Frankenberry's Attic

A Frankenblog

February 2024

  • New Year People (poem) – revised

    For Dverse Poets and a “Poets Leaping” prompt which you can find here. I wrote this back in January just after the new year and with the prompt being (well one of three possible ways to go) to write a poem using the word or concept of leaping I thought of this and the “leaping”… Continue reading

  • Standing At The Edge Of The World (the devil & me) – an Eldridge Tune 2 (song)

    A year or so ago an old WVU friend, Rob, posted on Facebook a little minute of him just pluckin’ away on guitar, a quick instrumental, and, on hearing it, I thought “Heck, I could, should, write a few words to this” So I did. Came out kinda nice. It was short, just that minute… Continue reading

  • Wings Of Spring (poem)

    Wings In Spring I thought I could child’s tales imagined me believe a sprite beyond just that field’s last next flower lazing petal’s slumber shade with winking wry smile waking they would wary me just a fragile touch of wing shared proof with butterflies in my hand ////////////////////////////////////////// This from the latest prompt at dVerse… Continue reading

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  • So Then Sunday: Going To The Schoolboard (song)

    Ok, a so then Sunday ’cause, well, it’s Sunday. Kinda look forward to these actually, a chance to revisit and remind myself that I do stuff and think things. Back to December of ’21 on this one. Something about the evils of some books and history and inspired by Ron DeSantis. To the Dixie Cups… Continue reading

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  • Tucker, Russia’s State Hero (song)

    Though I have plenty of other shit to concern myself with right now, I’m packing for a move, packing around cats without telling them what’s up just yet, I still can’t stop the need to editorialize in song. Seriously though, mums the word around Bella and Cricket right now alright? They’re very sensitive. For everyone’s… Continue reading

  • Shaggy Attic Craft (poem)

    So a new dVerse Poets prompt was this here in this link to the site and the latest challenge … to write something maybe imagined being written in stone, to write a poem, as Rita Dove was commissioned to do for the Folger in D.C. (again, check the link for explanation) for a walled entrance… Continue reading

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  • So Then Sunday: I Noticed

    So an early, 4:00 am early, So Then Sunday post here. For those that don’t know, a So Then Sunday post for me is like a Throwback Thursday, just not on a Thursday ’cause it’s, you know, a different day, not a Thursday, a Sunday. A made up excuse to just revisit stuff. //////////////////////////////////////// Stopped… Continue reading

  • Flat Earth (poem – song revisited)

    So, another poem prompt at dVerse Poets, this one from Merril, about boats and boating. “The prompt for today – write a poem about boats/ships, boating of any sort. You may write and ekphrastic poem using one of the given paintings for inspiration. There is no set form, write in free verse, write a haibun,… Continue reading

  • Red Carpets And Outfits Almost On A Dare

    Came across a few articles earlier today at the station in some downtime between the end of the recording of one show and the waiting to start the recording of another of some fashion “choices” or possibly “dares” from the Grammy’s, a collection, for the most part, of photo’s of really unfortunate Red Carpet outfits,… Continue reading

  • Moving

    I am stressed I am upended I am uncomfortable, my underwear doesn’t even feel quite right, I keep hitching it to one side or the other “fuck you other side, this one is mine”. Well, these particular ones are also going on 20 years old as my laundry has become a bit stacked with packing,… Continue reading