Published in About Me Stories·PinnedMember-onlyAbout Me — Anthony O’DuganRevised 9/12/22 — Hello! I am Anthony O’Dugan, writer, editor, poet, author, and so much more! I’ve been writing on Medium for just over a year now and I am an editor for iPoetry. I’ve amassed a diverse collection of works in my time here and have lined the shelves of my virtual…About Me2 min readAbout Me2 min read
PinnedMember-onlyWelcome to My LibraryAll of my work — agod — Welcome to the Library of Me. Bookmark & Browse at your leisure. Thank you for visiting. Have an amazing day! If you are short on time, here is a list of my top ten favorite pieces. If Only I Had a Dollar Per Word I’d have 1.8 million dollars. Anyway, here are My Top Ten Works.anthonyodugan.medium.com Categories: About Me | Affirmations | Angels | Artificial Intelligence | Books | Children’s Stories| Codetry | Community | CRAVE | Culture | D&D | Depression | Emotions | Enlightenment |…Library18 min readLibrary18 min read
Published in iPoetry·PinnedMember-onlyAnd So I Write…THE MANY WAYS OF MY WHY — And so I write… When the world sleeps whether actually or in my mind where only quiet exists so that I can finally hear the sound of the knock of the ones who deliver the words from worlds I only know when I am still. And so I write… To free…Poetry3 min readPoetry3 min read
Published in Sensual: An Erotic Life·PinnedMember-onlyI Become Youfrom CRAVE 2: Forbidden Secrets I remember your smell from before I knew you. The taste of our first kiss was something I recalled, like a distant memory. When you touch me it’s as if I’m awake for the first time free to live all the dreams I have collected, like finding a…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published in iPoetry·PinnedMember-onlyUnnumbered SheepThe Sandman is on Vacation — I haven’t slept for days… My thoughts are soft swirls of purple haze. In the middle, a minotaur, minding a maze. Within a labyrinth of many ways, I rage at the mirror that reflects my gaze. Tired torpedoes fall silently still As attacks become naps of necessity’s thrill. …Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyYour Little Blue Puffy CoatA Tale of Horrific Grief — This is a fictional piece. See notes after the story. I don’t like the word “like” anymore, because it feels like yesterday and the world insists that it wasn’t. But it was, it has to be, it was just a moment, your moment but my forever. How many people wore…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Published in Put It To Rest·Updated 4 days agoMember-onlyWhere We LieA poem — I hear the whispering from their chitter-chatter mouths about things that still matter even to the dead. I wonder why myself without needing to hear what they are saying why you didn’t come either time when I needed you the most. Now is just a long aftermath where the work doesn’t…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in The Power of Poetry·4 days agoMember-onlyI Am An *The Risk of the Asterisk — I am an asterisk (*) or better thought of as a risk so it seems because I am unpredictable. There is no cookie cutter from which I came. I am a path forged forward by dominion over my own domain. There are no others by my name who can share the same exactness…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyMedium: WTF?Want to look at your stats? Take infinity Captchas first — Every time I try to look at my stats, Medium bugs (the fuck) out and makes me prove I’m human by taking a Captcha test. I’ve taken more of these tests from Medium than there are stars in the Universe. This makes me really despise Medium and feel as though…Tech3 min readTech3 min read
Published in iPoetry·5 days agoMember-onlyGas Station Burrito GuyCosmic Irony: My Greatest Weakness is Rolling a Burrito — This will never happen again. I will never be in this position. I took a moment to breathe to question my smile in the mirror to feel the weight of my sadness and now — temporarily eternally — my hands crack from the heat and the cold and the force that I force my old bones into so…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
