Category Archives: Writing

Year End

Posted on January 8, 2026 by sputterpub

Regardless of the date I post this poem,I typed it on December 31st.Expecting rain, I edited at home,the place where I’m most likely to be versed.Without an outside aim, I’ll be immersedin words and in a bath with bomb and … Continue reading →

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December 30

Posted on December 30, 2025 by sputterpub

The office afternoon today is allmy calendar’s recording for this week.The uncommitted hours form a sprawllike downy carpeting toward what I seek.I’ve half a dozen days, to overhaulprecisely nothing. Maybe I’ll bespeaka gentle outline for the coming year,to help me … Continue reading →

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Outward Bound

Posted on December 17, 2025 by sputterpub

I’ll have to go outside today, to findmy daily prompt. The garden looks too dead.It’s mid-December and though I’m inclinedto hunker here by fireside insteadof walking bearing weight, I’ll gift my mindwith fellows shopping gifts and winter bread.I planned to … Continue reading →

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Incipience

Posted on December 7, 2025 by sputterpub

Five hundred words or twenty minutes spent,whichever limit is acquired first,is all I plan to ask. That’s an extentattainable, for even with no burstof brilliance, I’ll transfer the tales I meant,by posing prose in paragraphs unversed.In sixty days or so … Continue reading →

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Intention 2026

Posted on December 5, 2025 by sputterpub

I sputtered, cut, and muttered for a while,but learned before that went on for too longthat few would need protection from my style.Retreating then to concentrate on song,and modifying efforts with a smile,I came to realize less and less was … Continue reading →

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November Evenings

Posted on November 12, 2025 by sputterpub

The sun is going down at 5 o’clock.The evening rolls in, darkening the view.And though aware I host some writer’s blockat dusk, I can revise a line or two,considering that while it’s nothing newI write, creative is the energyI loose … Continue reading →

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On Second Thought

Posted on November 11, 2025 by sputterpub

I think to write at night, but lately findmy hands would rather rest than hold a pen.Although ideas may germinate in mind,they need some percolation time. So whena theme occurs – a question or a kindof theory buds – I … Continue reading →

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Morning Write About Night

Posted on November 7, 2025 by sputterpub

Becoming more diurnal every year,I’m up at dawn and comatose by nine.Accomplishing all morning, then I veerto lassitude by 2 pm, my spineand brain to recess aimed. And that’s been finea decade, but I’m contemplating change –tonight I’ll write and … Continue reading →

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Editing

Posted on November 5, 2025 by sputterpub

Her letter to the editor was good(she sent it to me though I didn’t ask).Agreeing with its politics, I wouldhave slashed some words, if that had been my task.But pausing in reply I realized shouldimprove me. Well I knew she’d … Continue reading →

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10/12/25

Posted on October 19, 2025 by sputterpub

When I encounter this, 2 years or lessfrom now, and choose to edit it or not,I’ll recollect today without a guess;I’ll have no cause to murmur “I forgot.”That’s why I daily find some lines to jot.October 12th of Twenty Twenty-fivewas … Continue reading →

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