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Every picture tells a story only if you know what that story is (a poem)

2022/01/09 — Leave a comment

I started this after reading Bill Drummond’s 3″ x 1″… Took me a few days to come back to it to fill in a couple of missing pieces.

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Firelaken (a poem)

2021/12/30 — 2 Comments

Sometimes when I write I write about how much trouble I’m having writing…

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Navigation (a poem)

2021/12/06 — Leave a comment

Written to a prompt. I know that’s not Australia in the photo (it’s Jersey), but it was the first thing to come to mind.

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An untitled poem about long ago Decembers (a poem)

2021/12/03 — Leave a comment

Self-explanatory…

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Profile (a poem)

2021/11/22 — Leave a comment

On another topic…

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After the flood (this time) (a poem)

2021/11/18 — Leave a comment

Continued.

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Five and a half hours (a poem)

2021/11/17 — Leave a comment

Thanks to a weekend of heavy rains, I found myself unable to get home the other night, as the freeway was blocked by a mudslide, and all the alternate routes were either closed due to flooding or essentially unpassable due to traffic accidents.

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Respite (a poem)

2021/11/11 — Leave a comment

My take on a prompt: “You’ve lived a long and difficult life surviving in the desert. One day you fall into a deep sleep. When you awake, you find yourself in a lush forest.”

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There’s a moment—like this one (a poem)

2021/11/07 — 2 Comments

Now that we have our hour back…

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I have a poor imagination (a poem)

2021/11/02 — Leave a comment

Working from a prompt: ‘Write a fictional version of your life where you made a different choice at a pivotal moment. What is your life like today after you made this past decision?’

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