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A diversion written as I wondered about the...

This is a project that I've been working on for...

This one speaks for itself.

A little humorous poem from the chauvinist and...

Some recent readings on the progress of...

Birds are feeding heavily now as they ready for...

Some ruminations on olden times. Comments...

Observations on a sunset. Written after...

Some of the usual things are really amazing.

This past winter we spent some time in the...

Images from a recent poem from Sara Basrai...

Another experiment. Comments welcome.

A trek to the store after a snowstorm....

A little observational experiment in mixing...

A poem I started a couple years ago and finally...

Got tired of how political operatives make...

Free verse impressions of a good day.

Signs of Spring are everywhere. And when that...

Sometimes the forecast is wrong, but not this...

The function of memory and how it rises and...

Quite a number of years ago I learned that some...

Just a little something I thought of as I...

Forgetting that humans have a place in the...

A minimalist attempt.

Lots of really fine serious poetry on the site...

A traditional theme I suppose. Comments welcome.

An addition to the Nature Series inspired by a...

Comments welcome.

The problems with creation.

Hopefully humorous poem on aging.

Some words written down is some sort of order....

Nature Chaiku, bugs, heat

This is an older poem that I finally wrangled...

While considering things spiritual I looked up...

This all transpired more than a year ago. This...

A tribute poem to a real poet.

One for the herpetologist and one for the...

A conversation with some men from a logging...

Two score and ten years ago I was reading the...

A small experience in a semi-wild place....

A few years ago my wife and I were looking for...

A Compulsion Obeyed.

A minimal poem for the season. No rhymes, very...

Two poems written recently while up in the...

Hunting has long been a part of the American...

Chaiku entry.

Chaiku competition revised and re-submitted.

Chaiku competition revised and re-submitted.

Water, we all need it. Part of Nature's cycles.

Nature near us, chaiku

A few weeks back I noticed that the playgrounds...

In the far Northern part of New York and also...

Odin Roark has written many poems about his...

Went shopping a few days ago and got some...

A brief free verse look at today.

overcoming a block

Been re-reading some of my favorites,...

Nighttime observation, August 2009

Fooling around with seemingly related words can...

An observation after a recent visit. Although...

With special thanks to Sara B. for the last...

Seems like I'm exploring some memories lately...

Early this morning, before the anger set in,...

A really big rock in a field. Something...

Inspired by my favorite type of music. Does the...

Don't know where this came from. It felt like...

A summer hike, a quick retreat.

daily life can be a philosophical journey

Had a brief conversation with a hotel employee...

thoughts about writing.

A question for the ages.

A January weather event inspired this one....

part of a series of Nature poems

another entry in a series of Nature poems.

Inpiration came from a visit to an an abandoned...

A small tribute to TNBW. Comments welcome.

In memory of R. V. a family man first.

An observation on a fall day.

Finding Nature in all its rawness in unlikely...

Those looking for a sarcastic or critical poem...

Inspired by some friends in the music business...

A little natural world occurrence observed and...

For my favorite nature photographer.

Inspired by an overheard conversation.

Who would have believed that an almost one year...

Dreams seem to be standard poetic material....

For all its wonders Modern Medicine still...

Self-explanatory

This one has been reworked a couple times and...

A storm blew for a couple days. Some impressions.

Had an interesting encounter with a fellow at...

Just for fun.

Free verse nature poem, outside my nature...

A little something for my dear wife.

Lyon Mountain, Northeast Adirondacks, New York

A little introspection. Written a while back...

Some memories seem to fly into consciousness on...

Memories, really old ones.

This happened this past summer and, according...

A recent article in a magazine, an idea from...

Another in the Nature Series which will soon be...

Back to the woods with this one. Comments...

Some reasons to stop driving so much.

Why do dreams have such power?

Nearly finished with this series. This one is...

A pre-TNBW, many times re-worked, poem....

On writing poetry. Comments welcome.

I wrote this a while back but was reminded of...

I was cleaning out my notebooks from this past...

Heard some beautiful a capella singing in the...

Comments welcome.

Inspired by a comment on one of the site...

A couple of deer, some moonlight. Things get...

How some things get tossed away.

Prompted by an essay I read some time ago....

Poets and sex. A less than fruitful union.

Francis of Assisi, simple, complex, real.

