Category Archives: Poetry

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Time Cannot be Kept

Posted on January 21, 2020 by mitchteemley

Salvador Dali had it right: Clocks cannot be trusted. Not because they keep poor time, but because time cannot be kept. Instead, it keeps us in cages made of minutes. And yet the solution is not to escape, but to … Continue reading →

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Knock, Knock…

Posted on January 19, 2020 by mitchteemley

…Who’s There? A little owl lived in an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why can’t we be like that wise little bird? ~Mid-19th Century (Author Unknown) “Therefore, beloved, … Continue reading →

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A girl named, sincerely

Posted on November 6, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is George Raymond of the exceedingly quirky blog site Trefology. At least I think it is. That’s him in the picture below. At least I think it is. That’s because it’s exceedingly difficult–no make that … Continue reading →

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October Skies

Posted on October 18, 2019 by mitchteemley

October is the northern world’s most beautiful month, its autumn capstone (while the south is in spring—not too shabby either), when leaves vie with sunrises to out-spectacle one another, and clouds and moons stage sunset harvest revues. Nostrils flare as … Continue reading →

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You’re Peculiar

Posted on October 17, 2019 by mitchteemley

It was 1999 (as in “party like it’s…”). I was wearing khakis and a polo shirt, and was about to do a reading of my autobiographical poem Fool’s Odyssey for a room full of clove cigarette-smoking hipsters, identically clad in … Continue reading →

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Brussels Sprouts

Posted on September 25, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is John Malone of the same-named blog site. John is a Brit (I think), but beyond that I know little, except what he reveals in his writing. Which I very much enjoy, and which is … Continue reading →

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My Conception

Posted on September 10, 2019 by mitchteemley

As I sat staring at my computer, contemplating what to write, noting several “Must-Read Celebrity Stories!” on my home page and tracking the labored progression of a particularly fat squirrel up the ornamental beech tree outside my window, while obsessing … Continue reading →

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If I were?

Posted on August 28, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Drew B of the blog site Rumenate (intentionally misspelled). I don’t know much about Drew–where he lives, what the B stands for. But I do know that his sparse and sometimes enigmatic poetry always … Continue reading →

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Who Am I?

Posted on August 25, 2019 by mitchteemley

I considered my smallness, and said, “Lord, I am nothing. Who am I that You should even notice me?” And a still, small voice answered, “You are the one who asks the question. And that is not nothing.  It is … Continue reading →

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Clouds

Posted on August 13, 2019 by mitchteemley

What are they trying to tell us? Then again, maybe it’s not so much what they’re trying to tell us, as what we’re trying to tell them. “There is divinity in the clouds.” ~Lailah Gifty Akita “Clouds in the sky … Continue reading →

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