Hilarious re-blog–Go to her site for more!
Published July 2, 2018 by Nan Mykel
Careless
Published July 2, 2018 by Nan MykelI 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, 29th June 2018
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 MykelFEB. 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 ·
Lincoln Quote–a re-blog
Published July 1, 2018 by Nan Mykel
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?
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
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 MykelUNSHELTERED
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 MykelA 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 MykelIf only I believed in hell…
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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