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“Halloween Beetle Haiku,” by Eric Robert Nolan

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Halloween Beetle

sheds not his clever costume —

a jack’o’lantern.

 

 

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Throwback Thursday: NBC’s “Cliffhangers” (1979)

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We were chatting about obscure TV shows a couple of weeks ago after I shared a post about “Manimal” (which I was surprised to find lovingly remembered by some otherwise sane people).  I was shocked when someone else remembered “Cliffhangers,” which ran for a single season on NBC in 1979.

Dear God, did I love this show when I was a first grader.  I hollered whenever it came on; I’m pretty sure my Mom was amused by that.  I think this is technically the first prime-time show I was ever a fan of.  (Yeah, I ended that last sentence with a preposition; it’s my damn blog.)

 

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Ouchey Mountain Town Flora.

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This happens from time to time.  I’ll be out walking, and I’ll inexplicably return covered with these — which is weird, because I don’t remember brushing up against any plants.

They get into my bed, and they’re actually sharp — creating the very real danger of injury to my unmentionables.

 

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My recording of “Roanoke Summer Midnight”

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Hey, gang!  I had my reading of my poem “Roanoke Summer Midnight” included in a video by Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine a couple of weeks ago, after the piece was published in its 2017 anthology.  If you happened to miss that, this is the individual recording that I sent to the publisher for the video’s creation.  (I just uploaded it to Youtube.)

 

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“The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Eric Robert Nolan)

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Happy Halloween once again!  Below you’ll find my audio recording of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

I apologize that this and my other readings are a bit “breathy;” I doubt Poe envisioned an asthmatic narrator.  It’s because I’m recording these poems on my cell phone, and I’ve got to stand very close to it to be heard.  I believe I’ll be able to eliminate this problem when I get some better recording equipment.

Enjoy!

 

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Pumpkins and poems

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Happy Halloween!  My miniature books arrived yesterday from Poems-for-All, and they look just great!  Grendel Pumpkin and Ebullient Pumpkin are watching over a few copies right here.

 

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“With Orion’s sword, the Pumpkin arose …”

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With Orion’s sword, the Hunter arose
And swept the world with fury and grace.
In him I was born, in him I will die,
In him I will lose name, station and face.

Death over weakness
Death over despair
Death over personal gain.

Death over dishonor
Death over undeath
Death over fire with no flame.

All this I pledge thee
O Grendel, great Khan
To serve and protect
Over death’s endless tide,

With your word in my heart
Your eyes in my face
And your tooth in my hand
By my side.

 

— from Matt Wagner’s “Grendel”

 

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“This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable,” by John Keats (read by Eric Robert Nolan)

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I was looking around the web for a Halloween poem to record (it’s a bit tricky, as they have to be in the public domain), and I found this very short poem by John Keats.  Its imagery makes it somewhat Halloweenish, I suppose.  I hope that you enjoy it.

If you do like this one, then stop by tomorrow for my reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

 

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Poems-for-All releases four mini-books of my writing!

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I’m honored today to see the Poems-for-All project publish four of its signature “miniature books” featuring my work – two with my flash fiction and two with my poetry. Poems-for-All is a unique and truly inventive California-based publisher that produces these mini-books and then distributes them for free in variety of public places. That way, they’re “scattered like seeds” and can reach and surprise new readers – and maybe even create new lovers of poetry. (They’re even shared in Scotland at the St. Andrews International Poetry Festival.) All four of the mini-books containing my writing feature beautiful artwork by publisher Robert Hansen. (I just love the covers!)

The first flash fiction mini-book features my 100-word horror story, “There in the Bags” (just in time for Halloween). The second features my responses to the popular online Six-Word Sci-Fi Story Challenge.

The first mini-book containing my poetry contains the first stanza of my most popular poem, “Confession.” (It works well as a standalone short poem.) The second contains my recent poem, “Consciousness Haiku.”

I remain tremendously grateful to Mr. Hansen for selecting my work for this fun and innovative project, and for producing such terrific artwork to accompany my writing.
For more information on Poems-for-All, please see the project’s website here:

https://poems-for-all.com/  

 

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Tuesday Morning is a great store.

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So this is the Day-of-the-Dead-style light-up skull that I bought at Tuesday Morning and then sent to a friend.  I packed it with assiduous care, but of course it arrived broken anyway, because U.S. postal employees are a brutish, godless people who know no love nor any mercy.

Anyway, the people at Tuesday Morning in my friend’s town let her exchange it, no problem — even when it was abundantly clear that it wasn’t the company’s fault.  And the salesperson was really nice about it.

And the skull itself is wicked-cool, isn’t it?

 

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