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Hi, Monty Vern here. I’m a work-in-progress personal blogger, author/ illustrator, and fallible human being. This is the new home for Monty’s Blahg. A place for musings both written and drawn.

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  • A Bit of Play
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  • Treochair (Ireland)
    National Poetry Month is back! I’ll be selectively participating in a number of poetry prompts this month. Here is my entry for a prompt from @murisopis’ Poetry from Around the World Scavenger Hunt. This is a great poetry challenge so I encourage you to participate! Ireland: Treochair – An Irish form consisting of tercets (3Continue reading “Treochair (Ireland)”
  • The Wayra (Peru)
    National Poetry Month is back! I’ll be selectively participating in a number of poetry prompts this month. Here is my entry for a prompt from @murisopis’ Poetry from Around the World Scavenger Hunt. This is a great poetry challenge so I encourage you to participate! Peru: The Wayra – A popular form originating in Peru/BoliviaContinue reading “The Wayra (Peru)”
  • A Bite to Remember (NaPoWriMo #2)
    National Poetry Month is back! I’ll be selectively participating in a number of poetry prompts this month. Here is my entry for the prompt from napowrimo.net. Write a platonic love poem. In other words, a poem not about a romantic partner, but some other kind of love – your love for your sister, or aContinue reading “A Bite to Remember (NaPoWriMo #2)”
  • The Phantom Tollbooth Misremembered (NaPoWriMo #1)
    National Poetry Month is back! I’ll be selectively participating in a number of poetry prompts this month. Here is my entry for the prompt from napowrimo.net. Write – without consulting the book – a poem that recounts the plot, or some portion of the plot, of a novel that you remember having liked but thatContinue reading “The Phantom Tollbooth Misremembered (NaPoWriMo #1)”
  • The Lune (America)
    National Poetry Month is back! I’ll be selectively participating in a number of poetry prompts this month. Here is my entry for the ‘America’ prompt from @murisopis’ Poetry from Around the World Scavenger Hunt. This is a great poetry challenge so I encourage you to participate! America: The Lune – An American form of HaikuContinue reading “The Lune (America)”
  • The Cedar (NaPoWriMo #0 – the early bird special)
    National Poetry Month is back! I’ll be selectively participating in a number of poetry prompts this month. Here is my entry for the ‘early bird’ prompt from napowrimo.net. Pick a word from the list below and write poem titled either “A [the word]” or “The [the word]” in which you explore the meaning of theContinue reading “The Cedar (NaPoWriMo #0 – the early bird special)”
  • “Enlightened”
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  • Cityscape
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  • Mountain Lake
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  • G.O.A.T
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  • An Extraction of Jack
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  • Watery Impresssion
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  • Playing with AI
    So I finally found the time to explore the available AI tools and I have to admit, I’m impressed. I’m pretty favorable towards adopting new tools that enhance the way we work, even if there are potential pitfalls, but I’m a slow adopter for AI as it’s been hard to access here in China. ButContinue reading “Playing with AI”
  • Mocha Splash
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  • Dreaming, I Swim
    Dreaming, I swimAgainst the currents,Crossing the sound,Beneath the stars,Between ships large,Under sharp keels,Miles beyond my abilityTo stony shores;Out of the cold waters,I arise refreshed. I have this recurring dream. I swim across the Puget Sound. The waters are too cold, but I’m not. The distance too far, yet I arrive safely to shore. I don’tContinue reading “Dreaming, I Swim”
  • Branches
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  • Mountain Landscape
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  • Lugu Lake, Yunnan
    This is my first trip to western China. We took an early morning flight out of Shanghai when the sky was still dark. A four hour flight plus three and a half hour drive later we arrived at Lugu Lake in Yunan province in the peak of the afternoon with the sun bright and warm.Continue reading “Lugu Lake, Yunnan”
  • Lake View
    Blue ripples,Ducks dip,Air brisk,Breath in,Sun ripens,Warmth spreads,Exhale. Be well, Monty
  • Two Figures
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  • Here
    Lingering on the horizonBetween where and therePast-tense passingFuture unbecomingGifting presenceHere Be well, Monty
  • Four Scripts
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  • Write Verse
    The instructions are clear,A simple escape clause,An invitation to get figurative,To dip my toes into unclear waters,To wet my pen’s tip with half-formed thoughts. Flurries float down from above, but never land,Disappearing in one gesture,Like those thoughts yet firm,Melting away before they make the page,Sublimation of my mind. Nonsense permitted,I opt out of logic andContinue reading “Write Verse”
  • On Being
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