Essay by R.M. Dolin, June 16, 2025 You ask me why I no longer blog about politics expecting an elevator answer. I’ve given it a lot of thought and my answer’s the same now as it was when I stopped. The easy out is that …
Read MoreWhy I Write
Poem by R.M. Dolin, June 13, 2025 Read Other Poems I will always be a romantic cherishing love over money. An idealist refusing to be engulfed or enslaved by darkness and hatred. The lost enigma God made of me, and for that I write to …
Read MoreThe Grand Illusion
Poem by R.M. Dolin, June 4, 2025 Read Other Poems Even if I could, even if I wanted to, I don’t have a way to explain any of this to anyone, including myself. You, more than anyone I know, deserve peace and happiness, the grandest …
Read MoreSudden Sunday
Chapter 1 of the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life,” June 2, 2025Read Companion Poem Darwin slides out the curb side of his Uber bracing against the deepening storm as he chastises himself for foolishly thinking time and distance would allow him to remember cold …
Read MoreCertain Beauty
Poem by R.M. Dolin, May 30, 2025 Read Other Poems There’s a certain beauty in sadness, lonely echoes of diminishing quietawakening the invisible soul we keep only for ourselves because it draws you inwardthe same subtle waywatching sunset’s orange glow pierce the smoke-filled skyof a …
Read MoreAmerican Haikus
A few years back, I fell in with a cohort of poets who challenged each other to write Haikus on our topic of the day. While others found this highly restrictive form of poetry helped open and expand their creativity, for me the required discipline …
Read MoreSix Word Short Stories
A collection of short stories by R.M. Dolin from 2024 It’s said novelist are people who can’t write short stories and short story writers are people who can’t write poems. Hemingway invented the six word short story genre and quite possibly created the perfect entry …
Read MoreStill My Foolish Heart
Poem by R.M. Dolin, May 16, 2025 Read Other Poems Everything I needed to know was foretold in the flatline fatigue of your smile. Still the same, a resolute heart is allowed to hear the background beat of deepening thunder masquerade as melodic melodies. Wind …
Read MoreSacred Soul
Poem by R.M. Dolin, May 5, 2025, Read Other Poems At least for now, my soul’s a sailor, a heart devoid of harbor wandering whimsically on the leeward side of solitude with no one other me to lace my mind with worry. There’s a suddenness …
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