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Musings on a Young Tree
Lean, lean, lean deep Touch the wet ground Bounce, bounce, bounce high Reach for the clouds Lean, Bounce, Dip, Dive Too fast, slow down I hear your sinews groan I see your branches flail Lean, bounce, whoosh, whip Cannot slip … Continue reading
Expand Your Adjective Imagination through Google Images
You ever wonder what an adjective looks like? Well, you may not wonder but you’re certainly aware of adjectives. We use them all the time, except for Hemmingway, he really didn’t like them. Some of them are much easier to … Continue reading
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Tagged adjective, adjectives, Google, Google Image search, images, words
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Musings on the Driveway Cracks
They said they would appear, The cracks that is, Eventually, Inevitably, Not hairline fractures Not superficial scratches But deep cracks, all the way Down to the times of sand That comprise the shifting Moving underlayment. Well come they did, they … Continue reading
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Tagged ants, cracks, driveway, grains, poem, poetry, sands of time, wrinkles
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Musing on a Street Symphony
Rumble, rattle and groan The box cars and the bridge Compose a symphony Sweet reverberations Echoing down the street Canopied by the trees Each box car plays its part Wears anonymous art From city to city A free show on … Continue reading
Musing on the Arhythm of the Falling Rain
Drip, drip, plunk Drip, plunk, plunk Full of junk Full of gunk The eaves are in strife Full of last year’s life Rain’s rhythm is playing Plunking eaves are grating Who will clean the eaves Who will stop this please … Continue reading
Ode to a Young Hop Plant
Seven leaves and two tendrils Brave the fence line teeming with Untamed vines, volunteer trees and Voracious weeds. Beyond all conceivable Reach, the summitted realm of the rusted fence Barren and bitterly cold even in the morning Sun waits for … Continue reading
A Valediction Forbidding Self-Awareness
Waking in the Dark. I awoke and as usual grabbed a pair of black shorts in the dark. No one could see me fumbling around naked in the dark looking for the black shorts. I clumsily put them on and … Continue reading
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Tagged center of attention, indifference, introversion, notice, oblivian, personal growth, physicality, self-awareness, spatial awareness
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Musing on Someone Else’s Feet
Clumped at the bottom of the rusty Sieve, next to the unwashed cleaver, deprived of life affirming Collagen, the declawed chicken feet Linger limply on, the last of their Pungent poultry odor clinging closely by. Reminiscences of chicken soup for … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken feet, chicken soup, cleaver, collagen, gizzard, musing, pebbles, poetry, soul
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Militant Introvert: Your Struggle is not My Struggle
“I know you struggle with your Introversion.” What? Someone said that to me the other day. And I thought hmm, and being a good Introvert I mulled it over for a while to pin down what I thought about that. … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Personality
Tagged behavior, change, discomfort, extrovert, introversion, introvert, militant, society, Susan Cain
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Musing on No Ants
The ants don’t parade through the bathroom this Summer in their annual, persistent passage to the Kitchen Cabinets. Cabinets which have no discernible Draw, no dietary possibilities, no holy grail of Dirt or sugar or anything. Chemicals and pans Reside … Continue reading
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Tagged ants, bathroom floor, expectations, Kitchen Cabinets, poetry, ruts, spice route, summer, travelers
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Fortress of Dissolitude 