I was standing and looking at the way the grass...

I've been terribly inactive on the site for...

I started this small poem last summer but...

Visiting the D.C. area this past weekend we...

Good fortune is a fragile thing. Comments...

My feeble effort - one for the calendar, one...

I had been thinking about this place I found in...

Lot's of driving lately so it seemed like a...

Something of a sestet, sort of. On writing....

A Haiku, or two, and something else entirely.

Several recent posts on the site have dealt in...

Doing a little carpentry this weekend....

A few warm days brought about these...

Here in our town the NASCAR folks are rolling...

Found an old textbook, History of Modern...

This is a purging, a catharsis that I needed to...

A little lightness to start the week. Comments...

Clearing my head of cliches by passing them all...

This arrived during a winter walk in the...

Stuck in memoir mode at the moment. Be...

She's been around for quite some time but I, in...

I swear, this is the last memoir type poem for...

Everyone loves Spring. Some more than others....

A little stream of consciousness poem for...

Another springtime poem. Comments welcome.

Comments welcome.

For all you city dwellers "peepers" is a...

Some observations on this breezy Spring day....

This little poem has been percolating in one...

One of those small events that made a large...

Observation on an April morning. An exercise...

A commentary on reading poetry and criticism of...

A passel of poems are percolating, partially...

On a warm day not long ago I was fortunate...

Thirty plus years ago I worked a short time for...

Some have been calling these things prosetry...

I recently came across in a large collection...

What happens when we see something written in a...

A little nature poem left over from last year...

I'm not really happy with this as it feels...

An observation on how a not so hot real time in...

I've had this one knocking around for a year or...

A few years ago I received a lovely edition of...

Some recent reading here on the site and in a...

A whimsical look at the nature of time....

I saw a sketch at a local sidewalk art sale...

This is probably more cynical than it needs to...

This one has existed in several versions, none...

one from the notebook, only a couple years old....

Here's one for the Easter season. In a way....

An effort to escape the writing doldrums....

Self explanatory I suppose. Most today would...

This poem was built, over a two month period,...

Putting honesty in what we write is probably...

A little return to a natural subject. Comments...

Thanks to Mr. Harold Bloom poetry critic and...

See the little paragraph at the start of the...

Two little poems inspired by recent days away...

The utility of some man made objects is really...

In a coffee shop a while back I overheard bits...

This is another in a series of "coming of age"...

A while back I took my mother up to her Golden...

A late evening walk last fall prompted some...

Cutting back the vegetation on a river bank is...

Please read the intro to this in the body of...

A gentle (I hope) really bad poem with a...

Writing on writing. Our narcissism knows no...

A couple weeks ago I ran into an old friend, a...

On a recent morning I was sitting near the...

Early this year I heard a news report on CNN...

Not sure it works, these things rarely do for...

It's an old story. Comments welcome.

Sometimes a whole lot of hard work doesn't pay...

In the long traditions of poetry rain has been...

Something I noticed about birds today.

Sitting in a hospital parking lot a week or so...

If you listen to Phoenix Radio in Victoria,...

Mostly real. Comments welcome, as always.

One from an older notebook, revised after some...

A simple nature poem. Comments welcome.

This little poem is the last in a series of...

Sometimes as a senior citizen I'm questioned or...

Serious again here. A phrase that has been...

A posting on the forums. An inspiration....

Just getting ready to be off the site for ten...

An observation of the season. This will...

This one started last fall and got finished...

A little winter pondering. Comments welcome.

"I read the news today, oh boy" Lennon &...

Most of the time I handle the laundry chores...

On this site there is a serious thinker and...

Reading poetry is part of a poet's job but it...

This poem is part of series I'm working on that...

Cliche's and aphorisms contain their own,...

Some mildly spiritual musing as I thought about...

Another genuine dream inspired poem. For years...

An older, un-posted poem that I reworked a...

This is some advice I wish I had received forty...

This one is a birthday gift (a day late) for a...

A natural observation. Comments always welcome.

A little insomnia isn't all bad. Comments...

A little observation about the nature of one...

Trying to read and understand some modern poets...

In keeping with the trend towards information...

Disposing of trash has become quite a science...

Authors, poets in particular, love to write...

On this site and others there are times when it...

This is something of an exercise I attempted to...

