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roberthartley wrote a new post, What Does It Mean When an Elephant Sits on Your Fence?, on the site Robert Hartley 20 hours, 42 minutes ago

My wife, my sister, and I drove up to Charlottesville to visit friends. It was a cold March night. We entered a Chinese restaurant, six adults and two children: Cabell, 9, and Arabella Swan Rhodes, 3.

“She’ll […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, The Difference Between a Tired Teacher and a Retired Teacher, on the site Robert Hartley 1 week ago

Every afternoon after teaching second grade Suzy visited.
She no longer wore an old, giant-sized coat, but a short-sleeved top sitting down. Just a regular pixie.
“I thought you gave up haiku.”
“Not yet.”
The […]
roberthartley commented on the post, Serendipity, on the site Ronald Sieber 1 week, 5 days ago

WOW! Now, is this a story, or what!
roberthartley wrote a new post, CHAUCER: the Month of May, on the site Robert Hartley 2 weeks ago

The Roman de la Rose is a mediaeval French poem styled as an allegorical phantasy. A courtier seeks to woo his beloved. Such wooing is idolized in courtly literature, l’amour courtois coloured heavily with erotic […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, JEREMIAH: Drunk on Sake in a Ditch, on the site Robert Hartley 3 weeks ago

Drunk on sake I lie in a ditch. I hearken from olden times, foretelling visions. Persons passing by avoid me because I am a haiku poet, drunken on sake, warning of darkness to come.

A lovely lady from Japan, as […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, TRYING TO WRITE HAIKU, on the site Robert Hartley 4 weeks, 1 day ago

“Awww,” said Anne, a lady no one wanted to disappoint.
“There’s no tiger in me,” I lamented.
“I want a haiku too,” Anne decided.
“A haiku?”
“Yes. Haiku.”
“I’m still reading about it.”
“That has a tiger in […]
roberthartley commented on the post, Honoring Our Past; Grounding Our Future, on the site Ronald Sieber 1 month ago

It is difficult for me to respond to this post, because cars fill me with such powerful nostalgia. By “cars” I mean the vehicles that were driven when I was growing up and not the modern conveyances of today. The […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, APRIL 9: three birthdays, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 1 week ago

Today, the ninth of April, is the birthday of two famous people: Hugh Hefner and W.C. Fields. I can think of no others, which may include the notorious, preferably the notorious: notoriety can be […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, ADVERSITY: The Doom of Napoleon, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 1 week ago

When Napoleon was defeated, disgraced, and exiled to the island of Elba, he told an aide that he would kill himself. The aide replied:

“No, your majesty could not do that.”

“But, I have to!”

“Your majesty […]
roberthartley posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago

In reply to: ronaldsieber commented on the post, Do Dogs Know?, on the site Robert Hartley Rbt: I like “Forgetting” better because of what it implies in the line. That might be like sliding into second on a clear overthrow, […] View

Agreed–much easier to read.
roberthartley commented on the post, Do Dogs Know?, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 2 weeks ago

For years the last line of the poem read:
“Not knowing that his friend is dead.”

Then, when it went up on Mossbackdragon last year and everyone began reading it, Larry Hall urged upon me “Forgetting,” and this […]
roberthartley commented on the post, Little Things DO Matter, on the site Emily Sather 1 month, 2 weeks ago

This brings to mind the quote by Barbra Streisand, “Excellense is in the details!”
Well, I think that’s what she said.
roberthartley commented on the post, GHOSTS: Nothing Dies within Words, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Thank you Janice. I wasn’t quick enough to contribute to the “word contest” earlier this month which was of great interest to me. Years ago I studied word etymologies and even wrote a small book on the history of […]
roberthartley posted a new activity comment 1 month, 2 weeks ago

In reply to: roberthartley wrote a new post, GHOSTS: Nothing Dies within Words, on the site Robert Hartley On Facebook appeared the following: YOU SPELL A COMMON WORD CORRECTLY. BUT AN AWKWARD MOMENT OCCURS WHEN IT SEEMS SO […] View

Yes you should Mary L! Thanks for the comment.
roberthartley wrote a new post, GHOSTS: Nothing Dies within Words, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 2 weeks ago

On Facebook appeared the following:

YOU SPELL A COMMON WORD CORRECTLY. BUT AN AWKWARD MOMENT OCCURS WHEN IT SEEMS SO WRONG YOU STARE AT IT FOREVER, QUESTIONING ITS EXISTENCE.

And it received a popular […]
- Mary L Holden replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  I really should visit here more often!
- roberthartley replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Yes you should Mary L! Thanks for the comment.
roberthartley wrote a new post, Do Dogs Know?, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Changed is the last line of this poem, which disturbed people. Maybe verse should be disturbing. The question: Is the poem disturbing in an interesting way?

Two Dogs

Two dogs push a herd of sheep;
Though […]
roberthartley commented on the post, Life’s a Beach…Or is It?, on the site Ronald Sieber 1 month, 3 weeks ago

What a great story!

The experience of it aroused many feelings within me. The beach, of course, is life as we live it inwardly and outwardly. Life changes, and with it the beach seems to change too, though of […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, Hello, NAIWE member!, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 3 weeks ago

This is me.

A native of Virginia, Robert Hartley began drawing and telling stories at age four and never really stopped, having written and published poetry and worked as a freelance artist. Vivid memoir though […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, From death and darkness…, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The impact of the crash had been such that I lived in black night. The black night never ended. My eyes had needed to re-establish themselves; light and dark appeared only with the passage of months. By the end of […]
roberthartley wrote a new post, He tried to jump out of a window?, on the site Robert Hartley 1 month, 3 weeks ago

One nurse nobody liked, that we called Frogbone, because she looked like something you wouldn’t even write a poem about, refused to turn down the heat. Confined as my body was in one position, it was difficult to […]
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