Dec 8 2020
Monterey Bay basks Sun enriched
Watery surface wrinkling’, moving, reacting
Invisibly influenced passing forces induce dance
Single modifyers called into action
Attempt to tell all… but do they?
Blustery
Windswept
Prevailing
Tempestuous
Howling
Turbulent
Menacing
Such descriptives might heighten expression
…
Oct 6 2020
Pancake Conversations
By: Dan’l McILhenny
As a Birthday wish she agreed
To heat the griddle,
To bother with the batch
And to become my personal chef
All for the sake of pancake conversations
Before we get talking here’s my gift
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Oct 6 2020
Banners Above the Bluff
By: Dan’l McILhenny
Pampas grass flags
Stand erect
Ruffled by the breeze
Appearing as guardian figures
Clumped together waiting
Ready - to take their
Battle stations
Banners above the bluff
From this vantage point
Not a…
Oct 6 2020
The Giant E. Verses the Little Bitty B. Debacle
Or…Two Arguing Argue-nots
By: Dan’l McILhenny
“We shouldn’t argue!” said the red billed bird
...We’re different as any true friends ought to be
You’re an elephant with your own point of…
Oct 6 2020
Allofasudden
(The Cat Was On The Ball)
By Dan’l McILhenny
An untied shoelace
My eyes got a tip
While doin’ window shoppin’
Along the Sunset Strip
Oh what a hazardous trip
Might befall her - if she only knew
This…
Sep 15 2020
Don’t toss a pebble in the pond boy
Show a little restraint, behave...okay!
It’s assumed you could
But why would you
On this special day
Kindly direct
Your interest some other constructive way
Quick - without delay
Life’s a tug…
Sep 15 2020
Ronny was a different kid
A self imposed loner some say
No profile really
Though tall, frightfully lean - but agile
Ronny kept his smile
Forever away
Locked tight - outta sight
He'd never crack a grin at all
An…
Sep 15 2020
You can Skidmore East or Skidmore West
In either direction you decide what’s best
It’s all part of the Alameda heart of town
That’s called... the Skidmore Up and Down
Breezin’ through the avenue’s
Checkin’ out home after home
Most…
Aug 11 2020
Hasten up twilight
Invite speechless nightfall in
Wind wrap cool around us
Let sunset please begin
Sun the brightest, mighty one
Must bid at last adieu
Slow the glows
Those pastel shows
‘Tis dusk we seek again
Above wooded mountain…
Aug 11 2020
Shoes of another
Bought by my Mother
Found at a secondhand store
A Pearl of a girl is she -
Bein’ poor’s an illusion
If you’ll choose it to be
‘Cuz there’s some cushion
Between earth and me
Liftin’ the…
Aug 11 2020
I got a friend named Alaska Joe
We go fishin’ every day or so
A couple of kids you probably don’t know
Me and Alaska Joe
Bait in the bucket, tackle and pole
Come hell or high water we go
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