REID BAER
Fully Present Pioneers

The wagon party halted -
stranded at the water's edge
as the first spring's icy flow
rose high and fast against the muddy banks.

Many murmured for the discouraging delay.
Others circled together,
prepared camp and prayed.

During the long night
temperatures dropped
and winds blew bitter cold
through the desolate land.

Many murmured with a bone-chilling shiver.
Others arose early, hitched oxen
and crossed the now frozen river.

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JOHN HORVATH Jr
Our Heroes

	These villages have many names;
	These families have many names;
	These churches, too, have names.
Church walls have names
And their eyes mirror
Lions caged in winter.
	Someday to Paradise
	We shall follow them
	But not this day.
We have a mission for our dead
Stone heroes:  accept our plea
When we call upon their memory.
	Blood under flesh and
	Bone beneath blood,
	Their souls surrender.
An old veteran's last rites
Adds one to their number.
We are as one at such times.
	We shroud their coffins
	With flags to remember
	The art of sacrifice.
For enemies
Such weapons
Lay in wait
	Where we leave them
	In soil we surrender.
	The dead guard our retreat.
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RE Fully Present Pioneers copyright REID BAER
RE Our Heroes copyright JOHN HORVATH Jr


MICHAEL LADANYIs JB appeared in the 2002.10 issue of PoetryRepairShop. And, we are proud to have had him as a regular contributor.

LIDANYI has had two chapbooks published : Spelling Crows of Winter, ISBN 1-58998-229-0, released by Pudding House Publications, http://www.puddinghouse.com/ Sept. 2003, and Palm Shadows, released by Purple Rose Publications, http://www.purple-rose.com/ June 2002.

MICHAEL LADANYI now announces his first full length poetry collection, Humming Riddles in Naked Seasons, (72 poems, price $16, ISBN# pending) is due out in the late spring/early summer from The Sun Rising Poetry Press, http://www.sun-rising-poetry.com/ a division of Sun Books, and is now available for pre-order through the publishers: Donette at: donette@sunbooks.com or Dale at: djungk@stjoelive.com

Humming Riddles in Naked Seasons will be available upon publication through online and brick and mortar retail stores, including Amazon.com and others.

Please take a moment to visit my site at: http://www.geocities.com/michael_paul_ladanyi/index.html or the publishers site at: http://www.sun-rising-poetry.com/ to learn more.

Humming Riddles in Naked Seasons, Michael Paul Ladanyi's first full length collection of poetry, is available now through The Sun Rising Poetry Press: http://www.sun-rising-poetry.com/

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Lidanyi is also a Poetry reviewer with Write-Away-Poetry http://www.write-away-poetry.org/

His latest chapbook, Spelling Crows of Winter
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