Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry 5/6

Jul 12, 20223 min read

A Song for Rain and Pictures from Rain Forests of the World

Anyway, on our recent vacation to San Francisco, Kellie, Sarah, and I visited the California Academy of Sciences. A primary exhibit at...

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Now, I Can Tell You Where I Have Been: San Francisco

Jul 11, 20224 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Now, I Can Tell You Where I Have Been: San Francisco

Eight days ago, I wrote that I would tell you why I was not going to be writing anything for at least a week. The reason is that I have...

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New Pictures: Don't Have Any New Writings

Jul 3, 20224 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

New Pictures: Don't Have Any New Writings

Anyway, it has been a very busy week. Summer term I at ASUMH ended on Wednesday, so I had a deluge of grading Monday, Tuesday, and the...

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A Finished Poem (They are never really finished.) from the Draft that You Saw Last Week

Jun 25, 20223 min read

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A Finished Poem (They are never really finished.) from the Draft that You Saw Last Week

Before I present the poem to you, I wanted to tell you about some interesting stuff that I ran across as part of my research to finish...

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A Blah, Blah Blog with a Very Scary Face

Jun 20, 20223 min read

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A Blah, Blah Blog with a Very Scary Face

Anyway, I was walking my dog Luna out at the Fulton County fairgrounds the other day when I looked up in the sky, and this evil-looking...

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A Poem from about Fifteen Years Ago on Our Fifteenth Anniversary

Jun 10, 20221 min read

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A Poem from about Fifteen Years Ago on Our Fifteenth Anniversary

Poem for Kellie I have mortgaged my life, and I’ve wasted my time. I’ve made many decisions with no reason nor rhyme. I have valued my...

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Kellie's Late Evening Pictures, Some Pictures of Flowers, and a Cool Poem about Spiders and Roses

Jun 1, 20222 min read

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Kellie's Late Evening Pictures, Some Pictures of Flowers, and a Cool Poem about Spiders and Roses

Anyway, Kellie and I have been wandering around in the yard or sitting on our patio quite a bit here lately about dusk, and the other...

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The Suffering Artist and a Picture of a Daisy

May 29, 20223 min read

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The Suffering Artist and a Picture of a Daisy

Anyway, Kellie took this picture of a rain-mottled daisy while we walked in the city park the other day. I do not know what it has to do...

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Okay! Back to Literary Stuff! And...uh...Some Pictures of Flowers

May 21, 20224 min read

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Okay! Back to Literary Stuff! And...uh...Some Pictures of Flowers

Anyway, the weed flowers or the ‘accidentals” are nearly gone from the yard here on the day that marks the beginning of my fifty-sixth...

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More May Flowers and Another Old Poem Blooming Again

May 19, 20222 min read

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More May Flowers and Another Old Poem Blooming Again

Anyway, we start off today with a close up of some flowers on a bush that I have no memories of what it was called, but it was purchased...

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Fire the Blogger! Hire the Photographer!

May 9, 20223 min read

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Fire the Blogger! Hire the Photographer!

I reckon I should probably be fired. I have not posted a blog since April 10, nearly a month ago. It was right after Kellie and I...

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Fire, Fire Way Too Close But the Flower Pictures Are Beautiful

Apr 10, 20223 min read

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Fire, Fire Way Too Close But the Flower Pictures Are Beautiful

I have a whole bunch of cool pictures to post taken during the hiking excursion that Kellie and I took today, but first, I must tell you...

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Apr 3, 20223 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Musing about Flowers and Such

Anyway, if you've been keeping up with me on Facebook, you know that I have shared the pictures that Kellie posted on her feed and tagged...

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Feb 25, 20223 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Something Cold, Something New

Today, Luna and I returned to our daily walking. The picture accompanying this blog shows what about half of the 2/3 mile path around the...

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Feb 20, 20222 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

A New (Revised) Poem for a Change

Anyway, Dewey Lynne is having a rest. I do not even have a bit of a note scratched for the next Dewey Lynne Bugler story. I am not sure...

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Nov 24, 20213 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

An Attempt at Something Different

Picture Caption: I was walking the other night after 6 o'clock, so it was dark, but away from all of the lights of town and with the full...

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Nov 7, 20213 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Buying a New Friend?

I finally received my token of friendship from The American Poetry Review this week. I seem to remember when being friends did not...

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Oct 17, 20213 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

Not Inspired, I Guess

Anyway, I have been doing my daily walking, and I have been waiting for Nature to start showing out, for the colors to change, and to be...

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Oct 10, 20213 min read

Poetry and Thoughts on Poetry

An Older, Wiser Man with Rhythm

Anyway, people ask me sometimes, “What do you mean that your older poems do not have a good rhythm? And is it really that important in...

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Oct 5, 20214 min read

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Sorting Through the Trash

Anyway, an Irish poet by the name of William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called The Circus Animals’ Desertion. Many critics and scholars...

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