Poems & Other Lies

Poems & Other Lies

Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/26/25 7:00 41F (5C) The wind and rain have stopped for the moment, replaced by a light breeze and the soft tapping rattle of water falling from the trees onto leaves already covering the ground. The approaching light has chased away all but the brightest...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/25/25 5:00 40F (4.4C) Another dark morning. Cloudy with an occasional star shining through the breaks. Yesterday's rain did not amount to much. This morning the deck is dry.                        ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/24/25 7:00 44F (6.6C) Cloudy with rain forecast in the afternoon. My arms no longer hurt from the vaccinations I got Monday. That took a little longer than I expected,  but not too bad. Flu, covid, and pneumonia. Still need the second shingles shot. Getting...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

        10/23/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) Clear, cool, dry, and calm. A bird is chittering. Walter Dawg is napping on the deck with one eye open. Amy is up, probably sitting in her easy chair playing solitaire on the laptop. My tea is exactly the right...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    10/22/25 6:00 39F (3.8C) I awoke to a still  morning, the sky full of glittering stars. It is so dark I had to feel  my way across the deck to the tub. Overhead  in the cold blackness, the twins watch Orion stalk his prey into the oaks. The dogs cavort...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/21/25 6:45 38F (3.3C) Light breeze, new moon, overcast. Cool, damp and grey. I scrubbed the stale taste of last night's dreams from my mouth and my tea is washing the flavor of toothpaste away. Soaking in the darkness I listen to the whir of tires on damp...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/20/25 5:30 45F (7.2C) No wind.  Dark, cool, relatively dry.                                                        ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/19/25 7:00 47F (8.3C) Overcast with a cool breeze.  It's been raining and everything is wet. The air is spiced with the tang of wood smoke from morning fires. I hear someone walking around. Women's voices or perhaps children They have set Walter to barking....

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/18/25 5:30 40F (4.4C) There is a cold breeze blowing. It is very dark,  no moon to be seen but all the stars are out.                                        ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    10/17/25 6:30 49F (9.4C) Dry, breezy  and overcast. There were stars out earlier  but  it is cloudy now. Walter was calm earlier but he is barking at the nieghbors across the street now. I went plinking with Pete yesterday.  Today is gun cleaning day. I...

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