Plum Bob

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Cellular Automata,
something less than self
to sacrifice
all for the commonwealth

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ideation, a word
not in my lexicon,
previously unheard,
a thoughtful creation

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Beyond belief !
At least in the Civil War
one side showed its ability
to win without total attrition.

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For a month that's raged like a lion

and a sun that's continued to tease

while wind and rain chorusing scorn

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Here and There


Here, at fingertip, we touch the circumscribed

horizons of other people's lives

the watching

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hypnotized
(I am, days later,
a returning reader)
by lambent gaze

snow blanket shrews
full fed covertly
on...

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Chest waders might
more fit the bill
to ease into
your life of toil

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Lately I was seeing "Going Postal"
'explained'
by an old episode of 'Brooklyn 99'

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Lovely Photo

A stream, a lane.
From daily rain
oozes that bane,
mud puddles strain
bucolic gain
till summer

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Two Strikes. Will a Third call Out?


Like the boulder Sisyphus

daily sweated uphill,

in an endless life

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Equinoctial Gales


Orpheus sings,

at one

with the rush

of wind,

hastening to press

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ioactive-waste
3 Jul 2015 - The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands
is a hulking legacy of years of...

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Nature calls the nature-lover
stanza'd verse echoes your answer

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Counting Sheep



An earlier start

for work from today,

the clocks step ahead

in the U

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Altered Image


From rain the sullen day relents

and transcendent, in a moment,

the sun renders life

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Brexit

Live in the moment
between the ideal and real.
Despair is the bridge...

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winding
/ˈwʌɪndɪŋ/
noun

1. 1.
   a twisting movement or course.
   "the windings of the stream"

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I've always been surprised at how quickly
the Vikings assimilated into other cultures
when they invaded other areas becoming
French...

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Thanks both, I had a feeling that Limned was a word I'd used before

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Cuthbert

Heaved, the helmsman's oar sleights

waves trough and crest combing fights

so in each salty pit the dragon

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