Purloin Like a Poet

It's a bird, no, a word; it's a plane, no, a poem; it's Superman, no, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious passion fish and poem frites, wrapped in paperless print, and bound in a panoply of Poemflit, for your enjoyment, and also as a hellish hiccup of presque vu haecceity. #APoemADay lets sanity hold sway. Poemflit #2 in the Purloin Like a Poet series. "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo" - Don Marquis I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

Spring Fourth is the #GlobalPoetryWritingMonth #APoemADay pamphlet in the Purloin Like a Poet series. As Marianne Moore wrote: "Poetry. I too, dislike it: There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle." Yet, we are interested in it! I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

Seventhly Sloth is the seventh poemflit in the Purloin Like a Poet series. As John Cage said: "I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

Eight Ball is the eighth poemflit in the Purloin Like a Poet series. A poem a day keeps the mind trotting along merrily. Like Oscar Wilde said: All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

This is Poemflit #9 in the Purloin Like a Poet series. Enter an imagined universe of magical realism through the lenses of #APoemADay accompanied by thirty original paintings.Cat burglars do not plagiarize; they praise by purloining titillating tidbits that tickle in memory of their prey! I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

This is Poemflit #11 in the Purloin Like a Poet series. Explore the world through thirty #APoemADay-s and thirty original #APaintingADay-s.Let our melting times not be remembered as mankind's eleventh hour. Art may soothe the savage beast but makes the elephant blush. I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

This is Poemflit #10 in the Purloin Like a Poet series. Visit a small universe of magical wordplay with #APoemADay, accompanied by thirty original illustrations. I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

Three is a Waltz is the third pamphlet in the Purloin Like a Poet series. They state that everybody has at least one book in them, and that is where it should probably stay. But let me say: wait, it's not too late for the opsipoeth in you to shine through. As Giles Lytton Strachey said (and this may be the only thing that he is remembered for, at least on the internet - this, and his splendid russet beard, as painted by some other almost-forgotten artist):"It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet." I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

This is Poemflit #12 in the Purloin Like A Poet series, a collection of #APoemADay paired with original illustrations. I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.

High Five is the fifth pamphlet in the Purloin Like a Poet series. Poetry, a small parachute in the big golden pond. "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." - Leonard Cohen I scribble , dribble and doodle. I sculpt in clay for bronzing; paint anything under the sun; write children's stories and illustrate them. I read a lot. When I'm not in the studio covered in paint; working on a new picture story; doodling cartoons, or reading; I reluctantly go to the gym. (In the basement, now!) Or travel to far-off places. (BC) I once lived in a rainforest. Once upon a time I worked as an engineer on secret projects. And also underground in a gold mine. I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA. Relatively speaking. I can wiggle my ears. I have two cats.