What Happened to December
I have no idea where December went but it's gone and frankly, I'm not unhappy about the closing of 2022. However, we had a fabulous...
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P Tyrer
- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
Perhaps It's the Season
I've been writing limericks and other fun poems lately. It's stress-free writing and so enjoyable! A Clerihew As Agent James Bond, Sean...
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P Tyrer
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Dark Poems
The Chamber Magazine will be publishing a couple of my "dark" poems this month. I'm not posting them here because one deals with anxiety,...
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P Tyrer
- Nov 4, 2022
- 1 min
Clerihew Challenge
Metrical Clerihew Poetry Challenge | Society of Classical Poets Just posted a clerihew for the challenge: As Agent James Bond, Sean...
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P Tyrer
- Oct 22, 2022
- 1 min
Cowboy Jack & Jill - For My Grandsons
Cowboy Jack and his gal Jill drove their cattle up the hill up the mountain steep and high cool fresh water is their guide. Cattle know...
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P Tyrer
- Oct 11, 2022
- 1 min
Spoken Word Poetry
If you're not yet familiar with spoken-word poetry, you're in for an exciting ride. Taken from the ancient tradition of oral...
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P Tyrer
- Oct 7, 2022
- 2 min
Coronado's Expedition--No Gold?
Last evening, I attended a lecture at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas that made me revise some of what I learned...
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P Tyrer
- Oct 4, 2022
- 1 min
Car Museum Gets Big Press
Phoebe Wall Howard, one of the professional writers presenting sessions at the Okoboji Writers' Retreat has a new article about the car...
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P Tyrer
- Oct 2, 2022
- 1 min
Tell the Truth, but Slanted
In Sunday School this morning a friend was retelling of how she was required to memorize a poem each week in her junior high English...
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P Tyrer
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
Remembering Okoboji - Solace
I remember the water; I remember the paths I remember the pain of falling on my Way to the cottage and then to the hall I remember the...
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P Tyrer
- Sep 29, 2022
- 1 min
Poetry Circle Tonight - Come on Down to Burrowing Owl, Canyon. 7-8 pm
Limericks started as clever outtakes in which folks in the Irish pub would hollder "Come on down to Limerick" and join in the fun....
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P Tyrer
- Sep 28, 2022
- 1 min
Remembering Okoboji
Clouds make shadows on the lake, A mirror to the blue-sky rippling Against the shore. At evening The deer creeps in from the field Slowly...
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P Tyrer
- Sep 27, 2022
- 1 min
Jodi Thomas' New Book: The Wishing Quilt
Last Saturday I stopped by the Burrowing Owl for a chat with Jodi who was there autographing copies of her latest novel, The Wishing...
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P Tyrer
- Sep 26, 2022
- 1 min
Okoboji Writers' Retreat
I've just returned from the Okoboji Writers' Retreat on the lake in Iowa, and I am jazzed about all the writers I communed with, sessions...
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