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

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Another Crow Brothers for Poem-a-Week
I took this picture early in the week last week before Hurricane Helene came along. It wasn't sunset, and it wasn't even all that stormy,...
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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Revisiting the Three Crow Brothers for Poem-a-Week and a Picture of a Big Spider
Kellie got this great picture of a giant tarantula that crawled out of the woods and into our yard. It was probably about eight inches...
Sep 22, 20242 min read
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Remembering a Friend: A Really Old Poem and Some Well-made Knives
Though we will never know the exact day, thirty-five years ago somewhere around this time of the year, my good friend Glenn Aron Hicklin...
Sep 15, 20247 min read
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Poem-a-Week: One that Came Naturally and One That Keeps Fighting Me
This morning, Kellie was not able to walk with Luna and me. What a shame! It was a gorgeous 54 degree morning. The fog did rise off the...
Sep 8, 20243 min read
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Poem-a-Week: A Fragment of a Sunrise and Uncle Boog Is Now in Global Distribution
This week's picture truly goes well with this week's poem. That morning's sunrise was all over the place with its colors, and the poem is...
Sep 2, 20242 min read
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Uncle Boog and the Dogfight Is Ready to Go! And I Wrote a Poem This Week Too.
Well, the final edit is in, and it has cleared. Uncle Boog and the Dogfight is available now at Lulu.com . Here is the page site:...
Aug 25, 20242 min read
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Poem-a-Week: A Twofer of Poems and the Horizon Before Sunrise
If you live here in Arkansas as I do, you know this last week has had a couple of days that have been fricking hot. Twice, Kellie and I...
Aug 18, 20242 min read
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Poem-a-Week: I Have Four, but How Many Do You Need? Two? Yes, Two!
That's right! I have four poems that I could share today. For the past week, I have been leaving the editing of Uncle Boog and the...
Aug 11, 20242 min read
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Poem-a-Week Challenge: One of Three
Oh, boy! I wrote three poems this week, but I am only going to share one with you because this is the last Sunday before the Sunday that...
Aug 4, 20242 min read
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Poem-a-Week: I Think I Am Me
Quite frankly, a sunrise as beautiful as the one above that was taken last Friday morning can cause a person to have an existential...
Jul 28, 20242 min read
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Travelogue: Niagara Trip: The Last Day!
Honestly, I don't think that either Kellie or I anticipated that our road trip was at an end that day when we woke up in Lexington,...
Jul 27, 20245 min read
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Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day Five, Serpent Mound, Blue Lick Battlefield, Daniel Boone's Cabin, a Whisky Tasting Tour, and Dinner at Charlie Brown's
As you can tell from the title, the fifth day of our Niagara Trip was the busiest day of the trip. It was also one of the most...
Jul 25, 20245 min read
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Poem-a-Week Times Two: You Didn't Think I Had Forgotten Did You?
I took this picture the other day on one of my rose blossoms. My red rose bush is going crazy. It has over a dozen blooms on it right...
Jul 22, 20242 min read
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Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day Four, Rainy Day in Toronto--Nope!
I put " Accentuate the Positive Frog" at the top of this blog because I came off sounding fairly negative yesterday in the blog. I know...
Jul 19, 20245 min read
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Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day Three at the Falls
As you can see in the picture, we are at Niagara Falls, this was the best picture that I had of all three of the falls, the American...
Jul 18, 20247 min read
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Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day Two, Kinzua Bridge State Park
Pretty much exhausted from all the walking and riding the day before, Kellie and I lay asleep in the motel in La Grange, Kentucky on Day...
Jul 15, 20245 min read
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Travelogue: Niagara Trip: Day One
Sunday morning at 5:15 AM, Kellie and I hit the road for our trip whose final destination was Niagara Falls. However, for us, the journey...
Jul 14, 20244 min read
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A Hot Sun and a Cold Poem-of-the-Week
Kellie, Luna, and I go for a walk/hike every morning. We usually are out and about between 5:30 and 6:15 AM. One morning this week, we...
Jul 6, 20241 min read
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Bluebird Pugilist: The Poem-a-Week Challenge and Seeking Some Help
Bluebird Pugilist BAM! BAM! BAM! The bluebird rams the window with his chest. Tick! Tick! He strikes the glass pane with his beak. He...
Jun 30, 20242 min read
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Back at It! A Flower Picture and a Poem-a-Week!
Kellie took the picture of the Carolina Chicory above. It is growing in a few places around the fairgrounds where we go for our daily...
Jun 23, 20242 min read
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