I’m pleased to announce that my poem Nuts has been published online in YourDailyPoem.com.
Category Archives: alienation
Counting
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How these times test our faith, our core of restraint, decency, and sense of continuity …
Some Somethings Ain’t Nothing: A Little Friday Fictioneer Nothing
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For Continuous Relief on the Oxycontin Line: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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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….
Thank you, Ike.
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Does Love Trump All? Or, Does Trump Love All? Or, Do All Love Trump? Tweet Tweet.
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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
Shakespeare Never Wrote That Love Trumps All (or Trump Loves All)
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A very silly spin on a serious subject. Dr. Seuss meets William Shakespeare meets the Downfall of the Western World as I know it. Ha…
The Consummate Inn: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Everything is consummated. Fighting with your emotions does not change things, neither does sitting on a couch eating yourself up…
Operatives: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Make of this as you will, some might say that the ball park changes, but never the game… who knows?
There’s a New Restaurant Replacing the Old Diner: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Last week we wrote about responding to change with music. This week change comes in the manner of menus and new restaurants…
Responding with Music to a Change in the Spheres: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Chop-Chop for the Bourgeoisie: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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What You Gonna Do Today? The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Worlds Apart: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Where occident and orient… Collide? Intersect? Parallel? Mimic? Join? You choose…
Love: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Love calls, touches, resounds, dreams, and threatens, but is it enough to save us….
There is a Wall: dVerse ~ Poets Pub
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We live in a world of walls, comprising all sorts of rooms – most man-made – some concrete, others imaginary – ultimately though, we do not get to choose that last room, do we?
Buck It (Apperception): The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Life just is. Though there is something in us which causes us to create sense out of our lives in relation to the world around us. Levity forces me to title the poem (as well as the need to fit … Continue reading
The Last Action News: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Sex, politics, senseless shootings, exploitative news. It’s all here.
A Bird on the Wire: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Loneliness is a dark thing, closeted away, along with other skeletons….
Significance: Friday Fictioneers
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Sometimes, some things make you feel significant. Sometimes they don’t…
A Civil Society: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Feds To Investigate Fowl Play By Local Police: Friday Fictioneers
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Shaking the Snow Globe, Watching the Sun Rise: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Making Life Count: Friday Fictioneers
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A petite jaunt into existentialism: a small hand salute to Sartre, the French, and living…
Separation: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Pipeline: Friday Fictioneers
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There’s always another lesson to be learned. Just not when Jimmy is in the class…
Our Blue World: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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The Trumphant Recipe: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Nobody does it bitter (sic)… Each week The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “Wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is: The Trumphant Recipe Here’s a neat trick you … Continue reading
Mending Walls: Friday Fictioneers
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The Skirt at the Bridge: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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The Hard Scrabble of Radiance
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Execration and the Stable Wars: Friday Fictioneers
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Voice: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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When will the inhumanity end? When will social justice really begin? It’s not just color, it’s fear, greed, ignorance and more…
In Regards to the Email
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Sun. Clouds. Rains.: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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A fun childlike poetic tribute to the failures of the leadership of our corporations, the failure of our leadership in the Justice Department, and ultimately our President and Congress. And, certainly, everyone’s failure to abide by ethical principles and a … Continue reading
Maybe Follow a Mellow Prick Toad: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Nobody’s happy all the time, and sometimes we all just want to pack it in…
Meandering the Edges of My Mind: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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A sonnet just for you. A little fun. A little struggle. Life met on life’s terms… never easy to fathom.
Home Going: Five Sentence Fiction
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Most people celebrate Home Comings, the deceased, it is said, are Going Home, this young lady though was waiting on a Home Going… Lillie McFerrin posts a “Five Sentence Fiction” prompt. This week it is: Waiting Home Going I don’t … Continue reading