https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/user-66-michael-dunn Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:10:22 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-6188-book-signing-by-michael-dunn-at-barnes-noble https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-6188-book-signing-by-michael-dunn-at-barnes-noble                               Michael Dunn will be at the Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Francis Scott Key Mall, 5500 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, Maryland on November 10, 2007 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM signing Beyond Door's Threshold Light, New & Selected Poems 1995-2005.         Mic Beyond Door's Threshold Light New & Selected Poems 1995-2005 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:19:55 GMT /section-440-beyond-door-s-threshold-light-br-new-selected-poems-1995-2005#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/6188 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/6188 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A6188 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5561-ps3604.-u54-b49-2006 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5561-ps3604.-u54-b49-2006 wanting to be remembered, something more than just a number— I wrote a book. now, once a year they come to visit my quiet resting place, lingering but a moment— call number inventoried, reshelved I return to collecting dust.     Mic . . . less than forty words per minute. new poems 2005-2007 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:00:51 GMT /section-441-.-.-.-less-than-forty-words-per-minute.-br-new-poems-2005-2007#comments 5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5561 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5561 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5561 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5390-.-.-.-spring-3-haiku https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5390-.-.-.-spring-3-haiku                                                                        matins ah! daffodil! bright welcoming herald what joy your trumpet brings!                                                                    nones delighting in spring's thaw a neighbour’s cat to the koi pond returns                                                                    vespers following my slow shadow home from the field . . . another slow shadow     Mic . . . less than forty words per minute. new poems 2005-2007 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:00:53 GMT /section-441-.-.-.-less-than-forty-words-per-minute.-br-new-poems-2005-2007#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5390 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5390 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5390 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5381-.-.-.-the-gardener https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5381-.-.-.-the-gardener awakening before the dawn an octogenarian eagerly rises, prepared by small prayer he departs from his cell— some weeding, some pruning soon will follow— chapel, light breakfast the order of day. outside sacred walls, under straw hat shade he toils, he tends to God’s garden— the greatest of care for detail, does he pay— not a chore but a labor of love.   This poem recently appeared in the July 2007 issue of Fruits of the Creative Garden, a magazine for creative expression.       Mic . . . less than forty words per minute. new poems 2005-2007 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:51:23 GMT /section-441-.-.-.-less-than-forty-words-per-minute.-br-new-poems-2005-2007#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5381 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5381 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5381 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5370-.-.-.-of-seasons-long-still-fleeting https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5370-.-.-.-of-seasons-long-still-fleeting          solstice of winter—            bold thief of precious hours                      darkening my soul                      pirouetting            the fresh snow— oak's last leaf splitting more wood—            groundhog's shadow                      looms in the distance                      this tree and I            too long empty shadows awaiting rebirth silvery-white flakes            conceal the blooming crocus—                      sun is hiding too!                      beneath a fresh snow            the forsythia bending— another saké? filling our days equally            with light and repose—                      equinox of spring                      alone in the wood            inhaling spring's vast bounty wounded hearts still heal until ladybug's visit . . .            just another yellow hibiscus                      nocturnal beetles'            luminescent enchantment— lampyridae nights! ... more Mic . . . less than forty words per minute. new poems 2005-2007 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:19:46 GMT /section-441-.-.-.-less-than-forty-words-per-minute.-br-new-poems-2005-2007#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5340-.-.-.-always-this-hungered-desire https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5340-.-.-.-always-this-hungered-desire                                                       steamy night                                                     in some cheap motel diner—                                                     just me and this hot philly       Mic . . . less than forty words per minute. new poems 2005-2007 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:50:28 GMT /section-441-.-.-.-less-than-forty-words-per-minute.-br-new-poems-2005-2007#comments 9 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5340 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5340 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5340 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5339-.-.-.-to-the-young-poet-just-beginning https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5339-.-.-.-to-the-young-poet-just-beginning suffer always         to make your verses                         resonate as brilliantly                                 as the sea         herself, who without                 need of language compels her         own euphony! Mic . . . less than forty words per minute. new poems 2005-2007 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:45:59 GMT /section-441-.-.-.-less-than-forty-words-per-minute.-br-new-poems-2005-2007#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5339 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5339 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5339