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Monday, June 16, 2008

So, Naut, did you have tasty fresh lobster on your holiday?

LOBSTERS ON PARADE Across the abyssal plain, in waters weighted with the entire ocean and as utterly black as night can be, lit only by the thrashing sparking flaring of creatures bizarre by any notion of ourselves, the lubberly kind... Across these heavy deeps in measured tread of little feet crustacean, they march, determined in their quest with thoughts in mind, if there is any thinking, of dancing fandangos in slow motion with lady lobsters, fair and fine... Across the rippling sands the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Herding Cats And Puppy shots

This little border collie pup does not yet believe that it can't be done. In fact, if anyone can do it, he can! Just ask him! Davy fiercely confronts my four grown cats, who sit and stare at his antics, and occasionally swear under their breath at him. He--our Dauntless Davy-- is not discouraged! Our Urgo actually gets most engaged, I suspect because he is used to being the Prince, and suddenly here is a new Cute Little Fellow. Well, Urgo is not so very cute since he has grown to be the biggest... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Remembering... with love

It is time... A year ago, my dad went into the hospital for heart surgeries. There were complications, and the day after Father's Day, the life support was shut down, and he was allowed to go. He was 85. For most of the 55 years I knew him, we did not play well together. The decision was my own, to avoid, as much as it may have been his to keep his own distance. But after a series of other partings, thoughts and realizations coalesced in this poem, and I finally took the lesson to heart: I took... Sign in to see full entry.

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Both epyllion and ... that other thing...

the one about taking a piece of art to the poetic place... The painting was a modern thing with broad swaths of dark reds and falling wings... A figure, losing the heavens... Maybe someone else recalls such a thing by artist and title? Icarus in the Sky Icarus, Icarus, foolish lad! It's the worst idea you've ever had and there were others I thought were bad! To soar to the stars, you demented bird, takes more than wax wings, or hadn't you heard? My lad, you have flown to the height of absurd!... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Blogging For Dollars

I wrote this piece for my myspace blog, and thought you might find it of interest here: Blogging for Dollars Category: Blogging Are you looking for places to offer your writing in the hope of getting paid for it? Blogit http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/ is a fee site for writers of all sorts of content, even the naughty stuff, if you like. There is a strong social component, if you want to get caught up in it--you may well meet some minds and spirits that resonate with yours, find discussions of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Poetry on a classical theme...

some time back I had occasion to research the Gorgon, Medusa--was amazed and inspired by what I found! MEDUSA O maid, you once were lovely, full of grace, and named for Wisdom in eternal female form-- Metis, Maat, Medha the names you bore... But the passing generations, reshaping and restructuring the norm, made you over as a thing to fear, no longer Maid, but monstrous with a deadly, stony gaze; Men made you cruel and cold and perilous to life in latter days, forgetting that the peril in your... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

There was a cobalt blue octopus in this dream...

but it didn't find its way into the poem. The part that did, though, really did come from a dream so vivid I had to write it out as soon as I woke up. THE WRECK OF THE FAERY GALLEON A sailor stands on a quiet deck in the still of a peaceful night-- He suddenly sees, like a cobweb-dream, a galleon of faery-light, riggings of gossamer, translucent and pale, looming up high to port. Silently sailing, as if quite alone, as if no more solid than thought: wonder and marvel, afloat on a sea as smooth... Sign in to see full entry.

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Remember the Sidebar!

I haven't paid much attention to the sidebar in quite a long time, and realized a little time back that my People list didn't even begin to reflect the folk I read here. So I have been updating it. It is not complete yet by any means. There is no sense at all to the order in which names appear on it-- My Favorite blogs are due for update too. Maybe the whole blogscene needs some redecorating... I promise, no light blue writing on white backgrounds... No purple letters against jolly orange... Sign in to see full entry.

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Movies Day With Charlie!

When he is home from school for a couple of weeks, Charlie and I have started a new tradition: going to the movies we've been wanting to see. All of them. On the same day. Yesterday we started with KungFu Panda for breakfast. Cute and funny, not a disappointment at all. For lunch, we messed with the Zohan-- this one will not ever be called 'too PC,' I think... Possibly not a good first-date movie. For dinner, the new Narnia movie, Prince Caspian which was colorful and big and exotic with some... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Check it out! I just published an article!

www.associatedcontent.com/article/802763/hit_the_highway_grandma.html It's for a contest on Associated Content--had one day to write and submit on the topic of anything of personal interest or expertise, with the theme of how this topic will be relevant a year from now. I wrote about a trend I've seen on the road, of mature single women choosing a highway-centered lifestyle. I'd copy it here, but not sure the contest allows that. Anyway, it's another pennies per view thing, so please do take a... Sign in to see full entry.

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