Careless

Published July 2, 2018 by Nan Mykel

I can relate to this so much. It sounds like my own thoughts tho not so elegant. I’d like to reblog.’

Sometimes,
I can’t remember who I am.
I look at photographs and wonder,
where did she go,
that carefree girl, that careful mother,
so careless with herself?

I often feel disjointed, as if part of me
has broken off,
a branch
hanging,
buffeted by the wind of time,
and wonder, is it mine?

When I read a poem
that was written in my name,
I scrutinise each line for me,
proof that I write poetry
and find that careful,
carefree girl I so carelessly mislaid.

Kim M. Russell, 29^th June 2018

Teenage me My response to Poets United Midweek Motif ~ When I Think About Myself also linked to dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night

Sumana has given us a thoughtful motif this midweek, and she begins with Maya Angelou’s poem ’When I Think About Myself’ – truly inspirational. She also includes poems by John Clare and Gerard Manley Hopkins…

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Remember This?

Published July 1, 2018 by Nan Mykel

FEB. 28, 2016

CNN interview

“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, okay? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So I don’t know.”

—Mark E Andersen Daily Kos

U.S. Ambassador to Estonia James D. Melville Jr. Resigns in Protest

Published July 1, 2018 by Nan Mykel

“So I leave willingly and with deep gratitude for being able to serve my nation with integrity for many years, and with great confidence that America, which is and has always been, great, will someday return to being right.”

Daily Kos Saturday June 30, 2018 ·

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Lincoln Quote–a re-blog

Published July 1, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Sitting On Blisters

by JoHanna Massey

“Elections belong to the people.

It’s their decision
If they decide
To turn their back on the fire
And burn their behinds,
Then they will just have to sit
On their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

Timely observation from Abe shared by JoHanna Massey

Did you see the strawberry moon?

Published June 30, 2018 by Nan Mykel

CNN:In the United States, the peak of the full moon happens depending on your time zone. In the Eastern Time Zone, that will happen at 12:53 a.m. Thursday, June 28. Back on the West Coast, peak time will be 9:53 p.m. PT Wednesday, June 27.

EarthSky:.

Strawberry Moon

On June 27 and 28, 2018, find the full moon – called the Rose Moon, Flower Moon or Strawberry Moon, and the Oak Moon, Cold Moon or Long Night’s Moon from the Southern Hemisphere – and look in the moon’s glare for a starlike point. That point is a planet, Saturn.Full Strawberry Moon and Saturn on June 27 and 28 | Tonight | EarthSkyEarthSky

In one of Bethanykay’s photo postings the moon looked different and I asked her if that was a strawberry moon. She said she didn’t know what a strawberry moon was, so I asked her for the date of her photo. She said she thought it was June 25. Here’s her photo–maybe it was on its way to being the strawberry moon?

I saw one several years ago and pulled off the road to snap it. It’s buried in a bunch of hard drives now, but it was remarkable. I didn’t know what I was looking at. Check it out next year!

Unsheltered for D’verse

Published June 28, 2018 by Nan Mykel

UNSHELTERED

I don’t know God, but I know His tree.

No pillar of salt but might as well be.

Planted in place, it cannot flee,

but curls its toes in the loam that is home.

Who Ordered This?

Published June 27, 2018 by Nan Mykel

….here each morning they are required to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, in English, to the country that holds them apart from their parents.

Why must they say those words, some of the children ask at the shelter in Brownsville, on the Mexican border in Texas?

“We tell them, ‘It’s out of respect,’ ” said one employee of the facility, known as Casa Padre, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing their job.

From Washington Post via Salon.com by Nicole Karlis

This Isn’t a Poem Tho It Looks Like One…

Published June 26, 2018 by Nan Mykel

A TRANSITIONAL OBJECT…

is a beloved and reassuring

item that stands in for Mom

when she is out of sight.

A late bloomer, I still have

need for Mom, but my own

transitional object is a book.

