Poems & Other Lies

Poems & Other Lies

Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/4/25 6:30 34F (1.1C) There is a faint breeze.  It is cool and cloudy. The moon is full but it cannot be seen.                                        ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/3/25 6:00 34F (1.1C)  A lavender mist is swirling around my face.                                            ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/2/25 5:30 36F (2.2C) Calm, cold, relatively  dry. The moon has gone to bed. It is a dark morning. Above me the broken clouds are flecked with stars.                            ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  12/1/25 6:30 28F (-2.2C) Silvery-gray freezing fog ebbing and flowing, sometimes dense and enveloping,  sometimes retreating to the shadows of the surrounding trees. It hit freezing early  last night and the temperature has dropped since then, making the first...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/30/25 5:30 34F (1.1C) Cloudy, dark, still. It rained a little last night, but seems to have dried out. A car drives by. I see a couple of stars poke through the clouds low in the west. To the east, a neighbor's paranoid light rends the cloak of night...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/29/25 5:30 32F (0.0C) Calm, cloudy and dark. The half moon was setting behind the oaks when I went to bed last night.  This morning is dark and still, with a coat of ice. Fog is rising from the creek and creeping through the briars and rank grass. The...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/28/25 8:30 41F (5C) Broad daylight.  I slept in. It is a calm morning,  with birds chittering, foggy around the edges. A light mist is falling from the gray clouds overhead. Yesterday the family was over, about thirty people, including seven kids. The house...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/27/25 5:00 42F (5.5C) Cool, damp and dark. There is no wind. After a brief pause, it has started to rain again. Inside the tipi was dry and smoke curled from the ashes of last night's fire. I soon had a merry  blaze ignited and piled hardwood on to hold it...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/26/25 6:30 40F (4.4C) Cloudy, cool and damp. The downpour stopped sometime after I went to bed last night. The ashes inside the lodge were still warm this morning and I was able to easily rekindle the fire. The pumpkin rings didn't get wet and continue to...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/25/25 6:00 36F (2.2C) Calm, foggy, dark. Amy is up. Traffic is beginning to move. I hear a truck's back up alarm somewhere down  the road. Walter  is barking.  The rooster is crowing. I am still waking up. Everyone seems to be ahead of me this Tuesday...

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