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A Poem Inspired by Thoughts More Sublime Than Usual
Yesterday, as I was seeking inspiration for a new poem, I searched through a folder called "Really, Really Rough Drafts," thinking that,...
Jul 31, 20222 min read
Chapter 1: Minding Someone Else’s Business by Dewey Lynne Bugler
Chapter 1 Minding Someone Else’s Business Dewey Lynne here. What’s up? I hope that things are going well for all you folks out there in...
Jul 30, 202212 min read
How I Came to Be in Prison and What Happened the Day Before I Was Arrested By Dewey Lynne Bugler
How I Came to Be in Prison and What Happened the Day Before I Was Arrested By Dewey Lynne Bugler Howdy, y’all! Dewey Lynne Bugler here....
Jul 25, 20229 min read
Oh, Dear! Publication Pushed Back Again!
Wow! Was I ever excited this morning when I got an email from the publisher around 8:30 with words in bold and all caps FINAL PROOFS!...
Jul 21, 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
Aunt Charlotte's Crib by Dewey Lynne Bugler
(Michael Thomas here, the real author of the Dewey Lynne stories, I would like to add a few warnings before you jump into this much...
Jun 24, 202243 min read
The Purple Thistle Requiem
This early morning as Kellie and I walked at the Fulton County fairgrounds and Salem city park, we happened upon a purple thistle bush...
Jun 22, 20224 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
More Pictures of Flowers and Sunsets and a Poem about Things I Saw or Did Not See
Anyway, lilies all over the yard are starting to bloom. We have yellow lilies and orange lilies. If they have different names, I am not...
Jun 5, 20222 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
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
April Hail Brings May Flowers: Somehow That Doesn't Seem Right: Oh! And a Poem
I have no idea what this tiny, tiny little flower is. There were three of them in the yard growing wild. Zoom in when you look at it. It...
May 15, 20222 min read
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