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 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.

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 →

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…

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…

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 →

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?

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 →

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…

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…

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 →

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…

Without a Marker, There is No Time: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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If words had no commas, hyphens, semicolons, periods, would they be sentences? Would a question mark be recognized, or would they, words, just all hang like stars in an endless sky?

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…

Fear

Fear faces us every day whether we acknowledge it or deny it.

Chop-Chop for the Bourgeoisie: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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A mélange of the masses…

What You Gonna Do Today? The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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We face a choice today, whether we recognize it or not…

Sewing the Stars in the Night: An Ovillejo for The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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The night stars look like lit needle points across the sky…

A Deferential Specter of Beginning Life with a Laugh:The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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From out of the waters, onto land….

It Is: dVerse ~ Poets Pub

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You decide if it is…

A Shadowy Delight: dVerse ~ Poets Pub

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To challenge myself further, in addition to the theme of “shadow” and the 44 word limit, I have constructed a 5 line poem of exactly 11 syllables per line.

Worlds Apart: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Where occident and orient… Collide? Intersect? Parallel? Mimic? Join? You choose…

Cervantes’ Straw: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Nobody’s faster at chocolate milk sipping than grandpa…

Clerihews

For an interesting post with little known and humorous information regarding clerihews, please visit dVerse ~ Poets Pub: Form For All; the Clerihew .

Listening to Mrs. Hunnecuts’ Latest Wild Gossip: Wordle

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Step right up to the clothesline to learn about life in this old town…

The Pieces Never Do Stay Together: Friday Fictioneers

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Rebirth ain’t all that it’s cracked up to be. At least not from this poem’s POV…

Kelly’s Turn: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Step up to the plate on this one…

Death and His Taxes: A Tricube

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I recently read in Robert Lee Brewer’s column, Poetic Asides, from the September 2016 Writer’s Digest issue that a tricube poem

A Scarred Prophet: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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We look for inspiration, but when we get it we often cannot get passed the presentation of it. The packaging mars the revelation.

Oh, Panama!

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What a wonderful discovery that was made this week. A magical land that wasn’t supposed to be discovered. Where the rich can become richer and deny that they are. Wow.

It Used to Be That We Used Words: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Nowadays you don’t need words to start a war, just a computer…

There Is No Word That I Can Speak: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Love may go unrequited, but it always rises from the ashes….

A Contrarian Spirit of Levity: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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We can waste a lot of time seeking God, becoming bitter when He doesn’t reveal Himself – or we can just…

By the Waters of Our Lives: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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The quixotic milieu of life, defies words, is not mute, pulses rhythms, and is totem in its being…