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captjack
Member since August 10, 2012
Member for 13 years, 9 months
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Midnight Mission
The bathroom quest in the wee hours
not to be taken lightly.
No lights please!
An attempt to preserve what’s
left of my retinas.
I feel my way out of bed and along the walls to
that porcelain oasis in the night.
Then "Eureka" and a sigh of relief.
Mission accomplished!
Dry feet an indication of accuracy within
a qualifying standard.
But daylight inspection will be
the better judge of marksmanship.
And now to retrace those careful
steps to that waiting bed
captjack’s timeline
- August 2022
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10 WedAnniversary
10 years of membership
- August 2017
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10 ThuAnniversary
5 years of membership
- May 2015
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02 SatReceived a critique
on Midnight Mission from @emeka ozurumba
"you know that word beauty is ban, or hated in some places, so I'll give this more than beauty , let me say inanimate, is this not beauties forlorn name --to come?" -
01 FriReceived a critique
on Midnight Mission from @raj
"a fun write for sure ..making the reader walk the way to & fro..." - April 2015
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30 ThuReceived a critique
on Midnight Mission from @judyanne
"Lol - except for the missing the porcelain bit..... Definitely the no lights thing - I actually keep my eyes closed :) So annoying that increased need for the bathroom in the middle of the night as we get old lol a fun…" -
30 Thu
- November 2014
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01 Sat
- October 2014
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31 Fri
- August 2013
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10 SatAnniversary
One year of membership
- December 2012
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19 WedFirst critique offered
on "COLD DAY DESTINATION" by @scribbler
- August 2012
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10 FriFirst publication
Shaggy Brown Teddy Bear (since unpublished)
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10 FriJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
Retired. Have been writing poetry or my version there of, on and off for the past 40 odd years. I had a few pieces published in the Literary Magazine of St. Thomas University in Miami in 1989. That was the extent of my putting anything out in public until now.
Location: NW Georgia (Fairmount) by way of South and North FLA, USA
Favorite Poets
Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Carl Sandburg and Ezra Pound. I like these the best but really enjoy many many others like Whitman
Emerson
Whittier and Longfellow.
Recent Work
Midnight Mission
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Dead Lover’s Lament
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A Fast Food Day
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Friends Just Resting
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Infectious
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A Father’s Daughter
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Old Cards and Memories
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Skipping Stones
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Take The Trip?
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Flame
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Contest Wins
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Workshops
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| "The Right Word" | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2014-11-18 | Concluded |
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