Maintenance
I missed a couple of posts because of Labor Day, or at least that was the plan, but then our Internet broke. So I missed a couple of posts because the Internet broke. That’s a better excuse.
day by day
I decay
pieces of me
fall away
clip
what once was white
now is yellow
clip
wash away
the filth
smooth
the jagged edges
clip
again I look
fresh, young
clip
appearances
can be deceiving
I was clipping my toenails and I thought, wouldn’t it be funny to write a poem about something as dumb as clipping your toenails? And then I thought, it would be even funnier if it was actually good… let’s give it a shot. This was the melodramatic result.
Sarah D. Silvey 
Well, it worked. You got a good poem out of a commonplace event. I rather like poems like this one. They highlight for me the fact that most of our lives are spent doing little things, feeling little things, seeing little things. That’s more life in a way than the dramas. If we are not mindful of them, how much we miss. And poems like yours help us to be mindful.
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Yeah, it actually turned out fine, I was surprised. Yet another writing lesson learned
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This was truly a pleasure. I thought you were talking about hair. Imagine my expression when I saw what you were actually relating this to! By the way, love the new layout. Sending best wishes!
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Haha, hair would be nicer, wouldn’t it?
Thank you so much! I hate the layout! I’m going to change it lots!
Best wishes to you too 😀
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I thought you were talking about the new layout and how you’ve clipped it, ..looks good…. I found your poem intricately intriguing….
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It’s applicable to a few situations, isn’t it? I made it a little vague on purpose.
I WISH I was making progress clipping my website into shape, eugh. I worked on it all Sunday to no avail. Or as Edison would say, I found ninety nine things that didn’t work!
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I’m not that clever to change things too much, although last night, I added a Flag widget to display where all the countries my readers come from.
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Oh, I found it! That’s fun!
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On the fly!
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Nothin’ like the smell of hot toenail dust via filing in the morning! It’s always good to stop and think about the little things in life ❤
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Hot toenail dust does have its own unique smell, doesn’t it? Really wakes you up, better than coffee!
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