When the words don’t come
Do we sound an alarm?
Has vocabulary ceased, has this well gone dry?
If word fall is likened to raindrops…
And storms refuse to storm
Is this any concern at all?
Or a hiccup lapse…
Read moreFeb 21 2023
When the words don’t come
Do we sound an alarm?
Has vocabulary ceased, has this well gone dry?
If word fall is likened to raindrops…
And storms refuse to storm
Is this any concern at all?
Or a hiccup lapse…
Read moreFeb 21 2023
If a pizza went on vacation
Where would it likely go?
Probably not to some hot spot
Like an overactive oven or a barbeque cooking show
Nor the north or southern pole
Where there’s any chance of becoming stiff
Somewhere…
Read moreFeb 21 2023
So, Winters Solstice arrives and . . .
Autumn slips seamlessly away
Did she vaporize?
No handshake, no hug, no regrets to eye
Instead, a regulated, mechanized clock ticks
Finality finalized - where one goes the other stays
While most…
Read moreJan 8 2023
Dear Mister Hotchkiss,
Is your door still ripe for knockin’?
All us woodpeckers wanna know
The wrapper gag made us laugh a lot
As bird brainy pranks will do
A tap, tap here and a rat - a - tat…
Read moreJan 8 2023
Nickel plate those rails boys, nickel plate those rails
Then we’ll fix them to the Earth somehow
Did someone mention wood?
Find a bunch of loggers now out in the seas of perfect trees
Who’ll cut and shape and creosote
…
Read moreJan 8 2023
Out on retirement road
Where the traffic never goes slow
It’s the hustle and bustle the same as it’s been
For countless years in a row
No wonder we Seniors plan out our days
Ignoring the purple haze of it…
Read moreJan 8 2023
Adelaide and Atticus
Met they did . . . but no one knows how it came about
It’s doubtful we may ever find a solution
In our time, cause somethings remain pure mystery
Whilst others end in rhyme
Some say…
Read moreDec 16 2022
There are no Buttercup Snowflakes
That we know of . . .
Or Naturistic Rings around our Moon
Nor Cats, that love to do the two step with the next-door Pooch named Spud
Who tends to thud his way across…
Read moreDec 16 2022
Under the Moon, under the Sun
Days parade…come light…come shade
No two are ever alike it seems
All one offs - we ought to call - one hit wonders
Oh, the stories this Earth tries to tell its beings
Through…
Read moreDec 16 2022
Summer floral dressed
Green grass dulcimer girl
Strumming strings, upon a curving wooden box
The rhythmic frames of flowing chords
As well as intricate pickings too
She’s a one-woman band
Singing so angelic while her music goes
Across the meadow…
Read moreNov 12 2022
The old baseball spot is all but forgot
Overgrown in sunflower bloom
Thanks to the players who spat a lot
On the field they used to groom
Down in the count…ahead or behind
One pitcher, one batter
Both seeking answers…
Read moreNov 12 2022
Folks say the Alabama Moon
Loves to hug these Tuscaloosa trees
You got to see it . . . to believe it
A glow rests within the branches
Before it lifts to bright the sky
Any kind of Southern night
…
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