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Two for You: Poems-a-Week

Red Leaves on a Gum Tree My, oh, my! How great it is to be off work and to have time to think and write with about being burdened with...

No Poem-a-Week? No Problem! Here Is Three in a Week and a Half!

4 days ago3 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

No Poem-a-Week? No Problem! Here Is Three in a Week and a Half!

Frosty Swirling Grass I was reminded by a comment that someone made on a post in Facebook that other day that I would like to remind my...

On the Blog Again: Some Familiar Places and Two New Poems

Dec 104 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

On the Blog Again: Some Familiar Places and Two New Poems

A Rock Path on the White River Bluff Trail Kellie and I went on a hiking excursion last Saturday. I believe, though I may be wrong, it...

Oct 204 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Missed a Week So: Two Poems-This-Week!

Yes, my fifteen or so loyal readers, I missed any sort of blogging action last week. Kellie and I went to the annual Arkansas Community...

Poem-a-Week: Yep, We're Stuck on the Crow Brothers

Oct 62 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Poem-a-Week: Yep, We're Stuck on the Crow Brothers

I have had a new phone for about three or four months now. I don't like it. So far, I have not been able to figure out how to take...

Sep 292 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Another Crow Brothers for Poem-a-Week

I took this picture early in the week last week before Hurricane Helene came along. It wasn't sunset, and it wasn't even all that stormy,...

Revisiting the Three Crow Brothers for Poem-a-Week and a Picture of a Big Spider

Sep 222 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Revisiting the Three Crow Brothers for Poem-a-Week and a Picture of a Big Spider

Kellie got this great picture of a giant tarantula that crawled out of the woods and into our yard. It was probably about eight inches...

Remembering a Friend: A Really Old Poem and Some Well-made Knives

Sep 157 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Remembering a Friend: A Really Old Poem and Some Well-made Knives

Though we will never know the exact day, thirty-five years ago somewhere around this time of the year, my good friend Glenn Aron Hicklin...

Poem-a-Week: One that Came Naturally and One That Keeps Fighting Me

Sep 83 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Poem-a-Week: One that Came Naturally and One That Keeps Fighting Me

This morning, Kellie was not able to walk with Luna and me. What a shame! It was a gorgeous 54 degree morning. The fog did rise off the...

Poem-a-Week: A Fragment of a Sunrise and Uncle Boog Is Now in Global Distribution

Sep 22 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Poem-a-Week: A Fragment of a Sunrise and Uncle Boog Is Now in Global Distribution

This week's picture truly goes well with this week's poem. That morning's sunrise was all over the place with its colors, and the poem is...

Uncle Boog and the Dogfight Is Ready to Go! And I Wrote a Poem This Week Too.

Aug 252 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Uncle Boog and the Dogfight Is Ready to Go! And I Wrote a Poem This Week Too.

Well, the final edit is in, and it has cleared. Uncle Boog and the Dogfight is available now at Lulu.com . Here is the page site:...

Poem-a-Week: A Twofer of Poems and the Horizon Before Sunrise

Aug 182 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Poem-a-Week: A Twofer of Poems and the Horizon Before Sunrise

If you live here in Arkansas as I do, you know this last week has had a couple of days that have been fricking hot. Twice, Kellie and I...

Aug 112 min read

Poem-a-Week: I Have Four, but How Many Do You Need? Two? Yes, Two!

That's right! I have four poems that I could share today. For the past week, I have been leaving the editing of Uncle Boog and the...

Aug 42 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Poem-a-Week Challenge: One of Three

Oh, boy! I wrote three poems this week, but I am only going to share one with you because this is the last Sunday before the Sunday that...

Jul 282 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Poem-a-Week: I Think I Am Me

Quite frankly, a sunrise as beautiful as the one above that was taken last Friday morning can cause a person to have an existential...

Jul 275 min read

Travelogue

Travelogue: Niagara Trip: The Last Day!

Honestly, I don't think that either Kellie or I anticipated that our road trip was at an end that day when we woke up in Lexington,...

Jul 255 min read

Travelogue

Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day Five, Serpent Mound, Blue Lick Battlefield, Daniel Boone's Cabin, a Whisky Tasting Tour, and Dinner at Charlie Brown's

As you can tell from the title, the fifth day of our Niagara Trip was the busiest day of the trip. It was also one of the most...

Poem-a-Week Times Two: You Didn't Think I Had Forgotten Did You?

Jul 222 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Poem-a-Week Times Two: You Didn't Think I Had Forgotten Did You?

I took this picture the other day on one of my rose blossoms. My red rose bush is going crazy. It has over a dozen blooms on it right...

Jul 195 min read

Travelogue

Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day Four, Rainy Day in Toronto--Nope!

I put " Accentuate the Positive Frog" at the top of this blog because I came off sounding fairly negative yesterday in the blog. I know...

Jul 187 min read

Travelogue

Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day Three at the Falls

As you can see in the picture, we are at Niagara Falls, this was the best picture that I had of all three of the falls, the American...

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