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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...
Oct 20, 20244 min read
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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...
Oct 6, 20242 min read
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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,...
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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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...
Sep 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Sep 15, 20247 min read
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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...
Sep 8, 20243 min read
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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...
Sep 2, 20242 min read
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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:...
Aug 25, 20242 min read
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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 18, 20242 min read
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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...
Aug 4, 20242 min read
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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 28, 20242 min read
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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 22, 20242 min read
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A Hot Sun and a Cold Poem-of-the-Week
Kellie, Luna, and I go for a walk/hike every morning. We usually are out and about between 5:30 and 6:15 AM. One morning this week, we...
Jul 6, 20241 min read
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Bluebird Pugilist: The Poem-a-Week Challenge and Seeking Some Help
Bluebird Pugilist BAM! BAM! BAM! The bluebird rams the window with his chest. Tick! Tick! He strikes the glass pane with his beak. He...
Jun 30, 20242 min read
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Two Poems: Neither One for Our Anniversary
For our anniversary this year (17), Kellie and I took a quick trip to St. Louis and spent a couple of days doing our favorite things:...
Jun 9, 20243 min read
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A Butterfly Poem and One More Dose of Cherries (They Are All Gone!)
I took the picture of this butterfly on my rosebush beside the house. Shortly after, I came in to write a poem about it because I thought...
Jun 2, 20243 min read
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Cherries, Finches, and Pies: Poem-a-Week
How about we start off with the poem? That seems like a good idea. ENJOY! A Disagreement with a Finch About the Size of a Pie I have a...
May 26, 20244 min read
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Poem-a-Week, Pink Roses, and Butterflies
The gem above was found on a wild rose bush. Most wild rose blooms are white or some shade of red, but this one had some gorgeous pink...
May 19, 20243 min read
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A Poem for Poem-a-Week and a Yellow Indian-pink
According to Pl@ntNet Identify, the little beauty above is called an Indian-pink even though there is no pink on it. Well, maybe a slight...
May 12, 20241 min read
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Love Song #1 and a New Flower (to me)
Well, I learned something new with this picture of this flower. I have never heard of a Yellow Salsify, but according to Pl@ntNet...
May 5, 20242 min read
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