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Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

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Mirror selfie (a poem)

2016/06/05

Why do they always look at their phones instead of at the mirror?

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged June 2016, mirror, phone, poem, poetry, rimas dissolutas, selfie. Bookmark the permalink.

The look in her eyes (a poem)

2016/05/28

This one is strange to me, because I do not remember writing it.
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged eyes, look, May 2016, mirror, poem, poetry, reflection, sleeper, surprise, verbless poem. Bookmark the permalink.

Archaeology (a poem)

2016/05/26

I had no idea where that first line was going to go when it popped into my head…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged details, empty, exploration, layers, May 2016, mirror, place, poem, poetry, reflection, spaces, verbless poem. Bookmark the permalink.

Admonition to my mirror self (A poem)

2016/02/08

Back to the epistles, this time in the form of a terzanelle.
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged beauty, emotions, epistle, failure, February 2016, horror, limited view, mirror, missing things, poem, poetry, reflection, stagnation, success. Bookmark the permalink.

I’m drawn to her (a poem)

2014/11/09

No prompts—just thinking about a couple of people I know…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Writing and tagged attraction, friend, mirror, poem, poetry, reassurance, reflection, revelation, woman. Bookmark the permalink.
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