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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.
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FAVORITE LINKS
The Passover Lamb
SAMPLE ARTICLES
Poetry
The Brigadier and the Merchant's Daughter
Short Story
The Iceboxing Match
Other Article
This 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
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
Paht-choon'-ta
1st place -- Masters Level
3rd place -- Editor's Choice
Topic -- Accent
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
If
8th place--Editor's Choice
Topic--Splash
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- 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
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