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Have you suffered enough? (a poem)

2015/08/18 — Leave a comment

Up early this morning, I was watching Sliders, of all things…
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged art, August 2015, dangers, debris, demands, hazards, imagination, love, path, poem, poetry, security, shelter, time, wreckage. Bookmark the permalink.

Trixie (a poem)

2015/08/18 — Leave a comment

Self-explanatory.
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2015, cat, lack of interest, poem, poetry, silence, Trixie. Bookmark the permalink.

Words are more important now (a poem)

2015/08/16 — Leave a comment

Thinking about how things have changed these last couple of years or so…
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2015, changes, meaning, message, music, poem, poetry, words. Bookmark the permalink.

Feast and famine (a poem)

2015/08/15 — Leave a comment

A rare instance in which I wrote a poem on my phone.
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2015, choices, circumstance, experience, feast or famine, narratives, poem, poetry. Bookmark the permalink.

One of those small moments worth living for (a poem)

2015/08/15 — Leave a comment

An afternoon at the library a couple of days ago.
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged appreciation, August 2015, color, page, poem, poetry, shapes. Bookmark the permalink.

Carolyn (a poem)

2015/08/13 — Leave a comment

Based on spam.
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2015, Carolyn, daydream, fondness, love, pilule, poem, poetry, spam, words. Bookmark the permalink.

The gardens (a poem)

2015/08/13 — Leave a comment

First new poem after a five-day break from writing.
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2015, breeze, conversation, gardens, laughter, old brick building, poem, poetry, shadows. Bookmark the permalink.

Ninety degrees (revised) (a poem)

2015/08/10 — Leave a comment

Still not completely satisfied with this, but I think I have improved it somewhat…
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This entry was posted in Life, Lists, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged associations, August 2015, cliché, geometry, heat, ninety degrees, poem, poetry, revision. Bookmark the permalink.

Human nature (2015 edition) (a poem)

2015/08/10 — Leave a comment

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, but I am posting it today, since I took a break this weekend from writing.

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged arguments, August 2015, debate, disagreement, discourse, discussion, poem, poetry, tactics. Bookmark the permalink.

A poem from 1992

2015/08/07 — 5 Comments

I did not write anything yesterday; today is still up for grabs. Meanwhile, I re-discovered a couple (okay, four) poems I wrote in 1992, while I was still living in Tokyo. This particular poem would appear to be concerned with the subway.

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged 1992, August 2015, Japan, observations, People, poem, poetry, subway, Tokyo. Bookmark the permalink.

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