<![CDATA[Michael Allyn Wells - Poet Home Website - Poet Notes]]>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:59:28 -0600Weebly<![CDATA[10 Minute Stream of Consciousness]]>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:09:58 GMThttp://michaelwells.ink/poet-notes/10-minute-stream-of-consciousnessStarted taking the dog out. The rabbits came close to rifeling through the trash. Post man delivered more waste and It will soon be filling up the can. I can't see how this helps the economy. Oh wait, you were talking about the environment. The cones on the street are back. More highway work. More traffic backup. God, I'm hungry for a stake. Did they finally get that old vampire?  Drive a stake through the heart. 

I'm sure that the baseball season ending will be cause for massive depression.  I can't see a way out of it till next spring.  I'll have two dips of blackwalnut please. She called me sunshine. That hasn't happened in a while. I mean it's been pretty cloudy since she left. 

I'm hopeful that the nation gets itself back together. That will mean we have to get over you know who. I'm so ready to be over him, I can't fathom how much peace we could have if people would let lose of him.  His day will come. Not any too soon either.  Iit was light out when I last looked outside, Hope it is whne I leave.  I'm ready to get out of this place anytime.....  The birds, it's all about the birds. They are going places this fall.  More cars whitewashed as we drive about]]>
<![CDATA[New work out...]]>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:08:45 GMThttp://michaelwells.ink/poet-notes/new-work-outArt is a documentation of the human experience–of the many moments, mundane and profound, that shape our identity. At the Seraphic Review, we seek to trace back our journey through life and revisit the ethereal. Picture
​Two new poems at Seraphic Review




#NewPoems  #SeraphicReview

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<![CDATA[This & That]]>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:44:48 GMThttp://michaelwells.ink/poet-notes/this-thatExcited to report 2 new poem acceptances this past week!


Added to my books read list for the year-

15. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
16. The Paris agent by Kelly Rimmer
17. The Power of Adriene Rich: A biography by Hilary Holladay

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<![CDATA[This Years Books Read So Far]]>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 19:46:16 GMThttp://michaelwells.ink/poet-notes/this-years-books-read-so-far
  1. The Tradition - Jericho Brown
  2. Deathbed Sext - Christopher Salerno
  3. Rough Draft: A Memoir - Katy Tur
  4. Lit - Mary Karr
  5. Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
  6. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
  7. And We Stay - Jenny Hubbard
  8. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
  9. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom - Sylvia Plath
  10. The Art of Memoir - Mary Karr
  11. Bird Songs in Literature: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired - Joseph Wood Krutch
  12. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark
  13. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin
  14. The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin - Kip Wilson
* these I have finished there are a number I am still reading at this time. 



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<![CDATA[Frailty]]>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:22:48 GMThttp://michaelwells.ink/poet-notes/frailtyHow frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Sylvia Plath 


​#plathquote frailheart
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<![CDATA[I Love Sloths and other Journal Bits]]>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:20:44 GMThttp://michaelwells.ink/poet-notes/i-love-sloths-and-other-journal-bits
A few bits of my journaling ~
  • April 1 - again I signed up for the daily Grind. Lost track of how many months but it's at least 18 and probably a few more.
  • April 1 ~Toyed with making a poem movie today from one of my published poems. Still trying to figure out iMovie. Will figure it ot at some point. Or have my Granddaughter help me LOL.
  • April 3 - There are times the atmospheric pressure is pushing my temples closer together and I could scream out something that would get us all in trouble and we'd lose our recess privledges.
  • April 5 -  Word List Today includes:  conspicous, blue satin, mannequins, mongrel, insomni, infintesimal, periods, classical, ice-hearted, blank, feverish
  • April 6 - "resist what you must and you must resist"
  • April 11 - "I carry with me stuff I'm not talking about"
  • April  12 -  Lots of Prayers Today
  • April 12- Missed just one question on Anthropology quiz
  • April 17 - Sloths rule. They look so peacefil and cute   

#JournalBits

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<![CDATA[February 17th, 2023]]>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:35:23 GMThttp://michaelwells.ink/poet-notes/february-17th-2023“Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life,” Virginia Woolf 
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