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Michael Thomas Thoughts on Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, and Ramblings-It's All Here in...
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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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Sep 19, 20213 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...
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Sep 16, 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...
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Sep 11, 20214 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...
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Sep 6, 20211 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...
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Sep 3, 20214 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...
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Aug 29, 20212 min read
The Third Cardinal Is Complete!
Anyway, I have finished the poem for the first request that I have received from a reader. I generally do not think it is fair to explain...
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Aug 28, 20212 min read
Wetting One's Beak
Anyway, Kellie's sister Diane Keith responded to my request for poems about birds and said that she would like one about a cardinal. Most...
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Aug 25, 20213 min read
“Woke up, Fell Out of Bed, Dragged a Comb Across My Head”
Some of you may have recognized the title as the words from the middle section of The Beatles’ song A Day in the Life from the Sgt....
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Aug 21, 20214 min read
Sunshine on My Shoulder Makes Me Wax Poetic
Anyway, Kellie and I were walking the other morning as the sun came up. It was one of those gorgeous sunrises that makes a person feel...
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Aug 16, 20214 min read
A Rose by Any Other Name Is a Mule Named Mike
Anyway, a family story goes that a mule by the name of “Mike” kicked me in the head when I was a child, and that mulish attack upon my...
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Aug 13, 20212 min read
Getting My Feelings Out There
Anyway, I have been reading a lot of poetry on websites lately. Overall, the quality is as lacking as one might suspect from social sites...
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Aug 12, 20213 min read
POET BITES DOG
Actually, I don’t know if a poet ever bit a dog, and that was not really the comment that inspired me to the current consideration. The...
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Aug 10, 20212 min read
The Last of a Few More Words: The Joy of Shadows
On the back cover of The Joy of Shadows, I wrote that the book is a continuation of The Mercy Killing. That claim is not very fair to...
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