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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...
May 21, 20224 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...
May 19, 20222 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...
May 9, 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...
Apr 10, 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...
Apr 3, 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...
Feb 25, 20223 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...
Feb 20, 20222 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...
Nov 24, 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...
Nov 7, 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...
Oct 17, 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...
Oct 10, 20213 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...
Oct 5, 20214 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?...
Oct 3, 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...
Sep 27, 20213 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...
Sep 23, 20212 min read


Two Miles Down the Road
Anyway, Kellie and I went to Mountain View on Saturday to our grandson Colt’s football game. After the football game, we went with my son...
Sep 19, 20213 min read


Sometimes Even the Sky Gets Angry
Anyway, I was walking the other evening. I tend to do that a lot. Kellie wasn’t walking with me on this rare occasion, and the sky looked...
Sep 16, 20213 min read


Sshhh…Don’t Tell Anyone! A Poem from the New Book Atheists and Empty Spaces
Anyway, you will probably notice right away in looking at the title of the poem that it is called Old #5. That is because this is the...
Sep 11, 20214 min read


A Golden Oldie from 39 Years Ago
Anyway, Kellie and I were walking in the city park at Salem early Saturday morning, and we both took a picture trying to capture the...
Sep 6, 20211 min read


To Interpret or Not Interpret? That Is Not the Right Question
Anyway, if I am going to blog about poetry, sometimes the discussion has to get a little bit technical. My hope is that I can find a...
Sep 3, 20214 min read


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