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Down with Bowne (The Uncut Version)
by Walter T Bowne
Walter Bowne is a humorist, a writer is serious fiction, or so he likes to think, and creative nonfiction about his crazy adventures. He may also speak about books, family, history, flowers, and gardening, and his belly button.
Episodes
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Sun and Moon
A sonnet to my then girlfriend, Mary Jane, in 1994. Married in 1995.
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On Innocence
A sonnet to my then girlfriend, Mary Jane, in 1994. We were married in 1995. Cheers!
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Being Alone with Thoughts of You
A short poem for my wife, Mary Jane, during this busy time of her life.
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A Poem for My Daughter
Happy Every Day, Madeline, Five, Twenty-Five, or Eighty-Five
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To Ridley Creek
A sonnet for Mary Jane on the rock where I proposed
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Second Child, Never Runner Up
A poem for my daughter Nancy.
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Here Was a Man
IN MEMORY OF MY GRANDFATHER, RICHARD GOLDHAHN
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I Wandered Lonely as a Dude with Three Women
Walking in Windermere without Wordsworth with three lasses. Cover photo by the author. Lake Windermere, UK. 1990.
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Why Independent Reading is So Essential in School
Changes need to happen in order not to become post-literate. Are we creating life-long readers? Or life-long haters of reading?
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The Uncanny Letter from the Beyond
PLAYING THE FIVE CARDS: Communion with the Past is Tongued with Fire from the Present Cover Art: The Northern Chesapeake Bay. (link)
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The Butterscotch Queen and Her Sexual Frankness
With enough to remember, I revisit some old memories. Butterscotch image by Joe Dyer from Buckhurst Hill, England. CommonsWikipedia Link
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The Rolling Stones Get Religion
Rock and roll, after all, has its roots in gospel and the blues. Cover Art: The Rolling Stones in Oslo, Norway. (Link). “Let’s Spend the Night Together” translates in Norwegian as “La oss tilbringe natten sammen.”
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The Father in Me is Never Off Duty
Intervening in the conflict between predator and the innocent
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Elevate Hearts and Minds to the Portals of the Soul
A Sensual Education: The Father Who Falsely Thought He Had It All Figured Out. Music by Music by Daddy_s_Music from Pixabay. And cover art: Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wikipedia Commons.
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How to Grow Clematis Like A Maestro of Flowers
The varied blooms resemble water lilies — floating on liquid air.
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Train Jumping and Stealing Steins
I promised God I wouldn't do any more stupid things if He helped me. Photo by Lanis Rossi. Music by Julius H. from Pixabay Wegenlied - Brahms' Lullaby - Classical Flute Selections
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How to Build a Hosta Garden on the Cheap
And other lessons for keeping your garden and lawn fresh and organic
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Writing Prompt: Do you believe more in Fate or Freewill?
Another Day in Room 605. This was the prompt from my Editor In Chief, Alanna Stein. Music by Daddy_s_Music. Pixabay. Music by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/daddy_s_music-22836301/?utm_
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Silence is a Hole
Captive Voice is Not Free. Foolishly filling the hole with three lies.
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Ten Minutes of Lockdown
Drilling in America: The lesson for class changed once the announcement was made.
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The Cerberus Blues to the Rescue
Tale the First: A serialised, satirical novel of Americans on a European tour. This is the opening for satirical novel, Overland to the World, a collection of interrelated tales about Americans on a European coach holiday, which has been published in serialised form on Medium. As a pretentious…
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Book Publisher Promotes Edgy YA Titles to Middle School Teachers
Dump the boring classics with these engaging modern novels. Reading is Knowledge. Photo link: Young adult literature. Link Dear Directors of Language Arts: I’m writing to inform you of the exciting titles on tap at Boontown Books for 2022! Are your teachers and students tired of the same old...
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No Colors Allowed: A satirical novel of a London lad in serialised form
"An hour passed. I remained inside the red Kia Sorento on the sandy drive of The Aunt’s ‘double wide deluxe’ trailer house. In that hour, I reconstructed the collapse of my universe, including our arrival in the States at Philadelphia International. Why no Littleman kin there to greet us? Did…
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The Tower in Pisa Finally Tumbles: Hermits and mystics may love time alone, but not this lonely traveler
Photo by the author. First published in Age of Awareness: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-tower-in-pisa-finally-tumbles-a95a7830ab42?sk=dc521e58aa98ed180ce4c813f34358e1 Parting May Not Be Such Sweet Sorrow We had separated in Pisa, Italy because we were driving each other crazy. Laura had...
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The Pursuit of Love and Romance: Teaching the guys from Hong Kong how to be romantic.
"I was the first to arrive at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. My ramblings were over. From London, BritRail rushed me north with my battered hunter-green backpack with as many books as clothes and dirty underwear. That color had faded in the Mediterranean sun. Had I faded, too, from weeks of traveling? Was…
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No Red States or Blue States
This map hangs proudly in our “map room” of our family room. The different colored pins chart the places we have been as a family and as single explorers
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THADDEUS LITTLEMAN: A Compatriot in Black at the Library
A satirical novel about a London lad in serialised form. With the spare change in my trousers, I made a copy of Emily’s letter. One day I hope to publish “The Collected Correspondence of Thaddeus Littleman.” Would such an audience exist for innocent and pretentious musings? Who would ever…
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THE DNA OF ROCK AND ROLL: This Stuff May Bust Your Brains Out
“Stop Breakin’ Down” from Robert Johnson never runs out of gas. First published on The Riff: https://medium.com/the-riff/this-stuff-may-bust-your-brains-out-96afada20c5c?sk=3468d213ee77299137791cce2f262092 I first knew this song from The White Stripes. 1999. I mean, I’m a huge Blues fan. An...
