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

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My Bluebird's Home: Two Poems in One Day! How About That?
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...
Nov 23, 20222 min read


A Poem Welcoming Winter to North Arkansas in the Style of A. E. Housman
How about this? Enjoy the poem first. Then, read about the inspiration. Welcoming Winter in North Arkansas (In the style of A. E....
Nov 23, 20222 min read


A Saturday Morning Nature Poem
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...
Nov 5, 20222 min read


An Announcement, Two Pictures, and a New Poem
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...
Oct 24, 20222 min read


A Newly Revised Poem from 2005 Written While Sitting at Case Cemetery
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...
Sep 18, 20222 min read


Two Versions of One Psalm and Thank You, Again
Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, family, and folks, thank you so much for making my book Atheists and Empty Spaces, the #1 new...
Sep 3, 20223 min read


And So It Grew: A Poem in Response to a Request
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...
Aug 28, 20223 min read


The Good Mushroom: A Request
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...
Aug 17, 20222 min read


A New Mined Poetic Nugget and a Different Photographer
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,...
Aug 14, 20222 min read


New Poem About Inspiration Or the Lack of It
Luna and I went walking yesterday morning (Friday) at the Fulton County Fairgrounds/Shooting Range, and we walked down the new road...
Aug 6, 20222 min read


A Dragon Eats the Moon: A Picture and a Poem About It.
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...
Jul 19, 20222 min read


A Poem and Picture Reminding Us Not to Abandon Hope in This Awful Stretch of Torturous Heat
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...
Jul 17, 20221 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...
Jul 12, 20223 min read


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...
Jul 11, 20224 min read


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...
Jul 3, 20224 min read


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...
Jun 25, 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...
Jun 20, 20223 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...
Jun 10, 20221 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...
Jun 1, 20222 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...
May 29, 20223 min read


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