Monthly Archives: January 2025

Obliquity

Posted on January 31, 2025 by sputterpub

Your words have power but it’s indirect.You won’t convince antagonists with facts.Such effort is a waste. Instead, connectthe other with suggestion that attacksunquestioned stale assumptions. Sense distracts,but subtle and subliminal might winadjustment near miraculous. Impactsare possible with artful origin.

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A Garden Gift

Posted on January 30, 2025 by sputterpub

In transit to the compost bin to tossthe morning coffee grounds, it caught my eye:a harbinger of coming spring, a glossof blooming foliage 12 inches high.I planted neither seed nor shoot acrossthat space between 2 bushes. I could tryidentifying this … Continue reading →

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Eariness

Posted on January 29, 2025 by sputterpub

A doctor once advised me not to pokean item less than elbow-size in ears.Detecting solid wisdom in his joke, I took his point to heart. That was 10 yearsago at least, while he removed the waxI’d grown (that syringe brought … Continue reading →

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Post-Awareness

Posted on January 28, 2025 by sputterpub

I planned and penned this poem a week ago,intending it would post on my return.I packed to travel, but I couldn’t knowwhat oddities would quirk or when I’d learn.I’d hug familiar bodies, voice concernand love as well, but other moods … Continue reading →

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Slower!

Posted on January 27, 2025 by sputterpub

Intending to reduce my speed in mostendeavors, I assume that age will serveto aid me toward that goal. I used to boast(at least within) at work and walk, aswerveand weaving through obstructions, like a hostof foes would block me but … Continue reading →

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Waxing Symptoms

Posted on January 26, 2025 by sputterpub

Immersing in my bath last week, a weirdsensation was occasioned for my head.It felt like water in my ear, appearedto be a drainage failure, but insteadof dripping out, no posture I tried clearedthe painless situation. When I readand someone peered, … Continue reading →

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Ending

Posted on January 25, 2025 by sputterpub

The meditation centered on the end –of marriage, friendship, work, a point of view.I sat the mat and tried to spine-extend,directing thoughts while breathing deep, on you.Accepting that our minds have changed, it’s truefor most the set I couldn’t recollectwhatever … Continue reading →

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Mailbox Security

Posted on January 24, 2025 by sputterpub

The mail collection box was modified.What’s been a pull-down door is now a slotthat won’t accept a package or a widetransmittal of much paper. I did notattend to changes recently applied,but terrorists and vandals lost their shotto push a bomb … Continue reading →

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Diagnostic Coffee

Posted on January 23, 2025 by sputterpub

It’s seldom coffee loses its appealfor me, as tonic mugs of morning fuel.The only days without are if I feelan illness coming on, when germs are cruel-victorious. Today’s was like a jewelof taste, near chocolate-y, and rich in smell.Enjoying sip … Continue reading →

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Story Morals

Posted on January 22, 2025 by sputterpub

Remembering A Christmas Carol, readwhen I was 12, one summer long ago,and screened each winter, this year someone leddiscussion with the questions: do we know,was Marley visited? Did he ignoresome spirit lessons which were given breath?I think so, but what … Continue reading →

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