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Poetry
As I contemplate the empty walls in my room two days before Xmas (a poem)
One of my favorite songs is Yukihiro Takahashi’s X’mas Day in the Next Life, the song I was thinking of when I started this…
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All for the blue, tiles discarded (a poem)
A late entry. I’m watching a very strange Japanese drama involving a very strange game of mahjongg, and wrote this…
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Fixated (a poem)
A senryu. The starting point comes from a poem by Sarah Doughty (‘my soul’s missing piece’) and a Twitter post by Tanya Simone Simpson (‘oral fixation’).
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Future prognostication is not an exact science (a poem)
I forget what I was watching this morning while waking up, but that’s where the first line of this poem comes from…
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Remember, you asked for this (a poem)
Inspired by a phrase from a rejection letter. (Me? Bitter? Naw…)
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Viz. an authoritative definition of chemistry (a poem)
I lifted a couple of lines from one of my own poems for today’s entry. (Yes, an hypothesis is intentional.)
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It’s a little complicated (a poem)
Inspired by Future Man; the first line of part 3 comes from the name of an old-age home.
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Musings on modern poetry and the hidden strength of words (a poem)
Inspired in part by this video, which I am guessing is from the early 1990s, based on the physical appearance of the participants…
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My thoughts are a checkerboard of indecisive moves (a poem)
Taking a longer poem I wrote last month and giving it a severe editing…
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