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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.-Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and thought has found words--Robert Frost

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance--Carl Sandburg

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry--John Cage

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you--Joseph Joubert

Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. ~Dylan Thomas

joybragi84
Nov 13, 20222 min read

A Picture of a Beautiful Flower, News About What I Am Doing, and an Invitation to Revisit Uncle Boog


Kellie took this picture last week of this little flower that bloomed in a flower pot on the porch. With the 20 degree temperatures last night, pretty much everything but the Mums are toast, and they are not looking too good.

Anyway, yesterday, I started on some revisions to Uncle Boog and the Dogfight. You see, the problem is that the story that I began as a serial story, making up each part as I wrote it with no plan where it was going, ended up being around 38,000 words. That is 18,000 words too long to submit to publications as a short story, and something like 22,000 words short of novel length. Thus, I have two options. I can shorten it and skip a lot of information, or I can add to it. My first thought was to add to it, so that is what I am doing.

As long as I am working on that project, I probably won't be putting out much other stuff unless I feel inspired. I thoroughly believe in writing inspired poetry when I feel it, and when I do feel it, I put all else aside. I do not control when I am inspired, so it is impossible for me to say if I might be. Generally, when I am in a period of lucid dreaming, I get my best ideas.

Anyhow, I am still reading and listening for requests, but unless I get some, I am going to work on revising Uncle Boog and the Dogfight.

I would invite all of my readers to revisit Uncle Boog and the Dogfight. It is in the blog under its own tab in the drop menu if you select the little down arrow. The story is saved in Dropbox as a PDF document, so you can download it to your computer. Please read it again or for the first time, and please feel free to offer suggestions where you would lengthen the story by adding more to it. I do listen to my readers whenever they offer advice.

Usually, I end with the word ENJOY! but I have given you nothing to read. About, later?

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I find that I cannot exist without Poetry--without eternal poetry--half the day will not do--the whole of it--I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan.-John Keats

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value.-T. S. Eliot

A man may praise and praise, but no one recollects but that which pleases.-George Gordon, Lord Byron

The great beauty of poetry is that it makes everything in every place interesting.-John Keats

Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of wit; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image, and half of abstract meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery.-S. T. Coleridge

The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which is the one moment of creation.-W. B. Yeats

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