the recent death of an old friend feels like a wake-up call to me…to use a baseball analogy, it feels like strike two…strike one was my ending up in the hospital a few years back with BP that was 200something over 100something…I’m pretty sure he would appreciate the analogy–he was a baseball fan…in fact, one […]
Friday Fling #273 for Febuary 28th 2014 A few years ago, I think it was, maybe back on MySpace, we had a Fling challenge about the cliche “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” Specifically, it was inspired by part of an old Saturday Night Live sketch in which John […]
This was created for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. Host Bettie asked for writes appropriate for National Polar Bear Day. NB: My apologies if an ad shows up beneath the pic. Apparently it had infected the image before I stored it on Photobucket. OH! THE POLAR BEAR! Oh! The polar bear likes […]
………………………… If you support these wars…….then the real aid to terrorism is provided by you…. and thus you are in no way part of a solution…merely just another facet of the problem. Thank you DL
Thematic Attic Thursday Finds The Attic (Polar) Bear! It’s National Polar Bear Day. Despite what you may have heard from the “Global Warming” crowd, there are more of them than there used to be. Polar bears I mean. But there is no question they are popular. Or that this is the right time of […]
Richie Havens – Here Comes The Sun (live 1971) HQ The Gaian Dragon I Ching Calendar Approach Everything can be accomplished through the correct Approach. Return to your roots. Gather wisdom. Think things out before you start. Bite through to the essential point. Retreat from negative thinking. Dig deep to find the Well. Form a […]
These two poems were created for the CPC’s monthly Pick Apart Poetry challenge. The idea is to pick out 25 words from a featured poem to use to create a new poem. The original poem is by Christopher Marlowe, and is shown at the end here. THE LOVELORN SHEPHERD’S PLEA If thee be my […]
a friend from high school died this morning…he had a stroke a week or so ago…the plan was to move him to a hospice this week…the doctors were giving him “comfort drugs”; they said he might have about 2 weeks left…after having gone our separate ways, and the passing of several years, he and I […]
Welcome to the February 2014 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry as we celebrate the final days of this year’s “Month of Love” with one of the most well-known love poems ever written. Quoted again and again throughout history, Christopher Marlowe wrote this poetic treasure in 1598. The idea of Pick-Apart Poetry is to select 25 words […]
I’m going thru my stuff, trying to reduce the amount of space it occupies in the basement…when my time comes I don’t want the roomie to have a mountain of stuff to deal with…at this point it’s just a large hill…I may be done for today (I worked on it for about two hours) but […]
