Poems for Pickin'
Pure Prairie Poetry
Ranging from the silly to the sublime, the cosmic to the comedic, and the tragic to the absurd the author's interests in astronomy, astrology and mythology make much of his poetry particularly colorful. While the volume starts out invoking pleasant scenes of bygone eras and neighborhood bars, it ends up with poetry on world events that is frighteningly real: January 6, guns, democracy, and dictators. And of course, Ukraine. Replete through all of these verses are deep insights into human relationships, and a quest for spirituality.
Poetry is meant to be savored, one poem at a time. With that in mind you can read one poem a day and have something new to read for 67 days!
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A Pocketful of Poems
Craig Pugh's poetry ranges from the silly to the sublime, the cosmic to the comedic, and the tragic to the absurd. His work and images never get too far away from readers because he deals with things we all see every day. This makes him accessible and comfortable to read since he doesn't deal in abstractions. So we see poems about coffee, cats and love "in all its messy glory," as the author likes to say. Incredibly, twenty-five of his poems are about poems and poets. He does adhere to rhyme and structure, but works new ground by incorporating contemporary images and situations into his poems. Mirth and intensity are two of his defining characteristics; "Sex Slave" and "A River of Stars" demonstrate this. These are poems about living. The author knows how to laugh, and he knows how to cry. He ranges so far and wide that readers of all ages will find something to chuckle at, wonder about, or just plain shake their heads at.
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Ganja Tales, 2nd ed.
Three new ganja tales were enough to reissue the original Ganja Tales as a second edition with a total of a dozen marijuana short stories. This edition was published in 2019, a full nineteen years after the first one in 2000. It's still the only truly literary ganja short stories on the market.
So the first new story, Jail Bait, is about a college instructor who grows weed at home and gets talked into teaching at the state prison where many inmates were sent for growing weed. The second story, To Smoke A Bowl, features a poor fool named Joe who sets out in a Nebraska blizzard to retrieve a nug from his buddy’s porch. In Bright Lights and Live Wires, all I can say is that if there was ever a 420 Hall of Fame, my protagonist Eddie would be in it.
PLEASE NOTE: GANJA TALES II has been REISSUED!
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