Welcome to the April 2013 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry as we celebrate Universal Poetry Month with several poets who have written poetry about poetry.   Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are but a few of the many poets who have written about that which we love to write and share – [...]

Welcome to the March 2013 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry as we continue to celebrate our March theme of Imagination with a poet who epitomizes the places we can go with and within our Imagination. Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel, was born on March 2, 1904 and died September 24, 1991. But his words and his art [...]

Welcome to the February 2013 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry as we continue to celebrate the Month of Love by featuring a poem about love written by W.H. Auden who was born in this month of February — February 21, 1907. He died on September 29, 1973. Auden’s work, both poetry and prose, covers a wide [...]

Lady of the jury, I wish to disprove the prevailing false belief that rock music is based on drugs and sex.  True, perhaps at one time but rock music is different now.  Rock music is now performed by hard working intellectuals with blazing intellectual pursuits and I’m now going to play for you a piece [...]

Howdy and Happy Valentine’s Day!  I hope y’all are fixin’ to change into your Valentine’s Day-Go-To-Orgy clothes, which are just like your Sunday-Go-To-Meeting clothes, except for considerably more leather and under-boobage because this ain’t the Grammy’s.  It’s not even the CMA’s and you’re hangin’ from a pine tree by your knees, sun is shinin’ through [...]

Those Jesus Freaks Well, they’re friendly but The shit they believe Has got their minds all shut An’ they don’t even care When the church takes a cut Ain’t it bleak when you got so much nothin’ – Frank Zappa, “The Meek Shall Inherit Nothin’” It’s not like I’m going to start quoting Sugar Bates [...]

i find myself in the position of having to make up words to describe my music because i don’t fit the given categories very well. once you start making up words, then you are in the position of having to explain yourself. it runs against the grain for me to do that because i express [...]

Welcome to the January 2013 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry, the first of our new year, as we celebrate,  in Pick-Apart style, the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe on January 19, 1809 in Boston; died October 7, 1849). We’re so glad you’ve joined us to celebrate the occasion in a Pick-Apart way. The [...]

Welcome to the December 2012 Edition of “Pick-Apart Poetry” as we celebrate Christmas in a Pick-Apart kind of way. ‘Tis the Season for Love and Peace and Good Cheer. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! And in the spirit of Christmas Day, we celebrate poetically as we select our 25 words from the three Christmas songs [...]

Holiday greetings Poets! Today we bring you an American favorite for you poetic muse! We bring you the Christmas charm of artist Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell was born in New York City on February 3, 1894. Talented at a young age, he received his first commission at age 17.In 1916, he created the first of [...]

THE BIG HOLLY JOLLY COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS Is Here! Tell Us In Your Own Words In Any Poetic Format You Like Just What You Do During These Last Few Days Till Christmas! Heart This blog if you like us as much as we like you! Let Your Christmas Count Down Begin! var hupso_services_t=new Array(“Twitter”,”Facebook”,”Google Plus”,”Linkedin”,”StumbleUpon”,”Digg”,”Reddit”,”Bebo”,”Delicious”); [...]

Hello And Welcome once again to Simple Sunday! Today we want to focus on Art That’s created with the Child in us all in mind. So today we share with you The children’s art of LIZ MILLER About The Artist Liz Miller is a part-time artist from Boulder, Colorado. In her free time she pursues [...]

Send us a heart if you “Like” this Blog Thank you for sharing the day with us! We hope we provided your muse with Poetic Inspiration! Send us a heart to let us know You “Liked” what we created today! All our regards, Thematic Attic! var hupso_services_t=new Array(“Twitter”,”Facebook”,”Google Plus”,”Linkedin”,”StumbleUpon”,”Digg”,”Reddit”,”Bebo”,”Delicious”); var hupso_toolbar_size_t=”medium”;var hupso_counters_lang=”en_US”;var hupso_url_t=”http://www.friendburst.com/blog/100610/celebrate-the-music-in-you-and-your-poetrythematic-attic/”;var hupso_title_t=”Celebrate the [...]

Welcome to the November Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry as we look forward to December and the Holidays and a brand new year coming up so very soon. We’re so glad you’ve joined us in celebrating this wonderful time of year in a Pick-Apart way. The idea of Pick-Apart Poetry is to select 25 words from [...]

…………………………………………………..…………………………………………………….. . . . . . . . . . . Fred Meck, the Mailman . . Aachoo Voo, Private Eye, Episode Eight Nov 24, 2012 I remember waking up on a Thursday morning and the whole damned world was in black and white. Black and white, as in a black and white movie. As [...]

. . . . . . . * * Aachoo Voo,  Private Eye Episode Seven . . . So, I’m sitting there watching “Howdy Doody” and eating a banana sandwich, when there came a sharp knock on the front door. I wasn’t expecting anybody. I had taken the last three days off to recuperate from [...]

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Welcome to the October 2012 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry as we celebrate Autumn in a short poetry way. September and October seem to have been rushing by and it’s hard to believe that Halloween is already next week and the elections just a couple of weeks away. Then on to November and December Holidays and [...]

FOR I LOVE THEM ONE AND ALL There are so many poets I remember and recall, too many to single out just one, for I love them one and all as they touch my heart in such a variety of ways, tugging at my emotions and captivating my days. I love the poets of the [...]

BEFORE THEY FADE AWAY Reaching out into that sometimes rather blank space, I try to catch them, to make them mine before they fade away, words and lines tumbling and tripping and falling down and making little sense all by themselves; just random thoughts almost begging for company, to be put together into something new, [...]