Dorothy Parker and Girls Who Have Rashes: Limerick Off Monday

I’ve met several women with rashes. They’re waiting to meet you, too….

Today is about professions and promises…

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some time honored, some kept, some broken, some no longer remembered, some regretted new names for old professions, new callings, and new pledges.                             The Miller’s Conundrum … Continue reading →

Lost Inside of Rembrandt’s Poem: Self-Portrait with Two Circles (1660) – Reason 2 Rhyme “Tribute”

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kbnelson’s Reason2Rhyme Poetry Prompt – “Tribute” Ms. Nelson’s prompt for this week is: write a poem to or about someone you admire. You don’t have to personally know them to pay tribute to them. Write a poem honoring one of … Continue reading →

Time to move from writing to reading… II

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In May, I printed a reading list. I ‘d like to update a few since then:                   Highly Recommended Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.       Very different, loved the … Continue reading →

Gambino: The Stage Struck English Teacher Teaches Human Sexuality

Everyone has a school teacher they’ll never forget. Mine was an 8th grade English lit teacher by the name of Mr. Gambino. He was a frustrated English teacher and failed Shakespearean actor. If you who missed the previous installments, please … Continue reading →

Temporacus, The Glad Gladiator: the Arts of War and Rites of Passage (Part Sevenus)

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If you missed Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,  Part 4,  Part V,  or Part Sixus Just click-us the link-us; and hook-us up-pus. Here a click and there a click. Everywhere a click-click. Temporacus, the Glad Gladiator, The Arts of … Continue reading →

Everyone has a school teacher they’ll never forget… (Part 3)

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Mine was an 8th grade English lit teacher. Who was yours? Mr. Gambino was a frustrated English teacher and failed Shakespearean actor. If you who missed the first installment of The Stage Struck English Teacher, please click here to catch … Continue reading →

Temporacus, the Glad Gladiator, Dark Clouds Rising (Part 4)

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Come, children, and continue to listen to the tales of Temporacus. Dark clouds rising…. If you missed parts I, II, and III (click the Roman Numerals) Temporacus, the Glad Gladiator, from the Roman Books of Ben Gay, Ben Hur’s first … Continue reading →

A Psalm of the Oppressed

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We are trampled upon, the young and old, the working man, the single parent, asked to do more, give more, and do with less. For what? Why?      While others take, and take more and more, and pay less, give less, and care … Continue reading →

6 or 8 word stories? You got to be kidding. (Part 2)

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We recently posted about writing 6 or 8 word stories? You got to be kidding?.   Hemingway’s famous: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. was cited as an example. We offered a few more. Today we post a few more … Continue reading →

One of my favorite poets is e e cummings

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One of my favorite poets is e e cummings He has influenced much of my writing. And “in Just-” is one of my favorites. And while I know it’s summer – a little late to be posting this poem – … Continue reading →

Temporacus, the Glad Gladiator Returns (Part 3)

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If you missed Part 1, click here and if you missed Part 2, click here Temporacus, the Glad Gladiator, from the Roman Books of Ben Gay, Ben Hur’s first born son and close friend of Spartacus. The Anals continue….   … Continue reading →

Tales from the Blue, Part II

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Yogi once said, “Little League is great because it keeps parents off the streets” Boy, was he ever wrong. If you missed Tales from the Blue, Part I, just click here to visit. We posted it here on The Writer’s … Continue reading →

Haiku’s

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These are the haiku’s of party politics, occupy wall and word and world street,  the who-cares and who-gives-a-crap turnpike to the beating down of the beaten down – the old, the poor, the jew and gentile, the gypsy, the uneducated, … Continue reading →

The Owl on the Avenue

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How many times have you driven along a road only to see an owl, or maybe it was a squirrel, or some other animal on its hind legs, or standing, or turned to stare at you as you were driving … Continue reading →

More Billy Collins

We’re back again with more Billy Collins! If you missed our first blog – we reprinted his Introduction to Poetry on  May 12. Inspired by him so much, we are moved to post him again. This time with him reading … Continue reading →

