We Once Felt a Fire Will we kindle muted passion In a world of dampened sadness Or flicker in a tired fashion Into apathetic madness? Or...

Poor, Poor Hawk Poor, poor hawk, vicious hawk, Tan terror of the sky, You look a sleeping, peaceful dove In brown leaves where you lie....

Singing a Note of Warning I see you perched and nestled tight Above the wispy powdered snow In one small beam of waning light Hid in a...

Fly Away, Cardinal Brothers How goes it there, my crimson friends? Your crests are spiked; your feathers fluffed. You’ve held that pose...

Something to Write About We went out walking yesterday, My dog and I alone. My wife declined to go with us For reasons of her own. I...

When this becomes regular to all of us, I will no longer need to write it, but my comments about the snippets of verse and the pictures...

As I have begun doing recently, I will share the poems and pictures and then provide an explanation at the end. See you at the bottom of...

Yes, the headline is correct. In the PDF above are all the NEW poems that I have posted in this blog. It does not include any of the...

As I did this morning, I will present the poem and then present my ramblings about the poem. Enjoy! My Bluebird’s Home I. In your azure...

How about this? Enjoy the poem first. Then, read about the inspiration. Welcoming Winter in North Arkansas (In the style of A. E....

Well, I haven't been writing much lately. You know my excuses, but I will state the over-arching issue: I have a job. That job involves...

On Wednesday, November 2 from 12:00-1:00, Annie England Noblin and I will be signing copies of our books Christmas in Blue Dog Valley and...

Kellie took this picture of a tiny purple flower on our daily walk a few days, maybe even a week or two, ago. The flower is an exquisite...

Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, family, and folks, thank you so much for making my book Atheists and Empty Spaces, the #1 new...

Today's poem is written as a request for Missy Dayberry-Avey of St. James, Arkansas. (You do still live there, right?) Back in the early...

You folks remember a while back--a long time back--I said that I would do requests for poems. I have had two requests. Kellie's sister...

This morning's picture was taken by my son Jesse. He had some Naked Ladies, AKA Surprise Lilies (Lycoris squamigera), pop up in his yard,...

Luna and I went walking yesterday morning (Friday) at the Fulton County Fairgrounds/Shooting Range, and we walked down the new road...

Well, I hate to post another blog so close to the last one when I still have so many of my friends and acquaintances reading and...

Anyway, since I do seem to be stuck in a phase of writing short poems about Nature and its various scenes and faces, I offer today a poem...