A fine poem by one of the finest and most...

A couple of recent hikes sent me back to Mr. W....

Among the full and part time homeless guys in...

A meditation of sorts. Somewhat of a fusion of...

Some time ago, as I was traveling, I met a...

I read poetry, poetic criticism and biographies...

Years ago taverns up our way served "short...

This piece is made up of four separate poems,...

I've always thought that abstract poetry, like...

Over the past few weeks my poetry reading has...

This is an old poem that is based on an even...

According to actuaries I'm entering the final...

A reflection on places and their differences,...

Something from the notebook, revised and...

A little seasonal observation. Comments welcome.

Some trial and error on the use of format....

The content of this poem is weak. Do you feel...

A few lines inspired by the excellent poetry of...

An allegory? Maybe, but don't ponder it too...

New gadgets in the world of literature are...

First, I apologize for the irregularities of...

Was watching a DVD earlier, a romantic comedy...

In my reading of Irish poets this past week I...

An experiment. Comments welcomed.

I met a lady at a flea market last week who...

My final posting for 2011 as I'll be out of...

In some recent reading I looked into the lives...

This was written some time ago and recent...

Another poem from an old notebook that I...

The holiday this week triggers a memory as it...

Understanding our lives sometimes requires...

This one came from a minor case of writer's...

Almost every winter up in my North Country...

An observation made while on a recent journey....

A discussion about spilling one's emotions in...

There are many reasons for writing poetry....

Two poems, "Dumpstered" by Odin Roark and...

This one went its own way and came from some...

Romantic poetry. Not for the weak of stomach....

Once again contemplating the narcissistic...

Working through some older notebooks and...

Working on some new poems for submission to...

Some recent research on American anti-war...

Seems like everything I do these days has a...

A recent day in NYC prompted these reflections....

This piece was pulled from some line fragments...

This is a poem from my "romantic" period,...

Some words have sounds that are just plain...

Believe it or not this poem came from one small...

Too bad there's not a lost and found department...

While reading a collection of poetry with the...

How do you feel, as a reader, about a poet...

Back from the woods again. This one is part of...

This is an older poem that I wrote when the...

Every year this anniversary looms and seems to...

This was a middle of the night, waking dream...

I succumbed to the Diamante urge (and...

This is a possible entry for the Faulkner...

Having Odin Roark as a regular reader and...

This was an exercise in creating a rhythm of...

This one is very loosely modeled on some of the...

This poem came after I audited a creative...

This little piece has been in the works for a...

Another poem that I've been scratching my head...

Three small poems with a similar theme, written...

I've been in some discussions about...

This poem is based on a dream which was...

This was in the notebook from a couple years...

I had the opening for this poem for many years....

Another poem started on a scrap of paper many...

While exploring the southernmost Delaware shore...

Poet Peter Cooley gave me this idea even. He's...

It's not easy coming up with an appropriate...

Even a hedonist will have an occasional bad...

This poem started with a little rumination as I...

This poem is very recent. It also marks a...

A somewhat abstract poem within a structural...

Recent events. Comments welcome.

After reading some newspaper columns by old...

Another poem inspired by some reading. This...

Whimsy? Perhaps. Comments welcome as always.

I read some poems recently by David Roderick...

Here's one for Flo's pseudo-contest. Comments...

Lately I've been preoccupied with dreams and...

I was having a conversation with a friend who...

I've been doing a little poetry reading around...

Social commentary isn't something I do very...

This is a kind of stream of consciousness poem...

This is another poem I've been putting in and...

In some recent comments on a couple of my poems...

This one was inspired by a line from a novel...

A little lamentation. Comments welcome.

All three of my younger siblings are now in...

Making adjustments in life in 498 words is not...

Two hundred words of something, I guess....

An unemployed man finds a new path to financial...

Revision of the story from a first person point...

English class becomes the highlight of a young...

Just a little bloggy thing, any and all...

A weird story inspired by those tabloids. Just...

self - explanatory

Subsequent events. A happy denouement.

A tall tale inspired by some very real folks I...

Feedback welcome on content, power of the...

This is entirely a work of fiction. As if you...

After being away from the site for a couple of...

I apologize to animal lovers in advance for...

A first person story loosely based on reality....

An idea that I had - possibly for a longer...

From a short story to a poem to a completely...