I’m Bigger Than You Are
A Most Interesting Game It was a wet, wet week in Yellowstone. Probably a good thing, and it didn’t keep us off the trails. Torrential downpours, late spring snow melt, and new snow combined to turn...
View ArticleSearch Engine Poetry
Bluebee, poet and photographer extraordinaire, has invited us to participate in her Search Engine* Poetry Challenge Here’s my entry: In Praise of Sweet Poems Praising sweet poems quirky sweet poems i...
View ArticleResistance is Futile
Mostly speechless, I’m still trying to absorb the nice things Bluebee said about Sweet Planet Poems in her beautiful blog. Bluebee initiated the dialogue about search engine terms, suggesting we write...
View ArticleCaptured!
Capture Me, Poetry Capture me, Poetry, and don’t let go! Sneak up beside me at the symphony* Track me down trails in Yellowstone Seize me when least expected Shadow me by sunlight Encircle me by...
View ArticlePresidents’ Day/Fondly Remembering Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon (??) Poor, poor pitiful me Richard Nixon looks good, you see I never thought, in all my days, that I could utter such a phrase To China he went and opened the door NEPA enacted, he...
View ArticleNo Kisses
No Kisses for Valentine’s Day (Belated) No kisses today I’m sorry to say I saw you about with a squirrel in your mouth a very dead squirrel you dropped at my feet a Valentine’s treat So I must...
View ArticleSpam I Am/Spam Filter Poetry
Usually I delete spam as quickly as possible, without looking, saying a quick word of thanks to WordPress for catching it so adroitly. Today I wondered, “What would Bluebee do with this?” Write a...
View ArticleNo Dogs Allowed
Walking the Walk, Anyway You talk the talk and we walk the walk but when nose goes to sniff and tail begs to wag Where are you? In Yellowstone, no doubt where we can’t follow not having the...
View ArticleIt’s Been Nice Knowing Ya’– Toss Me the Car Keys!
I didn’t tell the full truth in my last post. Probably to protect the … well, not exactly innocent. To tell the full story, I have to go back a dozen years to one of our earliest semi-annual spring...
View ArticleBelly Laughs for Breakfast
I have a TV screen in the kitchen, where I often indulge my addiction to Turner Classic Movies (TCM) while I cook. Today I saw a few snippets from the middle of Tugboat Annie, a 1933 classic with...
View ArticleDuck Courtship Behavior
Have a good laugh watching duck mating behavior, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library Plus, this link has more about identifying raptors in winter
View ArticleA Different Kind of Space Shot
from The Washington Post, September 8, 2015, by Rachel Feltman After three years maturing in space, Ardbeg Distillery’s malt whiskey has returned to earth. The BBC reports significant differences in...
View ArticleBright Moon Wandering – New Poetry Book
I have a new book of poetry – Bright Moon WanderingI would be very happy if you took a look and gave me your thoughts!
View ArticleNarcissists’ Theme Song
Narcissists can’t unite; but if they could, their theme song might be “It Has to Be Me”, sung to the tune of “It Had to Be You”, by Isham Jones and Gus Kahn. Here are the updated lyrics and two...
View ArticleCompletion
Complete Me I am incomplete without: the red fox who shadows my tracks leaving prints and pee everywhere but hiding himself from sight; the moose whose blackness fades from view behind a tree; the...
View ArticleElixir of Ornery Moose
October 2016 It’s rifle hunting season in the Colorado mountains. We – that includes dogs – wear orange clothing and patrol our mountain property, hoping to protect our moose, deer, elk, and bear....
View ArticleCall me Cheepy
Names are Important I recognized at the age of three that names are important. The names you are given, and, especially, the names you choose for yourself. Others demonstrate respect and caring by...
View ArticleThe Poop Stays Put?!
New Age Swim Diapers or And the Poop Stays Put?! No regular diapers like yesterday with newfangled ones the pee finds its way The pee finds its way, you know, flows through but the poop stays put where...
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