Stories from the Blue

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Carpe Diem – Seize the Day. In baseball, it’s Carpe Call-um.  Seize the Call. Or as Yogi Berra would say, I call ’em as I seize ’em Stories from the Blue My 21 year old nephew, Michael, no longer able … Continue reading →

Gambino: The Stage Struck English Teacher Rides Again

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 For those of you who missed the first installment of The Stage Struck English Teacher  please click this link The Stage Struck English Teacher  to catch up with Mr. Gambino, our 8th grade frustrated English teacher and failed Shakespearean actor. … Continue reading →

Today we’re “clerihewing” our Facebook editorial from yesterday

Faceless

Zuckerberg’s Eduardo Saverin,
Facebook’s faceless evil twin,
took American dollars ne’er to be seen ag’in, off-shore
to Singapore.

Randy Mazie

In the endless dark of the night, there is

Have you ever been up so late that the evening was totally still? Did you strain for the comfort of familiar night sounds? Are you thrown into worry when the lights are off in a dark room and you have to … Continue reading →

Sometimes You Just Got to Be Silly

In keeping with a little more silliniess: I am posting this chapter from the gospel of the Mouse in the Desert. It is well known and respected in the Animalia Kingdom. Though wee in stature, it words ring true for … Continue reading →

The Ivy League Baseball Team? Oh Boy….

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Okay. It’s time for a little change up (pun intended)  in the writing here. Let’s do some soft ball for a moment… My son and I were sitting at the kitchen table, discussing his favorite subject, baseball, and we got … Continue reading →

The Family Meal

It didn’t just start at the dinner table, did it?But many great stories were told while sharing the meal. Join me in the journey to the dinner table; the then tell me your own tales. A Tale a tale a … Continue reading →

6 or 8 word stories? You got to be kidding.

In David Jacobsen’s web site: http://jacobsenwriting.com/ you will read the following: My friend Ross has a post up about very short stories… based on Hemingway’s famous: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. There’s a lot packed into that, right? …today’s … Continue reading →

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

one of my favorites… Introduction to Poetry       Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into … Continue reading →

Some poems are well over my head…

Too difficult. Though I don’t like admitting it. I research words and phrases. Sometimes they are way too personal. I read them again seeking small parts to take away and smell, or hold up to light, maybe try to taste … Continue reading →

Trees… who needs them?

What were they once? And now? What are your trees? Where are they? Read these two shorts poems; share yours   The Telephone Pole, formerly known as The Tree Bridled in strung lines, Carrying messages, intimate or otherwise, Reduced to … Continue reading →

Everyone has a school teacher they’ll never forget…

Mine was an 8th grade English lit teacher. Who was yours? Read about Gambino – and then write about your school teacher experiences. The Stage Struck English Teacher        by Randy Mazie Mr. Gambino was our pock-marked 8th grade frustrated … Continue reading →

Ramble in the Fields….

guys just got to have fun…Cyndi. kick off your Sunday shoes; please pull me off a my knees; get back before we crack; lose your blues…       Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford Let’s have some fun and ramble…. ********************************************************************************* I’m just sitting … Continue reading →

The Miller’s Promise…

promises made and broken, dreams lost, hard work gone awry,  disappointments… read The Miller’s Promise” let us in on your own… The Miller’s Promise       by Randy Mazie The promise of milled grains in keeping time, spent season’s finest feast, a … Continue reading →

Upon Maurice Sendak’s Death…

wild thing, you made my heart sing…

May 8, 1924… Dad

Today would have been my dad’s 88th birthday. He died a few months ago. From Alzheimer’s. Some of you might think it just old age – it was not. It was the slow thieving by a disease from a man … Continue reading →

Planes… so many types of planes.

Flying planes. Straight planes. Carpenter’s planes. Three dimensional planes. Spiritual planes. http://kvennarad.wordpress.com/ poemed about a flying machine; I went spiritual in response. Go where you will with yours….  Spiritual Planes …by Randy Mazie white-winged, nailed into cross-puffed grey clouds, proudly-humbled-looking-down-calling … Continue reading →

On writing

How do you write? Where do you write? What do you write about? Who do you write to? When do you write? What blocks you from writing? What moves you to write? Good questions for this first page of The … Continue reading →