I finished my quick-turn-around job earlier this afternoon and had a couple hours extra. I could have, and maybe should have, worked on my wip, but my thoughts were on Veterans Day. So I spent the time writing  a series of occasional poems.

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I don't know about you all, but when I was in school and heard about occasional poetry, I first thought it meant poems written by someone who only wrote poetry once in a while. I think I was in college before I found out what it really meant. I think Tennyson's biography is what clued me in.

Today I became an occasional poet.

Forty Years

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