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Mister Sniffy
In the grey light before sunrise you examine the yard and driveway: sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff Snort! sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff Snort! The new light catches the focus in your eyes, much as it might catch the focus … Continue reading
Posted in animals, Dog, family, Friendship, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged dogs, humor, outdoors, poem, poetry, writing
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Haiku: Relativity?
Consciousness, a gift of accelerating time, provides no answers.
Posted in Absolutes, Aging, Brain, Consciousness, Einstein, Humans, Poem, rite-of-passage, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Tagged Haiku, humor, imagination, life, nature, relativity
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Haiku: Comfortably Close
Little squirrel chirps six feet from my smiling face: half-hearted scolding. (pinterest.com)
Posted in animals, Friendship, Haiku, Life, Poem, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged animals, interspecies communication, life, squirrel
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Make it stop
It was sometime right around when Donald Trump talked about how certain people were asking for moments of silence for the Dallas shooter (a lie, of course). It was after Orlando and Philando Castil… Source: Make it stop
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Sometimes Later
Sometimes I am a smoker and a drunk Sometimes I’m not and engage with the world Sometimes whirling and curling I accept all animals as equals Sometimes that is my only hope to accept my own species Lately the arrogance … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, future, Humans, Poem
Tagged animals, arrogance, humanity, nature
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Between Takes in Heaven West
Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels rest by the Rio Grande, sharing sushi under a sky of forever blue. Scout and Silver graze nearby. To the south, a tumble of clouds builds over Mexico, rumpled shadows running across the far mesas. … Continue reading
Posted in Absurd fantasy, American Indian, Dream, humor, Poem, Uncategorized
Tagged absurd, absurd humor, magic, outdoors
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Strawberry or Honey?
Strawberry moon looked more like honey, so I’ll go with that today. (top: al.com; bottom: wsj.com)
Posted in American Indian, Beach, Gratitude, Haiku, Moon, Uncategorized
Tagged outdoors, poem
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Haiku–Ping Pong
Left right left right left my brain trading back and forth quick entertainment (top: adsoftheworld.com; bottom: preptalk.hermits.com)
Posted in Brain, Haiku, left brain, Poem, right brain
Tagged brain, hemispheres, poem
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Haiku–Red and Green
Bleeding from twenty small cuts on my arms and legs; yard work has a price. (www.osoti.net)
Haiku–Liminal
Here: too warm for Spring, not hot enough for Summer– a nameless season. (figtreepress.co.uk/liminal.htm)
Posted in Consciousness, Gratitude, Haiku, Poem, Summer
Tagged dreaming, imagination, life, nature, seasons
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Narble Furt Lives 