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The Passover Lamb
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PoetryThe Brigadier and the Merchant's DaughterShort StoryYou Do the Crime--You'll Do the TimeOther ArticleThis is the Father
MY NEWS
Now available through smashwords.com, my first eBook containing nine of my favorite farm poems, titled
Light Farm Works
My second eBook titled
Antler Tales and Foreign Trails available at smashwords.com, contains seven poems that have either a foreign setting or about those who uses antlers as part of their home decorating.
Galactic Light Verse is space-themed, light verse, and my third collection.
Turtle Stew,
Peking Duck,
Barred Plymouth Rock Band, and
Catfish on a Hot Tin Roof (ballad of a bottom-feeder) -- Illustrated eBooks available at smashwords.com.
Click an image below for a link to the site.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Recent FaithWriters Writing Challenges
To be published in future FaithWriters' Anthologies or in FaithWriters Magazine
The Ode and the Epitaph ---The Paragon-Pariah of Fallow Field Farm
1st place--Master's Level
1st place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Pride
Adieu Dodo
1st place--Master's Level
1st place--Editor's Choice
Topic: Greed
Ziggurat
1st place--Master's Level
1st place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Measure
You do the Crime--You'll do the Time
1st place--Master's Level
1st place--Editor's choice
Topic--Time
Junk Food National Historic Site
1st place--Master's Level
1st place--Editor's choice
Topic--Junk Food
He's What?
2nd place--Masters Level
2nd place--Editor's Choice
Topic: Mix
Aubade for Job
2nd place--Masters Level
2nd place--Editor's Choice
Topic: Bouncebackability
Paht-choon'-ta
1st place -- Masters Level
3rd place -- Editor's Choice
Topic -- Accent
A Wretch Like Me
3rd place -- Master's Level
3rd place -- Editor's Choice
Topic: Road Trip
Go for the Great
3rd place -- Masters Level
3rd place -- Editor's Choice
Topic--Omnishambles
Quel Desastre
Highly Commended --Master's Level
4th Place -- Editor's Choice
Topic: Vacation Souvenirs
Leviticus
Highly Commended--Masters Level
4th place -- Editor's Choice
Topic--Repeat
Portent
Highly Commended--Masters Level
5th place -- Editor's Choice
Topic--Achoo
Calypso Cultural Park
Highly Commended--Masters Level
6th place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Park
Vortex
Highly Commended -- Master's Level
7th place -- Editor's Choice
Topic: Overseas Vacation
Elizabeth Has Left the Building
Highly Commended--Masters Level
7th place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Dead End
The Proxy
7th place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Grate
Something Blue
7th place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Curiosity Killed the Cat
Steampunked
8th Place -- Editor's Choice
Topic: Weekend Away
Hero Dreams
8th Place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Day's End
Pax et Benedictio
8th Place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Hum
If
8th place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Splash
Roll Over Beethoven
10th Place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Husband and Wife
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- Locusts and Wild Honey
--Sept 1, 2014 --The Sentimental
Prelude
--Fall 2012 -- Journey Magazine -- a publication of Emmaus Bible College
The Passover Lamb
--Spring 2010 -- Journey Magazine -- a publication of Emmaus Bible College
--March 31, 2010 -- The Adair Country Free Press - Greenfield, Iowa
Pride and Prejudice
-May 15, 2009 -- The Dalhart Texan -- a newspaper that has served the Texas Panhandle for over a century
-Topic -- Cousins
The Christmas Goose
-December 2008 edition of ithirstnw --a Christian ezine with a small town attitude
-Topic--Christmas baking / cooking
The Idiot's Guide
-FaithWriters 500 Front Page Showcase article October 8, 2007
-FaithWriters Magazine--A Merry Heart page -- May/June 2008
-Topic -- Confused
Wellington, The Talk of Baxter County
-February 2008 edition of The Copper Penny Press
-Topic -- Homespun Wisdom: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
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- Beth's poetry blog Laughing at the Days
CONTACT ME
Before Beth LaBuff and her husband, Tilman, moved to the high desert of Arizona, she lived most of her life surrounded by the corn fields of Adair County, Iowa. She enjoys writing narrative light verse, with many of her poems having a rural flavor and most giving a nod to a Bible phrase or event.
