A quiet moment
Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
WUTR
Write Up The Road’s Blog Posts
Remember that old saying …
about letting the cat out of the bag? One of those moments when you have to stop laughing long enough to rescue a hapless cat from being gobbled up by a paper bag. #CaturdayWeekly
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Sonnet
Sonnet of Selected First Lines that Begin with “The” (from the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley) The gentleness of rain was in the wind. The babe is at peace within the womb. The billows on the beach are leaping around it. The Elements respect their Maker’s seal. The fiery mountains answer each other.
From Middle Earth
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Shop Talk, August 2021
W.B. Yeats wrote about “the sedentary toil of creative art.” And T.S. Eliot added: ‘And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”’ Marcus Aurelius starts his Meditations by thanking his family, friends, and teachers, and then explains how he was influenced by them; it was from one
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Watch this spot
We’re going to have some fun this summer – and beyond, if you readers enjoy it too – and celebrate Caturday Weekly with photos, info, maybe puzzles and who knows what-all else – so if you’re part of the Cat Tribe Aficionados, let everyone else know to look here for all things cat! Purrs! #CaturdayWeekly
Three poems
SONGBIRDS IN THE ORCHARD Wings flapping, vibraslapping, Sputtering and snorting like horses, Neighing, whinnying, and nickering, Tsk-tsk-ing, squeaking, snapping, squealing, scolding, Songbirds are just fussy squeeze toys. HIGHLIGHT REEL Endgame persona. Pull some lingo over. Metrics. Pleats, wrinkles. Glowering sun. Rainbow reveal. But plus things For awhile there Got crazy.
Not Everyone
Everything. Major thirds and minor thirds. L-shaped and X-rated. Drunken noodles. Sun-bleached songbirds. Pink and white sweetpeas. Nonrevocable motions to censure. Wagering homes. Acme Roofing. Jeep Wagoneer. Drop ins of brilliance. Over the top content. A pyramid of pyrite. Disrobed sound. Boyfriend shorts. Scratches in a hard wood floor. A badge and a heart
Outing
FEEL FREE TO WRITE MY BIOGRAPHY Just leave me out of it. WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT? He yelled at me. In Spanish. SANCTIONS Always sweeping, ever so stiff. IF YOU’RE HAVING TROUBLE VIEWING THIS EMAIL You deserve more from your points. THE
Bird Count
James Tate. Gary Snyder. Anne Sexton. Sylvia Plath. Frank O’Hara. Lisel Mueller. Galway Kinnell. Weldon Kees. Randall Jarrell. Richard Hugo. Allen Ginsberg. Robert Duncan. James Dickey. Robert Creeley. Gregory Corso. Elizabeth Bishop. John Ashberry. Tradition is they always depart on a certain date. They straggle in but on a certain date they all leave.