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Thursday, August 02, 2012

Playing in what rain they could find



This morning the ground was wet with fresh rain, I caught sight of  geese across the street on the ball diamond.  The rain would soon disappear into oven baked ground. I would depart for work, and the geese I suppose they lollygagged about for a while and left.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Sign of the Times



Love this sign... it has gotten a lot of laughs around the courthouse. I realize these are tough times but forcing your car to get a job to make ends meet is taking things to a new level.

Monday, February 20, 2012

A few gems from Tom Leonard ‘100 Differences Between Poetry and Prose’

among my favorite:
·       poetry is the subliminal history of linguistic shape
·       poetry has four wheels, two wings and a pair of false teeth
·       whoever heard of war & peace having the line as a unit of semantic yield
·       the square root of poetry is an ever-evolving quark
·       poetry is all the juicy bits in the juiciest order
·       you can talk about prose without mentioning school

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Little Butt Crack Showing...

I couldn't resist this. A picture I shot a while back with cell phone mid-day as I stretched my legs over lunch hour. Some days I actually have a humorous streak.



Sunday, July 17, 2011

In an Age of Information Overload or...

Things I learned yesterday...

  • You don't have to get Crabs if you eat at Joe's Crab Shack
  • Kansas City made the 40 Worst Dressed Cities List coming in at #37
  • Price Chopper on 291 has  watermellon slightly smaller the a football for $7 - making their filet mignon appear to be a steal
  • If your dog keeps burping just after he ate his food might soon be found on the floor
  • If given a choice between two things, a kid will make the "non-adult" choice
  • Patience pays dividends
  • You cannot write your way out of being alone

Monday, May 09, 2011

Hungry Baby

The hungry baby pictured to the right is a baby robin nesting upon the light fixture between our two garage doors. I've been watching the mother for over a week now but this us the first time I've seen the baby. Mom has been especially tolerant of our coming and going in the car and other movement out front - though she draws the line with the garage doors themselves.

It seems we've had a bumper crop of birds this spring. Wrens, sparrows, robins, blackbirds.  Over the winter months there were both cardinals and blue jays. I'm fascinated with birds.  While I've used them on occasion in poems I've written, I don't recall going overboard with them in my writing or particularly writing specifically about them other the the geese that frequent our neighborhood during two periods each year.

It's a warn sunny day today, I have the day off work due to the birthday of Harry S Truman. I've been tackling a number of things today which fits right along with Kelli Agodon's post today. I loved it when Kelli fields questions from her readers. This post is titled: How DO You Get So Much Done?
Check it out!

Anyway, I've got more stuff to do, just checking in for now. Likely will post again much later.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

Poets & Feelings



One of my daughters distributed this among all our immediate family. Is she trying to tell me something?

Friday, December 31, 2010

2010 Looking Back

A  Looking back on the year ending ....
  
We said Hello to

  • Health Care Reform
  • Inception
  • Toy Story 3
  • Ipad
  • Chevy Volt
  • Groupons
  • Glee
  • Hot in Cleveland
  • Rand Paul
  • Bailouts
  • John Boehner 
  • Tears
  • Orange skin tone
  • Joe Miller
  • Scott Brown
  • Lady GaGa
  • Katy Perry
  • San Francisco Giants
  • Body Scans
  • Branding (not cattle)
  • Cupcakes
  • Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown - again
  • Redistricting
  • Borrowing from China
  • Tax breaks for the wealthy
  • Bill Clinton - again



We said Goodbye to:

  • Joe Miller
  • Witches
  • Christine O'Donnell
  •  Toyota
  • Texting while driving
  • San Diego Padres
  • Texas Rangers
  • Sheen in the Gulf
  • Crashing State Dinners
  • Tom Delay
  • Jobs
  • Failed Banks
  • Privacy
  • Trading Chickens for Health Care
  • Census
  • Immigration reform
  • Swine Flu
  • BP
  • Hallaburton by any name
  • Dick Cheney
  • Don't ask don't tell
A Few People Who Passed On in 2010

  • Barbara Billingsly
  • Art Linkletter
  • Tony Curtis
  • Eddie Fisher
  • George Steinbrenner
  • J.D. Salanger
  • Joan Southerlans
  • Edward M. Kennedy
  • John Forsythe
  • Lech Kaczynski
  • Lynn Redgrave
  • Lena Horne
  • Peter Graves
  • Tom Bosley
  • TeddyPendergrass
  • Bella Akhmadulina
  • Robert Dana
  • Andrei Voznesensky
  • Robert Byrd
  • Lucille Clifton





    Your List? - Who and What did I miss?


Saturday, July 17, 2010

Oh Really...




 

I write like
Ursula K. Le Guin
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!


 


 



By the way....

using other poems I've written I had various other results including:

  • JAMES JOYCE
  • J.K. ROWLING
  • DAN BROWN
  • DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
  • VLADIMIR NABOKOV




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Saturday, March 27, 2010

You Go Chester Stranczek!

There are so many funny signs to choose from, but you've got to love this one.  I for one am always opposed to villages making excetions.

Monday, July 06, 2009

Dad in the Dog House

Some interesting things coming forth on the page today.   I'm happy actually with last two days of writing.

My youngest daughter us a cyclist. She loves the Tour de France.  Once again she has engaged me in a fantasy racing team battle.  I'm not in good graces with her as of today.  I've beat her in points so far for three out of three stages. Her text messages are growing terse.

Love ya honey!  :)

Monday, February 02, 2009

Word Clouds from four of my poems selected at random


Wordle: From My Recent Poetry




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This was produced on Wordie. I found it via Christine Klocek-Lim's site. I put four of my poems selected at random and dropped them into the gadget for generating “word clouds” from text. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.


Pretty cool.



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Thursday, December 04, 2008

The Smart Set: Wedding Bells? - November 10, 2008

 

Ask a Poet
Wedding Bells?
Advice and insight from a professional poet.

By Kristen Hoggatt

I am a poet currently in graduate school. I just finished a sestina. Do I owe Dana Gioia any royalties?
— A.K., Lincoln, Nebraska

The Smart Set: Wedding Bells? - November 10, 2008

When I ran across this recently I just cracked up.  Go check out the whole thing.  Especially if you need a laugh.

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Political Poetry


Just in time for the election a new version of the Magnetic Poetry Kit lets you add a bit of political rhetoric to your verse. It comes with 200 nonpartisan words, but you can change that!

The kit has a suggested retail price of $9.95

Friday, August 01, 2008

You May Be A Closet Poet If...

Be careful those of you besmirching poets... some of you may be closet poets yourself.

You could be a closet poet:

  • If you use a circle to dot your i
  • If when sitting erect your head lobs slightly to it's right
  • If you suddenly stop your sentences before the end of a line and continue on the line below
  • If you personify your ball glove or other objects you hold near and dear to you
  • If things that befuddle others makes perfect sense to you
  • If the absence of punctuation can be found at times in what you write
  • If you write words or sentences in disjointed cursive letters
  • If you've ever found yourself sitting in a dark closet alone and enjoyed it
  • If you secretly wish to be called by the name Wadsworth, Emily, ee, Sylvia or Pablo

Michael A. Wells © 2008

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Therapy on the page

What do Latinos, poetry and therapists all have in common? They are all a part of Daniel Cubias' latest blog post on The Huffington Post. It's pretty funny.

It's said that one can observe Rumi poetry in many of Elham Moaidnia's paintings. Here is an article about her exhibition in Dubai as well as a look at the work of this Iranian born artist at her own web site.


"Poetry tries to bridge abyss lying between the name and the thing. That language is a problem is no news to poets." ~ Charles Semic