Michael Allyn Wells

Tuesday evening and it's time to head to the confessional for the last time this year.  Join me as I unload what I've been c...

I've not done a slice of my journal post lately so I thought  I'd feature some bits since December 15... 12-15-13 - New...

It's my last Submission Saturday of the year and I will be sending out material but also following the advise of these guys... how ab...

It is in the margins  that the quiet becomes loudest.

It has seemed to me that I probably read more women poets then men. I thought I would explore that possibility by pulling a random sampl...

1953 Your OED birthday word is:  frenemy, n. Meaning: A person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry; a person...

  Sinus issues really suck. I've taken taken my Claritan D. Going to take a book and go read. 

Well, it's been one Holiday Luncheon, 7 more days without Diet Coke, and a new journal refill since my last confession. It's off...

Ha... so true, but the longer I write the thicker my skin gets. 

The page is blank... what are you waiting for?  

A vacation day from my 8 to 5 job and yes, I will be in my home office writing today. Hey, it's my 6 to whatever job...

Another Tuesday has come and is quickly vaporizing before me. Won't you follow me to the confessional? Dear Reader: It's be...

From The Guardian, Eyewitness Aerial Copious triumph overhead the conquest of sky by sea gulls who blend into the blue gray skie...

Dear Reader: Tuesday has come and that means it's confession time. So if you'll join me, I'm off to the confessional. It&#...

These are a few lines that I came in contact with this week that could have come from poems or interviews, articles, etc. - but in each ca...

I'm cheating here a bit - It's been a week and two days since my last confession so I'm combining my Confession Tuesday with M...

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”  ~ Orhan Pamuk

Dear Readers: It's been one week, a week of blowing leaves, naked trees, feeling tired and losing my head all since my last c...

The Letter The nights are cold without you. The days much too long. Distance is measured by lustful thoughts- I cannot help. I ...

For a while I thought I might be coming at the matter of government surveillance from a different perspective then a lot of people. I read...

 I'm off to the confessional... Dear reader: Two weeks it's been since I was last here. I confess I cannot recall what was ...

Danseuse ajustant sa bretelle, 1895-96, Edgar Degas  The Ballerina's Private Warm Up She feels the constriction  of a coc...

Anne Sexton November 9,1928 - October 4, 1974 All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to  undo it. The hori...

Meeting the morning sun along with a crow that can be distinctly heard from my office. I don't know if he is celebrating the new day o...

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blos...

Resurrection Reunion 2  - Sir Stanley Spencer Resurrection Dance They shake out bugs the webs the claustrophobia th...

Think of it as a Kick-Starter. The dynamic writing duo of Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano have created a tool that that can pri...

Dear Reader: It’s been 8 days, two rejection letters, a flat tire and a novel finished reading since my last confession. I’m cranking this...

le Jardin, 1962, by Max Ernst  Cartographers Woman He is one given to meticulous detail, appreciates boundaries, and topogr...

Dear Reader... It's been one rejection, one home office reclamation and a week since my last confession. This morning I stopped fo...

The past few weeks I have been in the process of reclaiming my office.  This was vacated when my daughter Meghan and her husband Brandon c...

Dear Readers: It's been a week since my last confession. I've impressed myself that I'm here on time. This past week I stepp...

Dog by scavangercat808     My Parallel Universe another world out there framed in my view—   a world of ruckus fast ...

Tuesday has come... Hey, I'm on time!  It's been a long day so Let's head to the confessional. Dear Reader: It's been a ...

  Photo credit crilleb50     RUMINATION   The ticking- the constant ever after ticking. I sit for this I sit for that ...

Yes, it's Wednesday and I acknowledge, even confess if you will, that I missed the appropriate day for confession Tuesday. Let's get...

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~Ingrid Bergman

I'm going to take a little time and a little space here to veer a bit from poetry. I owe this juncture to the likes of Representative Jo...

anticipation contains an element of doubt they agreed not to shake hands agreement is good - right? some will always want failure act...

Dear Reader: It's been 3,657 coughs (more or less) one dysfunctional DVR, another child out of the nest, 2 1/2 boxes of Kleenex, one M...

Thursday and Friday were especially grueling days at work. As a result I was so looking froward to the weekend to relax and recharge my ba...

Tuesday night... It's time to confess again and it's getting late so let's head to the confessional. Dear Readers: It's...