These photos were taken on or near the University of Washington’s Tacoma campus.
Author: Debi
Poem: Walking meditation
walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
the sidewalk sprouts dandelion greens
and clover
in the cracks
resume
walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
with eyes closed the trees sing
listen
to the shaft of light
resume
walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
hush
hush
hush
pause
resume
walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
breathing breath of breezes
inhaling
slowly
one breath
two
resume
walking
slowly
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SPAM poetry
I got completely distracted this evening after dinner from things I should be working on and instead went digging through my email inbox to see what might be poetically lurking there in the subject lines. Hopefully pursuing a bit of nonsense will help me find my way back into actual sense. Here’s hoping, anyway. 😉 So, I give to you ….
A Grad Student’s “In” Box
Have you …
Been MIA again?
I was wrong about the …
Growing in Faith, Hope and Love
What Would You Do?
He changed my life
Did I tell you?
STRANGE THINGS
Hello This Just In!
I’m “totes” voting for
Fragile love
Grab it now while it’s free!
Question Your LIFE
We’d like to introduce you to these …
Love is …
Fear
…. Are You Interested??
WEATHER IS FOREVER
We can’t take it
we can help
I begin again
We’d like to introduce you to …
Ravishing beauty
Scorpions and Gods
Literary Zen Training
“OLD MAN” THIS IS MY LAND
Never “build it and they will come”
Why on earth would …
Creature comforts
MONSTER OUTSIDE
Experience the Wonderfully Weird
We are THAT Family
There’s no time like the present
Live it up with the best long lost treasure
a cool “mind tool”
Free Love Bite
Eat THIS
Request Disturbed
We’re SO close!
Take control of your Day
Seriously Don’t agonize
EFFECTIVE PARENTING TIP
Sell your heart
pure gold …
Going, going …
When passion sings
FROM OUT OF MY WINDOW
DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN
Congratulations!
You have a new … [Last Chance}
You Get the …
Do you want a …
or …
Take a minute to explore
Highs and Lows
You have a new …
“Having It All”
A Secret Meeting
from the Fire, the flames, and you
One more night
How You Can …
get my first novel
There is No Spoon
Mysterious New Human
Creation Transformation
JESUS WAS A TEENAGE …
Drat! I sent the wrong link!
THINGS I HAVE SEEN
What the heck
holy crap …
you’re Batman
That’s correct
A Wicked Sorceress
Conversion Nothing.
Everything.
the stars reveal your faith?
Your night just got better
Sometimes your family won’t understand Critical Thinking
Graveside Congratulations!
… I’M HERE!
Last Chance!
We’d like to introduce you to these …
Whims and follies
Don’t Miss
Moonlight Epiphany
A garden
the best sorts of relationships
Song of love
Are We Happy Yet?
Fairs, Film Fests, and Ghosts
I had to stop watching
Short ‘N Simple
I’m tired of being a Christian
Building the 21st-Century
Graduate Student
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Poem: Nature’s Heartache
The following was written as a response poem in opposites to this earlier poem, A Day in the Country. I suppose I could’ve titled this one “Twilight in the City” but it just felt like it was such a heartfelt cry of woe from the standpoint of the natural environment.
twilight in the city
attendant to the mingling common
a certainty of disenchantment
frigid waste of dusk
the insignificance
the confusion
the familiarity of milling downtown
a civilized behaved seriousness
possessed of costume
an autumn drought is
an uncharged corruption
loosened over granite
asphalt, a numbing cradle
soulful inertia
discharged in concrete
intellectual chill
distastefully troubled by
the hot failure of
the stagnant breath
the blind and sulky silence
of the city
each crowd indefinite
obliged and foul
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Poem: Nature is medicinal
The lefthand side is a cento (collage poem) made from phrases in Emerson’s essay, “Nature.” The righthand side is an overflow and reaction to the cento that I pieced together using Google’s search function as the source for words/ideas. This can be read in three different ways. The left side as a poem of its own, the right side as a poem of its own, and both together (alternately) as a poem together. Would love to hear if this format is interesting at all. Just messing around. 🙂
Nature is Medicinal
by Debi
nature is medicinal
[the healing properties of amethyst quartz]
the air is a cordial of incredible virtue
[cordially invite you to the dance of reality
where virtues and vices play acoustically]
let him look at the stars
[look to the stars not your feet]
the tinge of an unusual sky
[bloody streaks with diamonds]
like a new soul, they renew the body
[not an old soul in a young body
but vigor reinvigorated]
we are never tired
[no longer tired of being alone, tired of life,
of waiting]
so long as we can see far enough
[the horizon is always at eye level]
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Early October 2015
Memories Happen Without Warning
“Memories Happen Without Warning”
Ransom Note Poem + Collage
by Debi
Text Only:
“Memories Happen Without Warning”
by Debi
A New Morning
Can change YOUR future
into a Simple Beautiful Place
when you focus your gaze and soul & time
on what really matters.
MEMORIES HAPPEN WITHOUT WARNING!
Delicately explore
the agony and joy
of being human.
