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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·9 hours ago

Rat Race

We have to pay the mortgage soon One third of that is tax We have to pay the day care, too We never can relax My wife and I each…

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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·Jan 28

Wearing the Pants

When I was growing up, I went to church — A church that preached that women should wear skirts Or dresses only — look the woman’s part — Wear blouses only, never pants and shirts. We also learned that sex was bad outside Of holy matrimony — genuflects Before your God…

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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·Jan 23

Typhoon

A spot of warmth, tight twisting, rising air Atop an ocean, sun-warmed. Rising air Pulls water, molecule by molecule, Reforming droplets in the rising air Until the ocean Fibonacci spirals…

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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·Jan 18

The Tired Defender

In nothingness the universe began — Asymmetried some 14 billion years Ago into cascades of galaxies. Must I defend this truth, reality? Upon this earth, from molecules emerged Evolving life from single cells to apes With microscopes, who can write poetry. Must I defend this truth, reality? A human mind…

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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·Dec 26, 2022

Our Vampire Lord

The vampire living on top of the hill Has ruled our town with terror centuries. He tells us that he keeps us safe and will As long as he exists — and we must please Him, feed his thirst or, we’ve learned, he will spill More blood than we have…

Narrative Poetry

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Narrative Poetry

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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·Dec 23, 2022

Cowards and Tragic Heroes

The coward destroys, despises, and hates — Denies all virtue, knowledge, charity — Empowers only hooded hangmen, debates Nobody, certain he is right — he’ll flee From love and risk and pain at any cost, And will not suffer any suffering To bring success, for that condemns —…

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Published in The Metamodern Poet

·Oct 26, 2022

Earning Your Poetic License

You may be wondering by now why I have primarily been discussing the formal elements of poetry writing. …

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Earning Your Poetic License

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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·Oct 26, 2022

The Orchis Enthusiast

At last, she had it all — a maid to clean And cook, a nanny who could watch the kids, And cash enough for her to at last ween Herself from any kind of work. Her bids To empty herself of the misery Of doing anything at all soon…

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Published in Thyme and Time Again

·Oct 25, 2022

Finding Oneself at Home

A lyric on the radio and I Am reconciled to my fate to live In Dallas and to find it home. Yes, why Not find my happiness, my want to…

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Published in The Metamodern Poet

·Oct 25, 2022

Poetry, the Quadrivium, and the Trivium

The Trivium is part of a Medieval educational system that was designed to provide the student with a complete education. The Trivium is made up of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The other part of that educational system was called the Quadrivium — arithmetic (number), geometry, astronomy, and music. You may…

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Poetry, the Quadrivium, and the Trivium

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Troy Camplin

Troy Camplin

I am the author of “Diaphysics” and the novel “Hear the Screams of the Butterfly.” I am a consultant, poet, playwright, novelist, and interdisciplinary scholar.

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