Who isn’t In this one? Watch til the end credits…
Orionids
Orionids
The newscast reports it’s the
last few shreds of Halley’s Comet
skimming by us out of Orion,
but the earthbound poet
couldn’t care less if it’s really
Halley’s last gasp or if it’s some
micro-cosmic fecal matter, flushed
decades or lightyears ago, or
even if it’s just a bunch of
hopped-up hippies up on the
hill playing with sparklers.
All the ink-headed haikuist
really cares about is whether
the flashes will last, how long
the flashes will last, how long
before the last flash flashes,
and does he have to go home
once the comet dust settles,
the final flash is finished,
and the last sparkle sparks.
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Slightly Revised For
Poets And Storytellers United
~ Writers’ Pantry #77 ~
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Six Word Saturday
Best Three Decades I’ve Ever Had *
Happy Meet-aversary!!
Thank You Very Much, Dr. Stanley!
The Numbers, Quickly:
30 Years (including leaps) = 10,958 Days
10,958 days = 262,992 Hours
*Best Quarter-Millions Hours Of My Life
Drawing The Blank
Drawing The Blank
sunslant coffeemug
morning midweek
traction insufficiency
empty pages waiting
again again
way too morning
tickticktickticktick
clickety clickety
miasma backspace
push button nothing
morning again
again againagain
blankety blankety
click click click
nothing
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Poets And Storytellers United
Weekly Scribble #76
~ Blank City ~
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like fingerprints
they started over
walked away, feeling alone
—but not like before—
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Tuesday’s Twiglet
Twiglet #233
~ like fingerprints ~
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The Count
I haven’t taken inventory in a while, but it’s Sunday, it’s hot as Hell, and I’m bored, so I did some counting. Please excuse this ego-maniacal sharing…
In addition to Fallen Away (my chapbook published by Finishing Line Press in 2018), I’ve amassed 224 published pieces of poetry and short prose (fiction and CNF) as follows:
>> Works (sometimes multiple pieces) in the following (81) Journals/Reviews/Magazines:
A Story In 100 Words; 50-Word Stories; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; Able Muse; Amygdala; And / Or; Apparatus Magazine; Blue Skirt Productions; Bohemia; Canary; Clapboard House; Coffin Bell; Comstock Review; Conspire; Constellate Literary Journal; Country Mouse; Curio Poetry; Deep Water Literary Journal; detritus; Drabble; Edgz; Egg Poetry; Eleventh Transmission/WIX; Ephemeral Elegies; Eunoia Review; Every Day Poets; Everyday Genius; Failed Haiku; Fewer Than 500; Four and Twenty; Fourteen Magazine; Front Porch Review; Haiku Journal; HALIBUT; Here Comes Everyone; Higginsville Reader; High Coup Journal; Idea Museum; In Between Hangovers; JENNY; litbomb; Local Nomad; Lynx Eye; Maelstrom; Medical Literary Messenger; Mi Po Print; Montana Mouthful; Months To Years; Moondance; New Works Review; Northern Cardinal Review; One Person’s Trash; One Sentence Poems; Pine Island Journal; Plum Tree Tavern; Poems Niederngasse; Poetry Breakfast; Poetry Super Highway; Potato Soup Journal; Prometheus Dreaming; Raintown Review; Red River Review; Red Wolf Journal; right hand pointing; Rusty Truck; Six Sentences; Star 82 Review; Stirring: A Literary Collection; Tanka Journal; The Cabinet Of Heed; The Drabble; The Linnet’s Wings; The Rapid Eye; The Orange Room Review; The Writers’ Café Magazine; The Writer’s Hood; Tiny Molecules; Troubadour 21; Untitled With Passengers; Up The River; Wordland; World Haiku Review; Your One Phone Call
>> And works in the following (28) Anthologies:
…100 Lives (Pure Slush Books, 2020)
…300K – A Poetry Anthology About The Human Race (Beakful Press, 2018)
…Anthology of New England Writers XV (New England Writers, 2003)
…Anthology of New England Writers XVI (New England Writers, 2004)
…Anthology of New England Writers XX (New England Writers, 2008)
…Borrowed Poems (Red Wolf Journal, 2019)
…Coffee Poems-reflections on life with coffee (World Enough Writers, 2019)
…Dreamscapes (Cherry-House Press, 2019)
…Ekphrastia Gone Wild (Ain’t Got No Press, 2013)
…Greek Fire (Lost Tower Publications, 2015)
…Night Terrors and Daymares Vol. 1 (Blood Puddles, 2018)
…Objects in the Rear View Mirror (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2015)
…Of Burgers & Barrooms (Main Street Rag Press, 2017)
…Pinesong (Award Winners / NC Poetry Society, 2020)
…Read Write Poems (NaPoWriMo Anthology, 2010)
…See Into The Dark (Slim Volume #4) (Pankhearst Press, 2018)
….Seven Deadly Sins / Volume 1 / Lust (Pure Slush Books, 2018)
…Seven Deadly Sins / Volume 2 / Gluttony (Pure Slush Books, 2018)
…Seven Deadly Sins / Volume 3 / Greed (Pure Slush Books, 2018)
…Seven Deadly Sins / Volume 4 / Sloth (Pure Slush Books, 2018)
…Seven Deadly Sins / Volume 5 / Wrath (Pure Slush Books, 2019)
…Seven Deadly Sins / Volume 6 / Envy (Pure Slush Books, 2019)
…Seven Deadly Sins / Volume 7 / Pride (Pure Slush Books, 2019)
…The Beautifullest (Pure Slush Books, 2020)
…The Best Of Every Day Poets (I) (Every Day Publishing, 2010)
…The Liberal Media Made Me Do It (Lummox Press, 2014)
…True Love (Red Wolf Editions, 2020)
…Verdant (Truth Serum Press, 2020)
And (Ahem) the following Prize-Winners:
…Laureates’ Choice Award / Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest / 2018
…Joanna Catherine Scott Award (Honorable Mention) NCPS / 2020
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And, If you’re bored too, you can READ THEM ALL HERE
Ron. in (in parentheses)
I received word last night from Editor Phillipe Chatelain that my poem, Preparation, has been selected for inclusion in the upcoming Summer Issue of In Parentheses (Volume 7 Issue 1).
The theme of the upcoming issue is Green, and it’s slated for publication on July 15th.
They’ve just announced the selection of Cover Artist Igor Aquino’s work entitled “Semana de Moda”…
The Issue will be available in both Print and Digital Formats through Mag Cloud. You can find previous issues HERE.
I’ll be back with a reminder soon.
Meanwhile…JOYDANCE!!!
Afterparty
I have to thank Stephen W. Buchanan for introducing me to the Ha’sonnet Form. He says: “Ha’sonnets are roughly half of an Elizabethan style sonnet, and follow some of those sonnet rules in how they are created. They consist of seven lines of four syllables each. The first four lines set up the poem like the first two stanzas of a sonnet. The fifth and sixth line contain a little turn, or volta, preferably unexpected, like the third stanza of a sonnet. And the seventh line a resolution, like the final couplet of a sonnet…Rhyme are optional, but if used the suggested end-rhyme scheme is: a b a b c c dd with the seventh line (dd) rhyming on the second and fourth syllable”
Mr. B’s blog is loaded with some really cool samples for inspiration, You should check it out.
So… I thought I might give it a go.
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Afterparty
We close our eyes
Sunday at dawn;
the sun might rise
but drapes stay drawn.
We’ve had our fun;
the party’s done.
We mourn the morn.
Neversix (A Sevenling)
Neversix (A Sevenling)
The gate stood open.
He stood beside it, counting.
He couldn’t stand the boredom.
He could only count to five
over and over and over
before dozing off.
Even accountants can’t shepherd.
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Not familiar with the Sevenling form? You can read all about it HERE.
Fair Warning: Addictive
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RDP Friday – Six
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Missing Montgomery’s
Missing Montgomery’s
He used to be one of those guys: one of
those window-sitters down at Monty’s
three or four times a week, sipping on
an ice cold Oo-La-Long Peach Tea and
tapping on his keyboard, capturing visions
of the sidewalk traffic just beyond the glass;
sitting with his fellow quiche-eaters,
munching away and trying to decide
between their laptops and their phones.
But he’d also been one of those other guys;
one of those cursive journal keepers,
stroking his beard between penstrokes;
one of those ink-on-the-page quiche munchers,
intent upon bringing the sidewalk inside
and pretending that he lived where he sat;
that everything existed only to amuse him;
that everything existed solely to provide
a satisfying and liquid-inky subject matter.
Today he wakes up despondent, unable
to visit his favored café, uncertain
if he even wants to get out of bed.
Later he finds himself, pen in hand,
immersed in ink, safe at home, dreaming
of endless tea and quiche, and wondering
what kind of writer he thinks he is.
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Open Link Night
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