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Michael Thomas Thoughts on Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, and Ramblings-It's All Here in...
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Dec 6, 20234 min read
Snowy Sunday Morning
Well, our second full day in Santa Fe, we had plans to go into the mountains and hike to the Jemez Springs waterfall and other places....
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Dec 3, 20232 min read
Saturday Afternoon in Santa Fe
When Kellie and I came out of the International Folk art museum filled with toys and paper mache, the rain had stopped and a beautiful...
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Nov 26, 20234 min read
Hitting the Santa Fe Trail: Travelogue, Still on Saturday
Well, Kellie reminded me that I had probably better not promise how much of a day I will fit into the blog in the title, so I am still on...
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Nov 24, 20235 min read
Back on the Blog and the Road Again: A Travelogue and Other Amusing Info
Yes, my faithful readers, friends, family, and other, I noted that it has been two months and one day since I have posted a blog. I have...
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Sep 23, 20231 min read
An Autumnal Portent: A New (Short) Poem and A Few Pictures of Fall Flowers
Well, folks, here it is with only a few days left in September and many different flowers in our yard have decided to bloom once again....
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Aug 27, 202311 min read
The Wandering Goat: A Challenge from AI to Create a Fable
So, the other day, I am fiddling around with OpenAI trying to figure out how I am going to cope with and/or use artificial intelligence's...
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Aug 12, 20232 min read
Friend: A New Poem! No Revisions Today!
Comments below the poem and pictures. ENJOY! Friend, (Inspired by a P. Shelley fragment) Sit down here and clear your mind Of all its...
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Aug 6, 20232 min read
A Couple of Revisions, Some Sketches, and a Sunrise
Well, I have to be honest. Apparently, my regular readers are not too keen on reading revised poems. Generally, each blog post gets...
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Aug 1, 20232 min read
Two More Revisions: This May Go Faster Than You Think
I had no idea what the flower in the picture above was without looking it up on that wonderful website: https://identify.plantnet.org/....
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Jul 31, 20232 min read
Revisions, Revisions, Revisions: Or Are There Only Two?
As all my faithful readers know, I have pronounced it the Season of Revision. That's right! No new stuff until all of the old stuff is...
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Jul 26, 20233 min read
The Spider's Web: Showing What Revisions Can Make Me Do
Comments after the poem! Enjoy! The Spider’s Web I saw a spider spin her web From the window in my room. I was muted in the dark. She was...
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Jul 23, 20232 min read
A New Nature Poem (?) And Some Random Pretty Pictures of Nature
Comments after another picture and the poem. Enjoy! Sing Along Like All the Other Birds That a dove taking to wing Is a most poetic thing...
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Jul 12, 20233 min read
Moon Diver: Slight Return (a lyric poem) And the Answer to a Reader's Question in Picture
Comments after poem! Enjoy! The Moon Diver (Slight Return) Beware the doldrums of July, When whippoorwill and firefly May make you feel...
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Jul 10, 20232 min read
Surviving July: A Short Lyric Poem with Some Pictures
Going back to the old way, the comments are after the poem--and so are a couple pictures of some flowers. Surviving July A trembling ball...
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Jul 5, 20231 min read
A Short Poem About Sunrises and a Few Pictures of Them
So...for the last few weeks, Kellie and I have been getting up around 5:30 AM to go on our daily walks with our dog Luna. Being out that...
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Jun 30, 20232 min read
A New Nature Poem
L'est we forget that my blog is really a blog about poetry and having a place to share my poems and the pictures that accompany them, I...
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Jun 29, 20234 min read
Wrapping Up the Travelogue: Personal Tips on Visiting London and the UK
Let's begin this with a picture that I left out from our day in York. I was sitting in the hotel looking at Google maps to see which...
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Jun 28, 20233 min read
Day Eight: A Bus Ride, Two Plane Rides, a Helluva Lot of Walking, a Car Ride, and Back at Home
Kellie and I were up in Oxford early as usual, but there was no particular hurry. Our flight from London Heathrow was at 2:10 PM, and the...
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Jun 27, 20234 min read
Day Seven: Oxford, the City of Universities and Buildings
Kellie and I were up early in Nottingham, packed our backpacks again, and headed to the train station for Oxford. The train ride from...
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Jun 26, 20233 min read
Nottingham: Day Six, the Rest of the Day
I am going to be honest. After Kellie and I returned from Newstead Abbey, I did not take a single picture the rest of the day. Kellie...
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