Loose Leaf Notes

1. I recently stalked a hummingbird in my yard. A stake-out on Saturday produced sightings of three different kinds of hummingbirds, including a ruby-throated one that I wasn’t able to photograph because the greyish one kept dive bombing it from the feeder. I learned that Hummingbirds are extremely territorial and aggressive.

2. The hummingbird also tried to land on my flower print bathing suit that was drying on a porch chair.

3. That’s not red dye in the feeder. I added a squirt of black cherry stevia liquid to the water.

4. I found a cool new site described as “Mocking the GOP 24/7 Political Humor, Limericks & Satirical Poetry By Madeleine Begun Kane.” See HER HERE.

5. Sunday’s post on Madeleine site reads: Dear Donald, it’s Sunday today. / How was church? Did you mask-lessly pray? / Oh that’s right — church is just / A photo-op must. / “We want GOD!”? A fake-pious display. –

6. I also got turned on to a twitter poet by a friend. His name is Brian Bilston and he’s been compared to Bansky and is known as the Poet Laureate of Twitter. “It started with a tweet. I never thought it would come to this. I’m not even sure it was a poem. More of a play on words, each one carefully selected to fit into the 140-character constraint of a tweet,” he said.

7. Here’s Bilston’s twitter poem on Trump – Skew, spew, barmey hair-do. Cut throat, bigot and smug.

8. This was an actual comment I made on a Facebook post this week: “Right up my alley cat who loves to pour cups of milk metaphors because meta is beta phor you.”

9. “Do not correct a fool because he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.” Unknown

10. The sky is a blue canvas / for the tallest sunflowers / A hummingbird whirs / in search of bright colors / Leaves glide from trees / like swallowtails surfing / Bird calls grow faint / and unconvincing… Read Summer Exhale in its entirety HERE.

11. My poem “Goldfinches” was published on Blue Ridge Green Burial Site newsletter. See HERE. 

12. The hummingbird could be called a whirlybird. It whirs more than it hums, and you hear it before you see it.

13. I want to say ‘that’s a wrap’ but it was actually a tamale HERE.

____________Thirteen Thursday