Category Archives: Poetry

Indolescence

Posted on July 7, 2025 by sputterpub

Can she be indolent? If it’s a skill,she may need time to find her expertise.Since seventeen the girl’s derived a thrillfrom countering her mother’s harsh decreesof selfishness and laziness. Her willhas led to diligent activitiesthat now appear a form of … Continue reading →

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Hype in the Headline

Posted on July 6, 2025 by sputterpub

Is this bad journalism, or contemptfor every reader? Someone okayed “hype”to end a headline, like they were exemptfrom objectivity. Of course I gripeto read “ideal”’ as if it were a typeof lukewarm adjective, and see there’s nodistinguishing veracity from tripe.I … Continue reading →

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Security

Posted on July 5, 2025 by sputterpub

I’ve heard a dog’s the best security,against a village pillager or thiefwho’d breach the door and mess with property,disturb the peace, and give domestic grief.Although they can be noisy, I agree:canine as excellent’s been my belief.Perhaps instead the guarding can … Continue reading →

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What Good’s It Do?

Posted on July 4, 2025 by sputterpub

What good’s it do, to trumpet your own praise?Is anybody listening to you?What carries weight in each self-serving phrase?What good’s it do? For even if the claims you make are true,they won’t convince a soul. Are there displaysthat can inspire … Continue reading →

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Wallpaper

Posted on July 3, 2025 by sputterpub

Encountering a pattern on real wallswhile using a salon facility,projects me back. Now memory recallsa time when talent hung where all could seeabove a wainscoting. True paperydesign that can be felt as well as seenprovides a touch so satisfactory,it renders … Continue reading →

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Go Figure This

Posted on July 2, 2025 by sputterpub

Go figure this – she focused the complainton one of two. Maternal prejudicefrom her is never subtle, nothing faint –go figure this. What she deems cute is dull and obvious.She thinks a gripe and blurts without restraint,and any wound she’ll … Continue reading →

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Like Dogwood

Posted on July 1, 2025 by sputterpub

I notice Berkeley dogwoods every year,when they put forth their multitudes of bloom.My brother said they cannot flourish here(our air’s too damp, there’s insufficient roomfor roots to find the needed pedosphere),but I don’t see impending any doom.Today I aim to … Continue reading →

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Pruned

Posted on June 30, 2025 by sputterpub

Chaotic as that photograph appears,my gard’ner spent last week almost a dayengaged with rake and bucket, broom and shears,and filled two bins with what he cleared away.A neighbor planned and planted it ten yearsago, and now the yard’s a lush … Continue reading →

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Mirror Image

Posted on June 29, 2025 by sputterpub

I’m guessing that she never really meantthose careless words. Some hours afterward,I thought it would be foolish to resentcomparison insulting and absurd.The other’s not alike – if there’s a bentfor acting like my mother, what I heardis incorrect. The case … Continue reading →

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Super Power

Posted on June 28, 2025 by sputterpub

I daily play at solitaire and win,although sometimes it takes me several tries,wherein I vary how I flip a card,so there’s occasion when I re-begin,or skip an easy move. It’s a surpriseto triumph when the dealt array is hard. Go … Continue reading →

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