October 2026
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The Moon Was in the News Again – Suspect #1 (poem)
There was a prompt at dVerse earlier in the week from Sanaa, a one for the spooky season, to write a poem based on one of a selection of thirteen “haunted” songs, Poetics: Thirteen songs – Thirteen haunting. Kudos to Sanaa for the great selection of tunes, including one from Echo & the Bunnymen (a… Continue reading
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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
