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Observation: We’re going to get old (a poem)

2016/10/15 — 1 Comment

Bonus round! This is apparently what happens when I spend the day watching documentaries about well-known figures…

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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #9

2016/04/09 — 1 Comment

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a poem ‘that includes a line that you’re afraid to write…because it expresses something very personal that makes you uncomfortable…’
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged aging, April 2016, death, loneliness, NaPoWriMo 2016, poem, poetry, prompt, solitude, time, uncomfortable. Bookmark the permalink.

16.3.16 (A poem)

2016/03/17 — 2 Comments

A birthday pantoum…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged aging, beer, books, day, dreams, March 2016, pantoum, past, poem, poetry, present, sleep, songs, time, youth. Bookmark the permalink.

Old photo of the young artist (A poem)

2015/10/25

My copy of David Sylvian’s book Hypergraphia arrived in yesterday’s mail…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged age, aging, fold, October 2015, paper, photograph, poem, poetry, stains, tears, textures. Bookmark the permalink.
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