Shakespeare Once Wrote

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  A Year of Encouragements

A New Day.

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A Year of Encouragements

We all need some encouragement each day. Here’s what I do…

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A Year of Encouragements Because Life Doesn’t Come with an Instruction Manual

Announcing the Publication of

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A Year of Encouragements Because Life Doesn’t Come with an Instruction Manual is now available on Amazon and other distributors Continue reading →

Four Poetry Announcements I’m pleased to announce the following: Georgia Poetry Society, 2020 Member Excellence Contest, Honorable Mention, for Draining Lake Nottely. Georgia Poetry Society, The Non-Sense Poetry Award, Honorable Mention, for the discussion of nonce at the poetry roundtable  Both … Continue reading →

Two New Poems Published in The MacGuffin

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Once again I am proud to announce the publication of two of my poems in the latest edition of The MacGuffin: Fall 2020, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3.

My Poem “Cervantes’ Straw” is online at YourDailyPoem.com – September 14, 2020

Once again, I’m pleased to announce that my poem Cervantes’ Straw is now online at YourDailyPoem.com .

New Poem Published in Dissident Voice

My latest poem, a political satire entitled “A Message from Homeland Security to all Neighborhood Homeowners,” has been published online in the Dissident Voice Newsletter.

A Poet’s A French Pirate has been published in DASH Literary Journal (13th Edition 2020)

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It’s with great pleasure that I share with you my most recently published poem

My Short Story “A Snake in the Garden of Campus Life” Is Now Published Online With Defenestration Literary Magazine

I’m pleased to announce that my short story “A Snake in the Garden of Campus Life” has been published online with Defenestration Literary Magazine.

My Poem “Nuts” is online at MyDailyPoem.com April 16, 2020

I’m pleased to announce that my poem Nuts has been published online in YourDailyPoem.com.

My poem “I Make Silence of the Lambs Look Foolish” is online at NECRO magazine

I recently attended a class at Young Harris College regarding the use of humor in poetry. The class was called “Levity and the Line.” Among several pieces that I wrote, the following involved the use of limericks in various forms … Continue reading →

My Poem “To E.E. and Billy: My Two Best Friends” is online at MyDailyPoem.com

I’m pleased to announce that my poem To E.E. and Billy: My Two Best Friends has been published online in YourDailyPoem.com.

Gertie And Morris in a “Slice of Type” only on Friday Fictioneers

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No, it’s not exactly a ribbon cutting event, but…

Gertie And Morris Try a Little Tenderness: Only on Friday Fictioneers

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It’s not exactly Italy, but…

Morris Buys a Watermelon: The Continuing Adventures Only on Friday Fictioneers

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Morris schlepps Gertie to a seedy part of town for a bargain. But will it be more than he bargained for?

Gertie and Morris On Stage: The Continuing Adventures Only on Friday Fictioneers

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Morris is hungry for theater. Gertie is hungry, well, for pastrami?

When You Need Some Time Away to Think, a Barn is not the Place: Friday Fictioneers

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Gertie books a place for them so that Morris can get away and think. But, boy, does it go awry!

Like Child’s Play for a President: New Poem up on Light’s Poem of the Week

Please visit Light Magazine’s Poem of the Week to see my latest poem regarding the President’s current assault on our water supply. Click here: Light Magazine Poems of the Week to read: Like Child’s Play for a President Thank you … Continue reading →

My poem “Bald Mountains Have Hope” will be online at YourDailyPoem.com, Saturday 12/14/19

My poem “Bald Mountains Have Hope” will be the Poem of the Day showing on Your Daily Poem – Home Saturday, December 14, 2019. My thanks and appreciation to Ms. Jayne Jaudon Ferrer, Editor, for her acceptance of this piece. … Continue reading →

My Poem “Moments” is now available in The Spirit It Travels

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My poem “Moments” is now available as part of the anthology, The Spirit It Travels: An Anthology of Transcendent Poetry, edited by Ms. Nina Alvarez, published by Cosmographia Books. Please see the announcement of its arrival and its summary below: … Continue reading →

Again! Friday Fictioneers

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We say “never again,” but it’s here again…

So it’s not Katz’s Deli? Friday Fictioneers

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Another new adventure for Gertie and Morris…

