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A Little Tail From The Tree-Burbs (a true story)
Good buddy of mine, Rick, from my long time ago galaxy far far away WVU days, posted to his Facebook at the end of the week about some commotion in his backyard between an owl and a pretty ballsy squirrel squaring off in a tree. As per Rick “After several minutes, the owl leaped —… Continue reading
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The Girl With The Basket Of Moon (poem)
Earlier this week at dVerse Poets there was a poetics prompt from Sanaa that offered up a few paintings of John Atkinson Grimshaw to choose from for inspiration. I thought with this that I’d keep with a bit of a theme that came about with a couple of other responses of mine to recent poetics… Continue reading
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You Were The Best Of Company Miss Cricket (post)
It was just about this time 9 years ago that I moved from a little 2 bedroom 3rd floor place in Hyde Park, NY with really cool 2nd and 1st floor neighbors who said Hi, seemed to genuinely listen to “How are you?” responses and kept an eye for me and we bonded because I… Continue reading
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Hum With Me (poem)
A quadrille prompt this week came from De Jackson, asking that our latest dVerse Poets 44 worder include the word “Hum” ////////////////////////////////////////// Hum With Me He hummed a tune he didn’t know recognizable only for needs to hum beautiful discordant bright droning magical sharp pillowed angry measured even danceable… Continue reading
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The Sky Comes (prosery)
In a prosery prompt from Mish, a dVerse creation of 144 words of prose including a given line from a poem, she pays tribute to Gordon Downie, poet, songwriter, storyteller, activist and former lead singer for the Tragically Hip. From his poem “Starpainters” she has taken the line “The “Starpainters are taking over now” for… Continue reading
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TAKE 1 TABLET BY MOUTH INTO RIGHT EYE … (just a pretty dumb post)
So, boss production guy at the radio stations I work for has a daily routine, when emailing that our next day log checks are good, of including in the mail a number of funny memes and pictures. This one was in yesterday’s set. From “Customer Training: Counter Service” for Tough Guy Pharmacy School TAKE 1… Continue reading
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Intro’s To A New Co-Worker & Revisiting “I Didn’t Pee” (A Cujo The Cat Song)
Was looking at my blog stats this weekend and apparently, I’m really big (relatively so) in China right now. I say relatively so because my blog is not one that sees a ton of traffic, steady light traffic sure, some new traffic and regular checkin’ in with our old pal or nemesis Frankenberry traffic yes,… Continue reading
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Coloring the Pale (poem – quadrille)
Earlier this week protesting was in order (IS in order in this current orange cluster f climate of ours) with Punam at dVerse Poets and a very cool quadrille prompt inside a cool post, of yes, protest. So then to the latest dVerse Quadrille, a 44 worder (not counting the title) including here, the word… Continue reading
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Skywrite (pale blue dot)
From Laura, a prompt at dVerse Poets looking to follow the lead of a poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith (source here): with some meter some rhyme and some compound words. It goes like this: Poem’s title includes the stem word 15 lines 5 stanzas 3 lines per stanza rhyme scheme a,a,b meter 8/8/3 last line… Continue reading
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The Girl With The Umbrella (poem)
At the end of last month Melissa offered a prompt at dVerse poets with some paintings for inspiration as she has done before, including back in May with some paintings of Marc Chagall, to which I responded with a recent favorite poem of mine “The Girl at the Fair” for a Chagall painting entitled “La… Continue reading
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