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Michael Thomas Thoughts on Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, and Ramblings-It's All Here in...

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Shadows and Early Iris Blooms: Getting Ahead of the Past Year
Not an Early Iris Bloom Well, my friends, I didn't have a picture of my shadow or an early iris bloom, so an iris bloom from March 31 of...
Feb 93 min read
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Reviewing, Revising, and Crows? Oh, My!
The Almost Forgotten Snow on the Pond and Fishing Dock As the snow is completely gone and almost completely forgotten on this 70 degree,...
Feb 23 min read
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Special Guest Poet Marty Gerlach, Another Morning Kiss, and a New Three Crow Brothers
Stars That Fell from the Sky Not only is my Aunt Marty Gerlach the guest poet this week, but she also provided the photo above of the...
Jan 263 min read
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The Second Revised Poem: Wow! This Is Hard!
Willow Tree in the Morning Light Holy Moley! I am only working on revising the second poem of the Poem-a-Week challenge, and my mind is...
Jan 202 min read
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Ah! Weeks and Months of Wonderful Revision
The Park Stream in the Snow As you can probably guess, with revisions and editing of the Poem-a-Week poems going on, I will not be...
Jan 123 min read
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A Murder of Three Crow Brothers Poems: Alas! The End of Poem-a-Week
As I indicated last week, I have been walking a bunch over the last few weeks, mostly just me and Luna, and I "entertain" myself when...
Jan 54 min read
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Fog and Crows: Two Poems for You
Christmas Day Sedge and Fog Regular readers of this blog have seen this scene a dozen times. Usually, the picture includes a sunset or a...
Dec 29, 20243 min read
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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...
Dec 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Dec 18, 20243 min read
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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...
Dec 10, 20244 min read
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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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