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Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

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Woods (a poem)

2016/07/11

Watching a Japanese drama on Netflix…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged bridge, evening, hill, July 2016, overheard phrase, owls, poem, poetry, scene, stream, trees, woods. Bookmark the permalink.

My Monday (a verbless haiku chain)

2016/05/16

Oh, Monday!
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged chance, clock, evening, failed message, favor deficit, May 2016, Monday, next steps, poem, poetry, Simprovised, verbless poem, wait. Bookmark the permalink.

NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 17: A late autumn evening in 1982 (a poem)

2015/04/17 — 2 Comments

For Day 17, I went with the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt, which was to write a swing poem…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged 1982, 2015 April PAD Challenge, April 2015, darkness, evening, Japan, music, NaPoWriMo 2015, poem, poetry, Roxy Music, swing poem, Writer's Digest. Bookmark the permalink.

Paris, 2015 (a poem)

2015/04/06

Today’s entry in the Writer’s Digest 2015 April PAD Challenge involves writing a ‘things-not-as-they-appear’ poem…

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