Such a good re-blog!
OOPS! Where did it go? Too rushed to do a good job on Election Day–for instance, trying to get my tv working again.
Jill Dennison Re-blog
Published November 3, 2020 by Nan MykelReblog
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Trying out her wings-Reblog
Published April 27, 2018 by Nan MykelWanted to share this experience.
Pain killers did not play a part in my death
You
Featured, light fizuring definition, as star
You captured my appetite in a jar
Left it to pickle sour
We dissected my heart and ate slivers
Outside, like a fevered tongue
Merrymakers ran and dragged
Confetti and plastic cups of eels
Young girls with birthing stretch marks, shaking double chins
If they had three lifetimes it would still not be enough
To celebrate their unfolding life of cards
Queen of Hearts, she sat watching oragami crowds
Easier to be cloud cover, sensing rain in the air
The quiet of needing to say nothing, emptied of small talk
She didn’t need to ever attend a party again
That was another version of her out there in time
Straining to be a light bulb
Her long dangling line
Fishing for fragments of who she had been
How did a wizz, bang, bang…
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An American’s declaration of shame – Reblog
Published July 5, 2017 by Nan MykelGo get ’em! I’m re-blogging.
Today is Independence Day in the United States, and across this great land we mark the occasion with the iconic images of parades, fireworks, waving flags and blackened weenies on the grill. But one thing you rarely see is the actual image of what this holiday is all about. There it is up above, the Declaration of Independence.
Penned in 1776, the Declaration of Independence set forth principles that should make every American proud.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
At 61, I’m old enough to have seen a lot of bad moments in my nation’s history. Like many Americans, I’ve endured politicians I disliked, along with policies with which I did not agree. But until the ascendancy of Donald J. Trump…
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