Saturday morning.
The sun is hot.
Children kick a ball on the school playing fields, their animated voices filling the mid morning air.
A dog barks.
I enter the graveyard, it’s stones marking my way home.
Saturday Morning
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Humans Have Shorter Attention Span Than Goldfish Thanks To Smartphones
Thanks to my friend, Brian for drawing the below article to my attention. According to a study by Microsoft, the attention span of the average human has dropped from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2015. According to scientists a goldfish can hold a thought in it’s brain for 9 seconds. The decline is, if one is to believe the research, due to the growth in the use of smartphones, which began in 2000.
Now what am I doing? What is the point of this post? Oh look a fly is buzzing around the room. How interesting. Let me just check that text. No, wait I will check my email instead!
For the article please visit, (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11607315/Humans-have-shorter-attention-span-than-goldfish-thanks-to-smartphones.html).
Butterflies
Beautiful butterflies flitting in and out of my life,
Here,for a moment, then gone in a trice.
An interlude of pleasure, thence you hurry away,
Lovely creature will you not stay?
Of Roots And Wreckage – A Guest Post By Author Laura A Lord
Many thanks to Laura A Lord for the below guest post. I have pre-ordered Laura’s latest book, “Of Roots And Wreckage” and look forward to reading it on it’s release in June 2015. For Laura’s website please visit, (http://lauraalord.com/).
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Laura A. Lord is the author of numerous collections of vignettes and poetry and one awesome children’s book about a T-Rex screwing up her entire day. It’s absolutely a true story.
Laura’s work has been featured in The Beacon, The Collegian, Whirl with Words, Tipsy Lit, Precipice, Scary Mommy, The Powder Room, The Reverie Journal, and Massacre Magazine.
Her newest collection, Of Roots and Wreckage, focuses heavily on where she grew up. Split into three sections, this collection explores the ideas of “roots” and hometowns, of people and change, of aging and death.
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Here is a selection from Of Roots and Wreckage:
Summerfest
Summer’s heat made a hazy
playground visage of the street –
lightening muted colors
from the limp rag plastic signs.
Dead breeze.
Fried grease.
The gum stuck to the bottom of
my shoe and snaps with
a smack with every step like
it were still stuck between the
plump red lips of that over-dressed
old woman with her small wire
cart and her flamingo pink umbrella,
with her life packed into every square
crevasse of skin mapped out in
the wrinkles of days past
and I am young and stupid here,
with my skirt too short and my flat
belly exposed, so that the bare
expanse of my legs is a railroad
track straight to the heart of the
issue with fourteen year old girls
and their ignorant lust.
The world hangs heavy and wags
a finger in my direction to lure
me over to this place where the cream
has melted into the asphalt and
the balloons are deflated piles
of rubbery mass on the ground and the
gum smacks on my shoe, while
that battle-axe woman,
that ancient grin
with its black toothed gaping maw,
is welcoming me in to this carnival,
this celebration,
of my future scrawl.
© Laura A. Lord 2015
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Poet Charles Bukowski’s Last Poetry Reading
Poet Charles Bukowski’s last poetry reading, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB6IyLTvB7M&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs). The event contains much bawdiness interspersed with the odd poem. If you enjoy Bukowski’s work the performance is worth watching, however much of the performance consists of exchanges between Bukowski and the audience, rather than the poet reading his poetry.
The Package Arrives!
On Wednesday evening I collected a package from the local drop off point for one of the leading courier firms. The box contained copies of my book, “Dalliance: A Collection of Poetry and Prose” (http://www.amazon.com/Dalliance-collection-poetry-prose-Morris-ebook/dp/B00QQVJC7E). The parcel should have been delivered while I was at home to receive it. However, the courier company having the laudable desire to enhance my physical fitness chose to leave it at the drop off point thereby necessitating the use of Shanks Pony. I am eternally grateful to this philanthropic firm for their efforts in improving my physical health – thank you unnamed courier company!
Leaving aside the public spirited actions of the courier firm, I was delighted, on reaching home to open my parcel and see “Dalliance” nestling in amongst assorted packaging. It felt great to hold the product of my labour and know that I had created something which will, I hope provide pleasure and entertainment to readers.
I have been distributing copies of “Dalliance” to family, friends and one neighbour who had expressed an interest in reading my writing. In addition I left a copy on the book shelves in my local station’s waiting room. Casually I approached the shelves and unobtrusively placed “Dalliance” on the top shelf. I then sauntered towards the door intent on catching my train.
“Is this your poetry?” a gentleman said.
So much for my cunningly designed plan to unobtrusively leave copies of “Dalliance” in public places for people to find and (hopefully) read!
“Yes. If you read it, I hope you enjoy doing so”, I said exiting the waiting room.
Have any fellow authors left copies of their books in public places? Have any of this blog’s readers found a book which you know or believe was left by a writer for you to find?
Kevin
K Morris reading his poem ‘Owl’.
Me reading my poem, ‘Owl’ which can be found in ‘Dalliance; a collection of poetry and prose’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD29wEmIywY
K Morris reading his poem ‘Mirror’.
Me reading my poem ‘Mirror’ which can be found in ‘Dalliance; a collection of poetry and prose’, available in the Amazon Kindle Store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_t4YD1fAlo
K Morris reading his poem ‘Midnight’.
Me reading my poem ‘Midnight’, which can be found in in ‘Dalliance; a collection of poetry and prose’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bidx3qZ6RZA
You can get ‘Dalliance’ here for the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dalliance-collection-poetry-prose-Morris-ebook/dp/B00QQVJC7E and here for the US: http://www.amazon.com/Dalliance-collection-poetry-prose-Morris-ebook/dp/B00QQVJC7E
Guest Post Submission Guidelines (New Page Added)
I have created a new page regarding guest post submissions which can be found here, http://newauthoronline.com/guest-post-submissions/).
I welcome guest posts, however please read the submission guidelines prior to getting in contact.
Many thanks,
Kevin
K Morris - Poet 