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Category: Poetry

  • This Is Not The Villanelle I Promised You – But It Is A Poem With An Introduction That Turned Into A Post

    This Is Not The Villanelle I Promised You – But It Is A Poem With An Introduction That Turned Into A Post

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22147 – 719: I think I have a structure for the newer poem lined out but it’s not even close to done yet. But here’s a piece from before I started blogging. One of the things I enjoy about and first attracted me to poetry was the…

  • Who’s To Blame For Herb’s Poetry Habit

    Who’s To Blame For Herb’s Poetry Habit

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22138 – 709: As you may or may not recall I have at times fancied myself something of a poet. I think some of my stuff is okay while some of it is mind-rotted drivel of the lowest sort. And some in between. I have read books…

  • Unmarried Marriage Counselors – They’re Everywhere! – An Ode

    Unmarried Marriage Counselors – They’re Everywhere! – An Ode

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    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22107-678: On Monday the 10th, Bruce over at Weave-A-Web posted a story about a pair of unmarried marriage counselors. Marriage Enrichment Program. He is the blogger that most reminds me of O. Henry if O. Henry had more dark endings than light. Anyway, I read it and…

  • Throw It Back Thursday – what’s past is prologue

    Throw It Back Thursday – what’s past is prologue

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    Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge. Shakespeare – The Tempest That’s really a pretty dramatic opening for this post, but I happened to see the quote somewhere and recalled a bit of The Tempest to memory and realized I don’t have anything nearly as…

  • Throw It Back Thursday – The Monkey’s Disgrace

    Throw It Back Thursday – The Monkey’s Disgrace

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    This was not original with me so I don’t know if it really counts as a true throw-it-back-Thursday entry. Well, since it’s my blog and I make the rules here, it must count because I said so, hahaha. We have been sorting and condensing some boxes and I found this…

  • World Poetry Day

    World Poetry Day

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    So, I saw a couple of different places that today is World Poetry Day. This was at the same time I was going through some old junk in my saved folders. I look at stuff I’ve written and a lot of it’s not suitable for publication here. Some of it…

  • To Coffee

    To Coffee

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    An Ode (Or rather, my feeble attempt at one.) Caffeine! Adrenaline! Adenosine!Epi–Epi–Epinephrine!Yay team! Rah-rah! Goooo Team Coffee! Getting excited is easy to doWhen you’ve had a cup or twoOr three or four or fiveWhich makes you feelYou’ve come alive! You say, perhaps, you like decafAnd/or, (this should make you laugh)When…

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