All around us is BEAUTY
SO SUBLIME.
A new way of living
will open …
IT’S NOT TOO LATE!
Make every day count.
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A glimpse into my email inbox
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Never “build it and they will come” This gets my highest recommend Our Farmhouse Favorites Even the Sotol Believes Up to 94% off Study Bibles Job Offer …. Are You Interested?? Today only: 15% off all plus-size We’re live … here’s your link The Autumn Book please add me Take control of your posts It’s a new day Email Exclusive Shop Crayola Day of Deals Notice: Your Account Statement Sponsors We are THAT Family CHRISTMAS EVE 1996 Get Your Cash As Fast As Tomorrow I was wrong about the … Growing in Faith, Hope and Love Digital Publishing What Would You Do? Discounts on Heating & Cooling your Final Instructions Conundrums Royalty Payment Notification Black and Pink 72 Hour Sale Way to go! Your paper is buzzing! Eat THIS Latest issue Confirmed Subscription Your Papa John’s Online Order Sunday Journal Frame your view with … How to find For Sale by Owner The Dollar Stretcher We’d like to introduce you to these … Your Daily Question Your Exclusive Invite THE REST OF MY LIFE Fear Did I tell you? Updates to the User Agreement We’ve got you covered with VA loans Your 4 Free Meals Are Waiting … Not Falling Far awesomesauce! J STRANGE THINGS Hello Autumn This Just In! Most Popular Recipes this Week 365 Less Things Mini Mission I’m “totes” voting for Bernie Black Pearl White Pearl Reminder: You have 1 profile visit Office Appropriate Lazy Sunday Fragile love Grab it now while it’s free! Love is … DO YOU KNOW THESE … “UNIVERSE” [PRINT THIS] The Product Launch I begin again Experience the Wonderfully Weird There’s no time like the present Live it up with the best phone options Three fingers the long lost treasure that change … a cool “mind tool” Need Extra Cash? Here’s how … Generate Potential Leads! Dirt Our special sale ends tonight Wilderness The End. Freewrite Reverse Hearing Loss in 17 Days A PLACE WHERE I AM HIS SON Brandtastic Event Must-Make 30-Minute Dinners Extreme Sxx Request Disturbed, Scorpions and Gods … COMING TO BENAROYAL HALL We’d like to introduce you to these Browse top cable TV providers Lift Up Your Day We’re Giving You 4 Free Meals Love Bite “OLD MAN” THIS IS MY LAND The Shipping is On Us Get Paid for Your Old Phone Re: Vacancy for the post “Why on earth would Bernie go the … MONSTER OUTSIDE We’re SO close! Seriously Don’t agonize Translucent Where are You From? EFFECTIVE PARENTING TIP Sell your heart Timeless Denim You could add to your MBA studies This book is pure gold – don’t miss Haaaapy Biiiirthdayyy to Dianna … Going, going … WHAT MISS TENNESSEE GOT WRONG When passion sings Make-ahead snacks to eat all week FROM OUT OF MY WINDOW DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN Watch a marketing master in action Plan now for spring color You Could Get $500K Term Life Congratulations! You have a new … There’s no time like the present [Last Chance} Save on Max Lucado Travel Preparations The Afterthoughts Weekly Wrap-Up Your eBay invoice for September Your secret to jaw-dropping curves LIVE Healing Circle Bitterroot It’s Our Birthday, But You Get the … Do you want a home or … Bathroom Remodels on a Budget Take a minute to explore wireless Highs and Lows Leading Lady Action Required Your Official Offer Update from Mayor Nancy Backus Congratulations! 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Facebook Ads alert This Week & Next Week Hottest Fall Trends + Shapewear = 2958 but We’d like to introduce you to these … Your ad has been approved Whim and follies Your Stray Cat Club Invitation Has … Trending Recipes Don’t Miss It Moonlight Epiphany A garden the best sorts of relationships Song of love Are We Happy Yet? Fairs, Film Fests and Ghosts I had to stop watching Short ‘N Simple One-bowl rice dishes I’m tired of being a Christian Building the 21st-Century Learner Once Month Nature Journal Graduate Student Blog Keeping a Bird Life List Outdoor Mom’s Journal Early Fall
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Poem: Our land
the fire burned
burnt burns still burning
meanwhile
memories
vanish vanishes still vanishing
in the ash, in the dust
our view now charcoal
(should we use charcoal to draw landscapes?)
the firestorm
eaten eats still eating:
dreams
hopes
loves
lives
forests
fauna
can we ever
own
the land? hills? meadows? trees? creek?
the wildfire
sparked sparks still sparking
and
then
and then
i t ’ s
g o n e
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Poem: A Lover
Cento (collage poem)
Source Text: Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a lover
of uncontained and immortal beauty.
I expand
and live in the warm day
like corn and melons.
The active enchantment
reaches my dust.
All parts of nature conspire.
They nod to me, and I to them.
In the woods, a perpetual youth
is new to me and old.
A wild delight runs through
the best moments of life.
Debi Taylor-Hough 