Pluto’s demotion from planet to dwarf planet feels a bit like moving the goal posts during a football game. Today’s poem’s subject is Pluto.
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Tag: sonnet
A slant, or approximate sonnet for today’s poem during National Poetry Month.
There is something about color that eludes definition. We put words on every color to modify it, attempt to fine-tune the description: Candy Apple Red, Teal Green. We’ve been traveling through several of the national parks in Utah this summer,…
Suburban, with a Halloween-ish Turn This week’s poem is one I usually consider a Springtime poem, given its concern about that suburban blight known as dandelions. But its a bit dark for a Springtime poem, so maybe it’s a better…
Travel is Supposed to Be Luxury? Right? Or maybe not. Maybe business travel is more like space travel than we usually admit. Maybe it’s like heading off for the moon and then standing there, at the edge of a crater.…