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Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

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Outlier (a poem)

2017/01/23

Monday morning…
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This entry was posted in Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged cold, dream, images, January 2017, morning, poem, poetry, sunrise. Bookmark the permalink.

ART 53, day 62

2016/09/07

This Is Fifty-three, day 62

Up at 3:30 this morning because I had pizza last night—but that’s another story. I am at the computer early because Smashwords notified me that my file required attention…

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This entry was posted in Book Design, Books, Graphic Design, Poetry, Self-Promotion, Updates and tagged ART 53, book, e-book, formatting, images, Kevin does some venting, Mercury retrograde, revisions, This Is Fifty-Three. Bookmark the permalink.

Tumbling (a poem)

2016/09/05 — 2 Comments

Inspired by Tumblr feeds.
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged autumn, ekphrastic, feeds, images, impressions, poem, poetry, September 2016, Tumblr. Bookmark the permalink.

If you put the two together (a poem)

2016/08/20

Inspired by the hour glass and the dancer, by MiYoung Margolis, both currently hanging at VALA Art Center in Redmond…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2016, combination, ekphrastic, images, imagined diptych, impressions, MiYoung Margolis, paintings, poem, poetry, the dancer, the hour glass. Bookmark the permalink.

Photography (a poem)

2016/07/02

I do not yet have my writing challenge for the month of July yet, but this poem started with hearing someone say ‘in camera’ in something I was watching.

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged images, in camera, July 2016, overheard phrase, photography, poem, poetry. Bookmark the permalink.

Noise repellent (a poem)

2016/05/27

Sometimes, you should let the art speak for itself…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged images, May 2016, names, noise, outrageousness, poem, poetry, reflection, shock value, spectacle, verbless poem. Bookmark the permalink.

Day of the crescent moon (A poem)

2015/11/16

Impressions and images from a Sunday afternoon, written quickly…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged arrangements, clouds, images, impressions, line, moon, November 2015, offer, poem, poetry, rejection, scratches, stream of consciousness. Bookmark the permalink.

Dream spaces (a poem)

2015/07/05

Written while listening to Meditations on the Inescapable Self this morning…
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This entry was posted in Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged dreamlike, elements, images, July 2015, materials, poem, poetry. Bookmark the permalink.

NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 9: Thinking about what I write versus what you see (a poem)

2015/04/09

I don’t like any of the writing prompts I have seen today, so I am going with my first poem of the day, which is a brief contemplation about poetry…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged April 2015, feelings, images, NaPoWriMo 2015, poem, poetry, words, writing. Bookmark the permalink.

A place that can’t exist again (a poem)

2015/01/07

Inspired in part by a New York Times an NPR story about Chris Stein’s photography…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged 1970s, black-and-white, books, images, January 2015, memories, New York, photos, poem, poetry, punk. Bookmark the permalink.

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