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Rain Barrels Help With More Than the Water Bill
Using rain water helps Nature in so many ways, and it’s easy. First published in The Environment. https://medium.com/the-environment/rain-barrels-help-with-more-than-the-water-bill-3f7895901ccb?sk=526c54653c03d1fc50646a0cf3de872d
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Add Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” to Your Heavy Metal Playlist
It would also make the cut for great anti-Vietnam War songs. Pigs savor the spoils of war in the killing troughs of France during World War I. (link) (link). Image by the author. Pixlr.com. First published on The Riff....
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So Much Hate Alarms ‘The Lunks’
JUDGING THE JUDGERS: ‘We don’t need your judgement or your jealousy’, Wally says. There are ‘lunks’ here at the gym, but we have to conceal our ‘shameful’ identity And because we have to stay secretive, we don’t feel in a ‘safe place’ — even with the silent eye stares from grannies and grandpas…
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Dearest Writer, We Really Miss You
Literary magazines beg authors to return to writing for free. Beloved Writer, We noticed you have not submitted any poems or short fiction on Submittable to us with the required $25 reading fee. We really miss those fees. Well, as the reader, I really miss those fees. Can you blame me? Can you...
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Yanks on Holiday
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, REFURBISHED: A parody of the General Prologue from “The Canterbury Tales.” Trafalgar Square on a Summer Evening. London. (link). First published on MuddyUm. https://medium.com/muddyum/yanks-on-holiday-fc8c64b684f1?sk=14e829da992877e8e1c7ffe05f3f8aa2 Here bygynneth the book ō̆ver...
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Ode to a Catbird: A Playful Dialectic Between Poet and Bird
Gunnen: Dutch: Finding happiness in someone’s happiness because you love them so much. First published on Paper Poetry. "To awake before the dawn seems foolish — But it’s the early nurseryman who wins While the shadows on the vines seem ghoulish; The vines this morning seem like twisted strings —...
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Thaddeus Littleman: A Love Letter to Emily in London
In despair and lonely, and devoid of culture, Thaddeus Littleman, 12, writes a missive to his lady love, Emily, back in London.
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Thaddeus Littleman. Chapter 1: A London Lad in the Jersey Pines
As soon as Thaddeus Littleman arrives in Atco, New Jersey with his American father from London, after the death of his British mum, Thaddeus experiences life in America the way he always feared: getting shot at by The Cousin with a paintball gun. This is a satirical, serialized novel. Enjoy.
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Learning Economics By Playing ‘Animal Farm’ with Fisher Price People
How I re-enacted George Orwell’s fable with my daughters.
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Walter's Dream Hath No Bottom
Finding that door to get out of the labyrinth. Cover art: Plasticine Labyrinth. By Peter Shanks. (link)
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Tossing the Dice for Happiness
Twelve rolls directs the growth of the daisy poem. Walter Bowne wrote this on dice throws for the meter on the Dutch theme of gunnen. Dice rolls: 2–3–6/ 5–3–3/ 3–1–6/ 5–3–6
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Ode to a Catbird
Gunnen: Dutch: Finding happiness in someone’s happiness because you love them so much
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Sonnet 129 by William Shakespeare
Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame.... this is NOT the sonnet they'll teach in school. But so well worth it. Photo credit: Peasant Lovers by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865. (Link)
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Celebrating “Araby” by James Joyce on St. Patrick’s Day
A short review on one amazing story of young love.
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“Elsewhereness” in “The Boarding House” from James Joyce
Isolated in three distinct sections, three characters run in the opposite direction of happiness. "At the end of the short story from Dubliners, the last story James Joyce devotes to adolescence, the slim girl of nineteen, Polly Mooney, hears her mother, the Madam, call from downstairs..."
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A Song of Dejection
Composed in the youth of my irrational exuberance at 22 in 1992.
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Encountering the ghosts of the past
A writing lesson turned into a lesson about dying and living
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One, Two, Three, Four, Open Up the Fucking Door!
My first concert: A crazy time with Dad does not take away crazy times with Mom.
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Flights of Fancy: Stouts and "Iron John" by Robert Bly
Dan Norbury and Walter Bowne, beer dudes and book dudes, begin their series called Flights of Fancy. In Part I, Dan and Walter drink a fine stout, Gravity Road from Forgotten Boardwalk in Cherry Hill , NJ. They also discuss Robert Bly's influential book on the tale from the Grimm Brothers: "Iron...
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Oscar Wilde's 'Preface' to his classic gothic novella is a quarry of golden nuggets
Applying Rhetoric to Your Writing. Hey there. Walter Bowne here. So. ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ and the ‘Preface’ to Dorian Gray. Fantastic piece, right? Oscar Wilde added the Preface after he received so much heat and hate for the late Gothic and philosophical novella. A deep dive into the...
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On “Thunder Road” with Mary Jane
IN MUSIC, WE RETURN TO THE SOURCE OF OUR LOVE. South Jersey was full of losers, but I was the one, pulling out to win. Published in The Riff: https://medium.com/the-riff/on-thunder-road-with-mary-jane-3897a7d25827?sk=6e81623b114f1ef0869f2f89f2c09b03
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These Winter Days as a Snow Man
Two poems make me ponder gratitude and acknowledgment. Original essay link here: https://medium.com/the-masterpiece/these-winter-days-as-a-snow-man-98407a333c41?sk=1334bf8e0260e6da4bee154ee86cc4a8. Photo by Lanis Rossi (Lancaster County, PA). Photo used with permission.
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Walter Bowne is a humorist, a writer is serious fiction, or so he likes to think, and creative nonfiction about his crazy adventures. He may also speak about books, family, history, flowers, and gardening, and his belly button.
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