Tag: poem
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Years Later
Here’s a poem that was published last June in the Tic Toc anthology along with two other poems of mine, “Recurrents” and “Second Hand,” by Kind of a Hurricane Press. You can order the anthology in print if you’d like, or read it online in the first link. The poem is also out there traveling around…
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Friday Bird Flashback with J.J. Audubon
Well, it was still Friday when I started writing this, so I’m just going to keep going like this is a Friday Flashback. The very writing of this post caused a welcome slow-down in my evening. I’ve been getting back into the woods a bit lately (No pun intended on my recent posts about the…
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Ray Bradbury and Skunk Bear on Pluto
Now that I think of it, that could be a very misleading headline. As far as I know, skunks and bears, or combinations thereof have not been discovered on Pluto. And certainly Ray Bradbury has never been there himself. But hey, there’s a lot of ice! Mountains, snow packs, and yeah, it looks to be…
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight
I’ve been doing a little series of “best-of” posts relating to Fatherhood this week. And I’ll be posting a bit more of an original one this week. But I can’t let Fathers Day pass by without sharing this poem again. I talked with my father tonight and our parting words were the same as they…
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Love Poems You Didn’t Write: Since Feeling is First
So I changed the title. Please feel free to submit a formal complaint to the management. You can consider this the fourth and final installment of the “Love Poems You Wish You Had Written” series for 2015. There is about a half hour left in the day of the man who died to marry people…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #3–Thursday Edition with Carol Ann Duffy
Thanks to Suzie Grogan, alias Keatsbabe, we’ve started again in the memorable tradition of 2013, posting Love Poems You Wish You Had Written. But now it’s Thursday and I just cannot help but adhere to a more recent tradition here on the Dad Poet, the Thursday Love Poem! Now, it’s been a while since our…
