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Photo finish Friday (and haiku): “Feeding”

Grackle and woodpecker at a suet feeder.
Grackle and woodpecker vie for suet.

Grackle challenges /

The world in a winged moment. /

Woodpecker defends.

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Haiku to you Thursday: “Reigns in Tears”

The sky reigns in tears /

A billion trillion stars /

Beacons for the past.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Couplet”

There once was a writer of poems

Who had a side job fixing homes.

While making a repair

He tore pants and underwear

And displayed a couplet best left alone.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Absurdity”

There one day was a poet of the absurd

Who one day gave her word.

She’d tell it straight one day

Come what May

Or the one day she became a bird.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Adverse circumstances”

There once was a writer of verse

Who had a wish so perverse.

He put pen to paper

And hoped he’d become Satyr,

But what he became was even much worse.

He had hooves, horns, and some hide

Enough to frighten his would-be bride.

When he glanced in the mirror,

He couldn’t have looked any queerer

Even with the nannies by his side.

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Photo finish Friday (photo and poem): “The Big Bang”

photo of gun deaths in US versus other developed nations.

Thoughts and prayers

Thoughts and prayers

Are like underwear —

They can keep some crap from spilling.

But when they fill

There is no thrill

When no one does any repairing.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Mars Bar”

There once was a writer from Mars

Who fell to Earth into a bar.

He searched for inspiration

In his makeshift destination.

And found writers who hadn’t gotten very far.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Captured pun”

There once was a writer of puns

who was forever and a day on the run.

English teachers in pursuit,

they felt he was in cahoots

with a jailer, a brailler, and a nun.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Lady of Pain”

There once was a writer from Spain

Whose career was going down the drain.

His wife was Basque

And a plumber whose task

Had been to keep him afloat with no pain.

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Monday morning writing joke: “Limerick as a second language”

There once was a poet from Shanghai

Who wanted to give limericks a try.

But instead of sounding naughty

Or even slightly bawdy,

They sounded like the code of a spy.

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