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Lion’s Honey

Original folk tales, poetry, essays and storytelling by Jon Murphy

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Cornucopia Sun(s) (opens the original)

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    Light born of spoken endlessness The cornucopia sun of yesterday’s forgiv’nessesStarlit merciesStrewn across October skyA mannequin mind dressed in deciduous wisdomFor even the wilderness marches to season, Where owl and rodent play riddle and reason And all is good in and of its own kindCaramel creeks mirror a temperament:Ever anew among the evergreenEver meek with temperance A teaching in itself on the passing of timeCrickets sing like crawling thunderWoven in pastures to bestir the jumper<br

  2. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    Bonfire Aficionado (opens the original)

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    Fall has fell and what a time to be alive. The birth of my daughter has been as invigorating as the crisp break of the autumn air. Speaking of that. I was sitting on my back patio this morning. There was a new sensation that I wanted to put my finger on. The survival instinct that the summer heat demands gets overthrown by the break in weather and frees your sinew into all that is play, appreciation and existing in a natural state of being. You feel invincible just breathing it in. <a class="ima

  3. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Hear My Wilder Prayers, Oh my God (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Curators > Gatekeepers (opens the original)

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    There’s this thing that happens. I don’t know why but it does. People will create these new rules out of thin air in order to play a social game. Part of the game is if you can make the rules then your odds of winning go way up. You play different versions as you get older but it starts in grade school and never really changes.You end up having all the same arguments we had as kids playing 4-square at recess and I find myself feeling the same way now as I did then—bored. <a class="image-link ima

  5. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    A Toast To Specificity (opens the original)

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    I am the age I am in the Age I amA letter of a word to a sentence in a paragraph on the page, I amThere is only the now and this life we lead, So may we walk to the rhythm of our own drum beat!<img al

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