Annie Goatley, A Goat’s Tale: Friday Fictioneers

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Since it was my picture, you know, I just couldn’t resist…

Counting

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Don’t we all want to count, matter, make it all add up somehow…

How

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How these times test our faith, our core of restraint, decency, and sense of continuity …

Disappearing Times

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The times table, the New York Times, bed time, tea time, time out and disappearing times…

Gertrude and Jack Attend a Resist Trump Rally: Friday Fictioneers

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We all show up at wrong parties from time to time – whether birthday parties, whoopee parties or political parties…

Taking Charge: Friday Fictioneers

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Every parent has to take charge. Please and thank you only goes so far; nagging certainly doesn’t work and we often let things get way too far out of hand…

The Puddling Rain (in tribute to Leonid Afremov’s painting Friends Under the Rain)*

Two women, one umbrella, and a puddling rain make for the perfect poetic pose…

Making the Best of It: Friday Fictioneers

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Sometimes even the back-up plan has a hiccup…

Some Somethings Ain’t Nothing: A Little Friday Fictioneer Nothing

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Some nothings aren’t even sweet to whisper in an ear…

Yarnspinerr and the Limp Blades: A Friday Fictioneer Steamy Mystery

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“When spinning a steamy yarn, do not look to a fan base.” Confucius, 500 B.C., on the golden rule of steamy yarn-spinning.

Four Dead Mah-jongg Players: Friday Fictioneers

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When you’re dead and you have nothing really to do…

New Poem Published: “The Last Action News”

My latest published poem, “The Last Action News”, is now online with HCE, Here Comes Everyone. The issue’s theme was a call for brutal poetry. Please visit it by clicking the following link: The Last Action News. (Or, cut and … Continue reading →

Brothers: Friday Fictioneers

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Brothers, siblings, rivals. Always teasing, testing the limits, manipulating. Like some adults we know? Even countries? Presidents, too? OK. So how will this one end?

Life is Unrelated: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Darwinism, knowledge, the moon and who we are – what’s it all about?

For Continuous Relief on the Oxycontin Line: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

Inspired by the recent article in the New Yorker Magazine, the on-going heartbreak of addiction and lack of action by our elected officials to stop the onslaught….

The Best of It: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Whether you live on a fringe, the edge, or right smack dab in the middle of it, we make the best of it. Don’t we?

Better than Disney World: Friday Fictioneers

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This kid would rather ride a ferry than be at Disney first thing in the morning. He’s not my child. I think some dibbick has invaded him…

Bob Dylan Meets Adam and Eve on a Whirling Sunday: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Imagine a whirling Sunday of serious humor and religious quackery, a parody and an oxymoron, in which Bob Dylan hooks up with Adam and Eve to decipher God’s Word out on a Highway 61 in the town of Eden while … Continue reading →

I Offered My Heart on Wounded Knees (an indigenous love story)

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Love can be offered in many ways, in many places …

on sunday morning: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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I think we have all felt this way at one point or another in our lives…

It Doesn’t Take an Einstein to Bake a Bagel

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Baking can be fun in the New World, but some misses are inevitable…

dVerse ~ Poets Pub: A Higher Magic

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A challenge to write a poem about magic and a prompt of a poem by Shel Silverstein, that was deliciously magical in and of itself, and I couldn’t resist the magic temptation…

dVerse ~ Poets Pub: Shoes With Laces (with love to Shel Silverstein)

I love the topic of shoes and I love Shel Silverstein, both of which have such great soles and souls…

Happy July 4th – and please celebrate with me my latest publication

I Once Loved A Northern Mockingbird is now published in the latest edition of the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review 2017 Spring/Summer Edition.

Thank you, Ike.

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Pure poetry. This speaks for itself. What a relief…. Thanks, Ike.

Third Poem Accepted

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While I am awaiting notification of the publication of my second accepted poem, I’ve received notification that a third poem has been accepted

Does Love Trump All? Or, Does Trump Love All? Or, Do All Love Trump? Tweet Tweet.

Well, my first poem is now posted in, get this, The Rat’s Ass Review. Heck, you got to start someplace. The piece is on a page entitled, “Such an Ugly Time”, reflecting thoughts about the first 100 days of Trump’s … Continue reading →