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Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

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We don’t have cloudbursts where I live (a poem)

2020/05/07 — Leave a comment

I was listening to ‘Cloudburst on Shingle Street’ by Thomas Dolby, which got me to thinking about rain…
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Fermata (a poem)

2020/05/05 — Leave a comment

Impressions from another long day…
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Fade (a poem)

2020/05/04 — Leave a comment

After a long day…
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Dear Monday…

2020/05/04 — Leave a comment

Dear Monday,

How did you go by so fast?

Love,
Kevin

(4 May 2020)

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Dear Sunday…

2020/05/03 — Leave a comment

Dear Sunday,

What isn’t makeshift these days?

Love,
Kevin

(3 May 2020)

This entry was posted in General/Miscellany, Life, Musings, Writing and tagged Dear Sunday, love notes to the days of the week, May 2020, year 7. Bookmark the permalink.

At least now the killer bees will have someone to play with (a poem)

2020/05/02 — Leave a comment

Brought on by articles in the New York Times and Washington Post…
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Dear Saturday…

2020/05/02 — Leave a comment

Dear Saturday,

Ugh. Headache.

Love,
Kevin

(2 May 2020)

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Dear Friday…

2020/05/01 — Leave a comment

Dear Friday,

At least you’ve got the sun going for you.

Love,
Kevin

(1 May 2020)

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Pruning (a poem)

2020/05/01 — Leave a comment

We return you now to our regularly scheduled programming…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged April 2020, poem, poetry. Bookmark the permalink.

National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 30

2020/04/30 — Leave a comment

I went with an alternate prompt for Day 30: ‘Make a found poem from some of the lines you wrote in your NaPoWriMo poems. Use at least 8 different poems and write a poem at least 10 lines long.’ Each line of this poem comes from earlier poems. Continue reading

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