In this time of gimme, pushing through people to a moldy, cheesy holiday song One which you have heard so very many times, you hate it, yet you hum along Gimmes stand before stores, hand outstretched and crawl through your mail slot Many of them fill real needs, food and shelter, help people that […]
The world and understanding it live poles apart, as do all of we Fatigue hangs my head, drawn earthward by depression, despair My eyes struggle to lift against the strain, find only conflict, greed Madness then might be my problem, believing we may live in peace Guns and drugs our cities fill, our prisons […]
Rhyming words, so it seems to me just now, is easier than working While many others will disagree, swear to me they know I’m shirking Of course rhymes mostly pay no money, or, at the very best, very little Though some folks would still complain were I to only sit and whittle Whittling’s fine […]
While on a recent idyll, a most pleasant meander I stopped a while to chat with a fiery salamander He dimmed his flames, we talked of rain and wind And all the little embers his sisters meant to send He sent me then down the path to see a mighty oak Said she was […]
You’re a Real Card ~ Part 5 ~ Clubs Clubs, while neither good nor bad on their own are often associated with war In baseball and cricket these clubs are called bats, while in golf just clubs, fore Just as a hammer is a specialized club which can build up, bring things together Names assign […]
What would you do, if you could do anything? Are you sure? Who would you be, if you could be anyone? Do you know why? Who would help, if you could help anyone, anywhere? How would you choose? Have you ever wondered why the world is the way it is? Why, or why not? […]
Not long ago for no sure reason, in quiet, I felt completely lost Why I could not then and cannot now fathom any meaning here Arguing the genesis of this dark emotion or mayhap a future cost Frankly, it worried me, filled me with an unknown, unnamed fear Where everything I could devise, create, […]
The sun rises, alarm clock shrills, traffic noises, screaming children, garbage trucks With these sights and sounds, pain awakens Unbroken whispers, incessant, pervasive, continue their constant siege As a nest of needles, pain greets the day Nattering and nagging, demanding attention, insistent as the specter A shrill-voiced harpy, pain suffuses flesh and bones Dulled […]
Some days it rains and some days the sun does shine Doesn’t really matter much when I make them mine Yet if I’m low, dreary rain may blind me to the truth Other days, though rain mocks me, I am hail and soothe My thoughts don’t turn the world, or my feelings seasons Both rain […]
Some people think that to do anything there is only one way I don’t know how they can believe this no matter what they say But small minds only hold small ideas with nothing left spare With no room then to reason, choose and nothing they can share When confronted with world problems they […]
