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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Michael Thomas Thoughts on Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, and Ramblings-It's All Here in...
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Jun 20, 20223 min read
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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Jun 10, 20221 min read
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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Jun 1, 20222 min read
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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May 29, 20223 min read
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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May 21, 20224 min read
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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May 19, 20222 min read
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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May 9, 20223 min read
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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Apr 10, 20223 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Oct 3, 20213 min read
Blog Fatigue and The Sermon of the Hound
Anyway, who would have thought that writing three or four hundred words a week in a blog would be so difficult after only a few weeks?...
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Sep 27, 20213 min read
There’s a Light, Over at the Poemshape Blog
Anyway, I found a new poetry bestie who does not even know that he is my go-to read when I feel like I need support for my particular...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
Kellie Takes the Blog for a Day
Anyway (isn’t that how you begin, Michael?), I have taken over this week’s blog to explain a little about Michael’s upcoming book of...
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