I tried to meditate tonight

but metaphors came to mock

the books which lined my shelf.

They made fun of the flying monk

who flew around the church wearing

no underpants and became a saint.

Graves, Yeats, Mann and Leibnitz

believe in the monk, as he is

described in Wilson’s The Occult.

At twelve my uncle gave me An

Experiment with Time by Dunne,

and how we dream of future events.

Hillman’s Dreams and the Underworld

scared me out of my Jungian analysis,

with hints of archetypes come to life.

Wilhelm Reich knew that his patient

had an abortion when she reported a

dream of a book standing upside down.

Strangers to Ourselves, The Whisperings

Within, and Sam Harris’ Free Will all

assuaged my need for companionship.

Wilson’s Consilience stirred my mind

and my heart, even though the friend

of a friend says he’s a misogynist.

Intellectuals alerted me to the fact that

Rousseau placed his five newborns in

baskets and left them, unnamed.

Discovery of the Unconscious tells of

a fox who possessed a sick woman and

refused to leave without a fine meal.

I become anxious when’ere I discover

myself all alone and with no security

blanket to comfort myself.

Then I remember blogland.

United Nations vs Nikki Haley

Published June 24, 2018 by Nan Mykel

If only I believed in hell…

Filosofa's Word

The United Nations says the U.S. has a poverty problem. Ambassador Nikki Haley says we don’t. Who’s right? The United Nations is indeed correct and Nikki Haley is naught but a Trump mouthpiece. Ms. Haley claims that the U.S. is “the wealthiest and freest country in the world”. Not so, Ms. Haley. The UN report acknowledges that the U.S. is among the wealthiest societies, however it also states …

“But its immense wealth and expertise stand in shocking contrast with the conditions in which vast numbers of its citizens live. About 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty. It has the highest youth poverty rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the highest infant mortality rates among comparable OECD States. Its citizens live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in…

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“Conspiracy Theorist” No Longer Has a Meaning

Published June 23, 2018 by Nan Mykel

I remember when the term “conspiracy theorist” was one of derision. Now I find myself wondering if Trump is behind the mysterious sounds driving embassy personnel in Cuba back to the USA. I do know that his reversal of Obama’s Cuban policies has resulted in more Russian activity in Cuba’s economy (The Week, Jan. 12, 2018). I keep getting the notion that we are being set up by our own titular president.

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Remember This?

U.S. Ambassador to Estonia James D. Melville Jr. Resigns in Protest

Lincoln Quote–a re-blog

Sitting On Blisters

“Elections belong to the people.

It’s their decision
If they decide
To turn their back on the fire
And burn their behinds,
Then they will just have to sit
On their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

Timely observation from Abe shared by JoHanna Massey

Did you see the strawberry moon?

Unsheltered for D’verse

Who Ordered This?

….here each morning they are required to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, in English, to the country that holds them apart from their parents.

Why must they say those words, some of the children ask at the shelter in Brownsville, on the Mexican border in Texas?

“We tell them, ‘It’s out of respect,’ ” said one employee of the facility, known as Casa Padre, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing their job.

From Washington Post via Salon.com by Nicole Karlis

This Isn’t a Poem Tho It Looks Like One…

United Nations vs Nikki Haley

“Conspiracy Theorist” No Longer Has a Meaning

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“Elections belong to the people.

It’s their decision If they decide To turn their back on the fire And burn their behinds, Then they will just have to sit On their blisters.” ― Abraham Lincoln

Timely observation from Abe shared by JoHanna Massey

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….here each morning they are required to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, in English, to the country that holds them apart from their parents.

Why must they say those words, some of the children ask at the shelter in Brownsville, on the Mexican border in Texas?

“We tell them, ‘It’s out of respect,’ ” said one employee of the facility, known as Casa Padre, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing their job.

From Washington Post via Salon.com by Nicole Karlis

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It’s their decision
If they decide
To turn their back on the fire
And burn their behinds,
Then they will just have to sit
On their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln