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Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...

Crossroads At the Waters Edge

...I sit by the edge of an ocean of sighs
Its vast eternal blue watershed speaks rhymes
Deepening my gaze with poetic eyes
As hope forms it's horizon to redefine
The tragedy I find 

Along the wat...

Groundhog Day 2022 Or Forty Two Days Since 2021 Winter Solstice Part One

...Already noticeably marked
increase in daylight
yours truly courtesy affected
qua heliotropic phenomenon
finds me noggin gently being tugged
upward and westward ho toward sun
after dark mine tal...

Far Away Moments

...Far Away Moments

Face up. Flat and still.
Crisp black and white images
revive my memories, grayed somehow.
Living.   Smiles.     Tears.    
Souls captured.  Time cheated.
Hearts held in my ha...

Anomalous Poetic Contrivance Evokes

...Anomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum

(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming, 
née devolving i...

The Impossible Fairy

...She awoke with such urgency that eyes popped open;
Her meager frame had hushed in the stillness.
Her vast eyes fixed on something only her imagination,
Her inspiration and curiosity could truly be...

Sammi - An Acrostic

...Sammi is a delicate blossom frolicking in gayest blooms,
Analogous to a fragile rose amidst world’s boring dooms; 
Manifold lusters issue forth from her magnanimous heart,
Manifesting the rare gla...

Life

...We are wisps in this cosmos,
The flimsy bubbles,
The clumsy issues'
In this decay, this cosmic swamp.
We are the degassing 
Of a dying celestial being's bowels,
The place where is-life churns a...

Teaching Power

...Teaching can feel depressingly predative
to younger minds
preferring to not evaporate while preyed upon.

Mentoring can feel more hopefully symbiotic
with younger,
fresher,
less domesticated m...

Together, Sequel To Heart

...I'm not one to look for signs, so quite surprised was I
This morning when I stepped outside, eyes lifted to the sky
This cloud was formed by God's own hand, Peace floods over me
Soon as I had seen...

I Am My Rose's Thorn

...How dare he!!!
He is beholding her beauty....
my most treasured
and precious loved one,
in his eye!
I see his desire for her
oozing forth like volcanic lava!
Go away!...GO AWAY!!!
It is my re...

Racing Issues

...Why are we the human race
rather than another extinguishing species?
Why not the human species
and not the cockroach race?
Why is human nature
intended as somehow supremely natural
not within b...

Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 2

...Wake! and see the extent to which you’re still enslaved
        enslaved by your own kind who hanker after conditioning platitudes
        the clubby comfort of secretly oath-taking power cliques
   ...

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