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Random thoughts, December 2016 (a poem)

2016/12/06 — 1 Comment

Perhaps not literary excellence, but this is what I came up with today…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged commercials, December 2016, Ghostbusters, poem, poetry, Star Trek, thoughts. Bookmark the permalink.

The intangibility of dream beings and unfamiliar songs (a poem)

2016/12/04 — Leave a comment

Had a dream about Lucy last night. It was an odd setting; I remember holding her briefly, but then she went hiding…

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Constructing thick layers of dust (a poem)

2016/12/02 — Leave a comment

Written while watching the On the Edge symposium on YouTube…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged art, body of work, composition, December 2016, effort, perception, poem, poetry, writing. Bookmark the permalink.

An autumn afternoon in Seattle (a poem)

2016/11/29 — Leave a comment

Spacing out at the library after working on a copy-editing job…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged autumn, Finnish, leaves, Mercer Street, mountain, Mt. Rainier, November 2016, poem, poetry, Renton Airport, SAD, Seattle. Bookmark the permalink.

Trail of tears (dub) (a poem)

2016/11/28 — Leave a comment

Having finished the alphabet poems, I was going to take a break—but then a line popped into my head this afternoon while I was at the book store. (The ‘refrain’ comes from the title of a Herbie Hancock album I saw at that same book store.)

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Alphabet Poem #26

2016/11/26 — 1 Comment

The Z poem. Another tricky one, until I remembered a German phrase I happened upon years ago…

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged 26 lines, alphabet poem, November 2016, poem, poetry, Z. Bookmark the permalink.

Alphabet Poem #25

2016/11/25 — Leave a comment

The Y poem.

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Alphabet Poem #24

2016/11/24 — Leave a comment

The X poem—especially tricky, given the lack of useful words that start with that letter, and since I wanted to avoid the obvious x-ray, xylophone and X marks the spot. The multifaceted XO to the rescue!

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Alphabet Poem #23

2016/11/23 — Leave a comment

The W poem.

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Alphabet Poem #22

2016/11/22 — Leave a comment

The V poem.

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