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I concluded today that I can do more polishing and editing of all the compositions I have been collecting in digital format and eventually make a submission to a real poetry magazine.  It is my great leap forward you might say.  If you follow the above link you will find additional comments concerning enrolling in the Poetry Foundation's mailing lists.  You are welcome to join me there.

You will find that I will post items to this blog in the future, but I have concluded that my more creative talents are better placed in a different channel.  Basically, I don't think I am getting enough feedback on this blog, so I am searching for gratification elsewhere.  Now don't worry, you're not fired and I'm not quitting.  I am simply re-directing some of my energy.

I hope you continue to find my comments here as interesting as you all have in the past.  I will keep plugging away.  I think I am hooked on writing creatively at this point and after all, the great USA is still a free country.....

Cheers.  There is plenty more writing from me where all this has come from, so look for me in the slick magazine editions of Poetry in the future.  I might actually make it someday.

Quanta: A temporary lull in the painfulness of living (excerpt)

 sometimes I feel like I am on the edge of dissolving
Into the quanta constituents that make me up.
 A bunch of racing elementary particles and energy
Like ripples on the ocean all independent and interconnected
At the same time.  Only this time there is no time, just the spaces between
Moments like falling rain drops
Each capturing something unique about the nothingness
Of which it is made.

Other times not so much.

Anyway, I think this will hold together for me
I just have to keep reminding myself
That prosperity is the glue that makes all this stick together
But then again it is not that.
Money is a sign of the quality that makes this reality all stick together
It is not the quality of the "stickiness of reality" itself
So see I am not so crazy.
I simply seek the glue itself when money should suffice.
But then the glue is the source of the quanta which is prosperity also.

Believe in the harmony of Nature,
Congruity between the scales of existence.
Why do they call it Chaos Theory
Except for the fact the it will drive you to distraction
To contemplate the infinite coastline of the mind.

May's poem, edited and revised a little

The Dystopian Phenomenon:

from a tale of lonely lions in their pride.

Why is the future so often portrayed as dystopian?

Coming down after years of riding the veils

Between the reality in the fractional dimensions of the mind.

You and I, whether we know it or not:

Still trapped within childhood’s spells.

Wrapped up in the distractions from matters at hand

To feel the cosmic breeze and weightlessness of pretense.

To come down from this among people who are now much

Older than you remembered; expected: brings one lone tear to your eye.

Creative Picture

Here's a creative picture of a great bartender.  More Negroni's over here dude!

Bill, of the Trapped Truth Poetry Group

Bill is a great impromptu poet who I met at a meeting of the local Trapped Truth Society last month.

wide format of Henry

My neighbor Henry is a great chef of vegetarian low fat low sodium cook.  My blood pressure has dropped since I started eating dinner with him many years ago.

Photo of Don and Tim plus narrative

Me and my brother Don.  Im in the blue tshirt.  Photo by my Swedish-American friend.  WE drove around and met with a Shreveport friend who was teaching English in Baton Rouge and now is moving to San Diego.  Later there was seared tuna and other seafood at a local Mike Anderson's and coffee at Starbucks right off the interstate.  I could tell my photographer friend was lost when the GPS system started giving instructions in Romanian; or was that Swedish?

Bayou landsacpes

Behind the trees, there is a giant cell phone tower,, but you don't really see it at this angle.