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Poetry at the Pennsylvania Capitol
You won’t hear much from me here on the Dad Poet until after Thursday. There is just too much to do between now and then. Five poets will be converging on the Pennsylvania state capitol, and I am honored to be one of the five. The news I alluded to earlier this week is that…
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Silly Star Poem at PUP for my Son the Monkey
You might have noticed that the Monkey Prodigy has been doing more and more videos lately, including some pretty fun poems. So I tried to read this one in his style. So often when the family is enjoying a day together Micah finds a pen and paper to write down some of the crazy things…
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Unhappy Wedding, PUP and Personality
Warning, this may be one of those “Ends and Odds” posts of mine which are all over the map. Sort of just taking a fatherly, intellectual, spiritual, poetic dump. Um, yeah. I would bet that somewhere there is a blogging tutorial which instructs writers to never begin a post with a warning and apology, and…
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Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Poetry, Prose and Mental Health
Why, in this day and age do mental health issues still carry a stigma? We know so much more now about the physiological workings of the brain and the environmental causes of stress that I find it astounding how uncomfortable people can be talking about it. We talk readily about our aches and pains, our…
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Of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
The other day I was reading the blog of a fellow citizen of Penn’s Woods, Walt Franklin of Rivertop Rambles. I’m not a fly fisherman, but watching those guys on slate run years ago, taking a break from hiking the Black Forest trail, well, there was something Zen or maybe Taoist about it, how they…
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Little Ways, Stafford, Wisdom and Poetry
So this poem, some might argue, goes against one of my carnal rules of poetry; don’t be teachy, or preachy. I honestly hate most philosophical poems, generally because they come off as either arrogant, or soulless and impersonal, and often all of the above. Other poems, in an effort to teach a lesson can turn…
