Poetry

  • NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-Four

    I’ve commented here a couple of times that I write my best stuff when I focus on my rhymes and let my story write itself.  This poem is about that process. Enjoy, My Write Stuff I free the words inside my head, Not sure where they will lead. I only know releasing them, Fulfills some…

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  • The joy of walking back and forth to work is the simple pleasure of each day.  Having started in the middle of winter, the arrival of spring is especially enjoyable. Springing For Joy The days grow longer as we go, The snow is going fast. I have to say I won’t be sad, To see…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-Two

    For those who hadn’t heard, today is Earth Day.  This is the one day each year when we’re supposed to put away our rampant consumerism and give a crap about the planet we live on.  Seems to me that it might need more than one day a year.  Maybe that’s just me. Thoughts On The…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-One

    I have a hard time letting go of things.  To those who know me, feel free to not comment. At any rate, I have decided it’s time to take steps with another of my bad habits.  Enjoy! Less Toys…. More Joys Somewhere out there away from here, Is where we want to be. To leave…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Twenty

    Went to visit my wife’s family for Easter. We had a great time, but it did put me a bit behind poetry-wise.  So tonight is a ghost story that has been fermenting in the back of my brain for a while. Enjoy! Alone No More? The hour is late the lights are dim, I walk…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Nineteen

    I realize that I am part of that group of people referred to as “the chattering classes”.  I sit and write about all the things I see, but I don’t actually do anything to change them.  This is about me and all the others like me. Enough To Make You…. I sat and read the…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Eighteen

    I had a customer unload on me at work the other day.  They then justified it by telling me all the things currently going wrong in their life.  This is the answer I’m not really supposed to give at work. Being Emotionally Appropriate You may not always choose your place, You can’t choose your destiny.…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Seventeen

    I started a totally different poem earlier. Unfortunately, as I was writing it I realized I had no idea where the heck it was going. So I did some creative triage and moved on. Here is poem seventeen v2.0. Enjoy! Inspirationally Challenged My fevered brain has lost it’s words, I’ve naught to say tonight. And…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Sixteen

    Letting my mind write whatever it wants can lead to some unexpected outcomes.  It started out as a simple bit of horror.  Suddenly it’s about my father. Enjoy! A Child In The Dark The moon peeps through the lowering cloud, Makes shadows on the wall. I tell myself that’s what I see, Convince myself that’s…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day Fifteen

    Yesterday was just a little too bleak.  So today I figured to write about the one thing in my life that is always wonderful.  No matter how lousy I feel, my incredible wife is always there to make me smile. My Angel Lynn There is someone who listens as, I endlessly recite. And try to…

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