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coulda been worse -
NWS called for
five to nine.....

judih wrote: ↑

Today, 9:46 am

i think if you state: Tone of Voice - it's enough!
but i got it without the stage directions.

ahh, shit - the residue of my Catholic upbringing - "Thou shalt feel guilt at all times!"

("I was just kidding" is sooo Sidney Powell...)

april surprise
four inches of wet snow
thanks, new hampshire

Electric mountain bike? What kind of newfangled tomfoolery is that? Hobnail boots were good enough for our brutish ancestors, they're good enough for me. You can only hold that opinion because you have never ridden one. - I gotta tell ya, Roy, you would love-love-love it. Every hill flattened, ever...

... and don't give the literal-minded transplant from Canada too much attention - he's actually a wild romanticist ya know, why else would he be living in New Damn Hampshire next to some of the best rail trails anywhere? - Why he does not have an electric mountain bike yet is the reason I don't tru...

I'm not the best-informed to comment on poetry, especially that leaning toward the abstract - I'm too literal-minded. (Must be my Canadian ancestry.) BUT... I will say that for some reason, this song popped into my head while reading the 1st stanza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MNknFy2gdQ&ab_cha...

today's must-haves
tomorrow's ephemera
anyone seen my Beanie Babies?

I may be an endangered species the last of my kind bereft of any iToys forced to read books or magazines or do crosswords while waiting at the laundromat built my own blanket chest back in '78 from #2 pine same stock as my bookcase could have bought either from WalMart for 49.95 - but sans the bark ...

given enough love
children released into the wild
never forget home

8 20 am the mingo.mp3i recorded, and then re-recorded. I think it could benefit from a faster pace, a male voice. Just sayin' Well, here's my 3rd take (with some pauses and umms and fluffs removed) - 51 seconds to your 68, abt 33% faster.   8-20_AM.mp3 Yeah. And the energy of speaking to an audienc...

april sunshine -
a small spider
fiddles with its prey

  every ecosystem has its bottom feeders - grifters and scammers abound like weeds and ticks they're just there no sin in stepping carefully and believing that if it seems too good to be true then most likely it ain't true some might call it pessimism or even cynicism... I call it healthy skepticism...

Adversity can inspire some pretty intense writing. I've been through a couple of rough patches, and those primal screams constituted some of my best. I hope your stretch of white water isn't too long, & you come out the other side ok.

Wow! Just wow! ... All woven together like magic... OMG! ... Thank you... I'm delighted to have delighted but this was Doreen's idea... your words... saw's and doreen's and wireman's visuals... and judih showed me how to read... (trust me, you DON'T want to hear my 1st recitation) this was a team e...

judih, steve - thanks! Very happy that you enjoyed it. I'm sometimes - often, actually - awestruck by the poetic powerhouses writing here, and can feel like a little kid playing dress-up when I post. I considered putting the link in its own thread in the Music/Spoken Word/Video forum, but figured ev...