Category Archives: Personality

Significance

Posted on September 28, 2022 by sputterpub

I didn’t feel emotionally numb,but when my eyes began to leak, I knewsignificance. They didn’t flow, but fromsomewhere in me tears welled and brimming grew.I felt no grief or sadness. I stood dumb,and recognizing something seeping through.A little seam of … Continue reading →

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Ignoring You

Posted on September 24, 2022 by sputterpub

Ignoring you is not a goal for me.But carping hot and bothered like a shrew,your shrieking carves the only path I see:ignoring you. When I share bothered feelings like I do,you leap to denigrate my familywith facile observations, never true. … Continue reading →

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Polite Discourse

Posted on September 13, 2022 by sputterpub

My mother tried, when I was young, to teachme all the manners deemed to be polite.I wasn’t to allow my talk to reachreligion, or political insight.If I had nothing nice to say, I mightsay nothing, or discuss the temperature.And though … Continue reading →

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Perhaps I’ll Start to Dance

Posted on September 12, 2022 by sputterpub

Perhaps I’ll start to dance again,or practice yoga now I’ve earnedthe time and place to stretch and bend,the patience that I’ve sorely learned. I’m in the office once a week.Perhaps I’ll start to dance again,at home with time I used … Continue reading →

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Romance

Posted on September 11, 2022 by sputterpub

My love’s comportment won’t embarrass me.I brim with pride instead of shame, in fact.Nobody else can share my privacy. My darling doesn’t do discourtesy,but flourishes as my ideal of tact.My love’s comportment won’t embarrass me. I’d relish what would be … Continue reading →

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Another Slow Change

Posted on September 10, 2022 by sputterpub

Five years ago I volunteered my timeto help the son and spouse with childcare.I still had opportunities to rhymeand exercise, exchanging office airfor inside/outside kid activities,from four months old to walking, talking play.I got to share in first discoveriesof all … Continue reading →

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Modulation

Posted on September 9, 2022 by sputterpub

Some personalities are extra-large;apparently they come in varied sizes.Your tendency’s to fill a room, and chargeinto your current subject, no disguisesor affect. Then for sure this one despisesyou, while many like your bold technique.I know you know. My words hold … Continue reading →

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To JAA

Posted on August 22, 2022 by sputterpub

You need to tell your mother what you feel.I see your face and recollect how wellyour uncle spoke when he made his appeal.You need to tell. I used to rage. You should have heard me yellwhen I was middle-aged. My … Continue reading →

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After the Party

Posted on August 17, 2022 by sputterpub

I knew I’d have to give it up if I lived long enough.The deprivation must disrupt and moments may be rough.But any time the urge emerges I will comprehendthe way to old and well diverges from the party’s end.

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Reading List

Posted on August 15, 2022 by sputterpub

Consuming science fiction as a teen,continuing till I was 35,I swallowed Asimov and I was keenon Heinlein, Dick, and classic H.G. Wells,LeGuin of course, and Herbert’s thirsty scene.But latterly I’ve turned to history.Rereading Austen makes me feel serene.An optimist who … Continue reading →

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