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12/08/2025

Pause of Plurality Interchange

62

12/07/2025

Forest and the Storm

47

11/30/2025

29

11/25/2025

59

11/23/2025

Friday Nights, College Days

47

11/20/2025

59

11/19/2025

Get Well Card from a Writers' Group to a Friend in a Physical Rehab Unit

74

11/16/2025

The Stream is a River

78

11/15/2025

Benign Bliss Burn

83

11/09/2025

Eric Clapton's Guitar

59

11/02/2025

My Time, My Sunday Morning Poem

148

10/31/2025

Frankenstein in a Downtown Restaurant

122

10/27/2025

91

10/26/2025

Call for a Rain Poem

82

10/19/2025

Behind the Fence

81

10/14/2025

Sleep Dear Children, Sleep

132

10/12/2025

61

10/05/2025

67

10/05/2025

73

09/28/2025

Waking in a Small Space

97

09/21/2025

Awakens with a Whisper

168

09/18/2025

Our Claim to Fame

91

09/18/2025

56

09/14/2025

104

09/07/2025

121

09/06/2025

538

09/04/2025

851

08/31/2025

The Cat's Story

175

08/24/2025

When I Took the Old Way to Ames

287

08/17/2025

Telling my Friend about the Sky

233

08/10/2025

After Rain, I'm Left with an August Day

184

08/03/2025

Night of the James Taylor Concert during Freshman Year at College

347

07/27/2025

122

07/21/2025

Prior to Intent

170

07/13/2025

The Beat of My Heart

222

07/06/2025

71

07/02/2025

171

06/29/2025

Poem for The Black Hills

121

06/22/2025

My Last Day in Ogalala

169

06/15/2025

174

06/08/2025

Gathering of Poets

246

06/01/2025

Around the Next Turn

178

05/25/2025

The Traveler Card

223

05/22/2025

as we metamorphose

167

05/21/2025

The Song is my Superpower

203

05/18/2025

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

301

05/11/2025

A Guide to Flagging and Traffic Control Near the End of Construction Season

227

05/11/2025

At the End of the Road, At the End of the Day

251

05/04/2025

My Calling at an Intersection along IA 136

285

04/27/2025

360

04/22/2025

273

04/15/2025

350

04/13/2025

269

04/06/2025

Sunday at my Leisure

493

03/30/2025

354

03/23/2025

Out the Back Door

258

03/16/2025

after a winter of loss

176

03/16/2025

Small Town Portraits

207

03/09/2025

Light as I Get up on the First Day of Spring

427

03/02/2025

In with a Song, Out with a Measure of Silence

368

02/23/2025

228

02/22/2025

Mind of the Heart

203

02/16/2025

Southern Exposure

530

02/09/2025

188

02/02/2025

Poet in the House

487

01/26/2025

328

01/12/2025

Conjuring the Lives of Paul McCartney and The Beatles

464

01/08/2025

505

01/03/2025

Byways in Wisconsin

332

01/01/2025

December 31, as Rain Turns into Snow

538

12/29/2024

343

12/22/2024

Like Stars and Dreams

269

12/18/2024

Courtyard in Back

464

12/08/2024

The Ghost of Summer Returns

211

12/01/2024

Ode to Door County

397

11/28/2024

445

11/22/2024

327

11/18/2024

290

11/10/2024

Reflections of Stillness

404

11/01/2024

Looking Outside the Upstairs Window, and It's All Saints Day

475

10/30/2024

Animating Innate Vibrance

289

10/28/2024

578

10/16/2024

Moment of Realization

574

10/09/2024

A Fellow Poet Wrote Her Obit In 2020

485

10/04/2024

168

09/29/2024

Inside the Looking Glass

328

09/26/2024

Summer into Fall

282

09/20/2024

Night after I Sing

232

09/16/2024

one day at a time

433

09/15/2024

Soupsters Online

239

09/07/2024

September Sixth with a Whisper

265

09/04/2024

September Fourth

295

09/01/2024

the lost and found department

273

08/20/2024

The Cost of Living

824

08/09/2024

363

08/02/2024

316

07/25/2024

272

07/18/2024

276

07/13/2024

316

07/05/2024

In and Out of Love

389

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Quotes

Quote Left Sometimes you have to parent the adults you know.
Go to Quote / Comment | by Mike Bayles

Quote Left You can't revise a blank page.
Go to Quote / Comment | by Mike Bayles

Short Stories

Title	Categories
Stay True to Your Writing, A Letter to My Younger Self	for teens, inspirational, love, young adult,
Eve and the Spring Wind	fantasy, for kids, young adult,
A Change of Fortune	funny,
The Passing Sun	romantic,
As the Rock Falls	inspirational,
Everyone You Know Comes Back to You	mystery,

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