The August General

~ Autumn’s sprung a season anew; Summer’s done in days but a few. Raining, dripping water not snow; warm as it was just hours ago. ~ The next day the same day as the day was before. ~ More rain, yet more rain; rainwater pours. ~ Autumn has reigned a whole new regime; and changed […] Continue reading

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First Lesson After The Loss

~ After the thrashing the wisdom is weak and the sting of the smashing benumbs. ~ I can’t speak. I won’t speak. There’s no one to talk too. ~ The din of the crowd that before was so loud in the wake becomes a bevy of silence. ~ Alone by myself at the end of […] Continue reading

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Tit for Tat

One day, mid-day, maybe noon, not before, there came a loud crashing and thrashing at door. I was resting from reading an old poem of Poe’s, and I’d just laid back when I started to doze. The noise now awoke me, and my senses still slow, a flutter then flapping, would stop and then go. […] Continue reading

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Christmas Already!

~ So Christmas is here,           and it’s early this year. As I do remember           we just passed December. . January, I hardly recall! . What happened to Spring,           and the Summer, and Fall? . If memory serves right, it seems […] Continue reading

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When Lights Go Out in Tucumcari

dVerse  ~ Poets Pub 22Dec11 Meeting the Bar – Contrast   ~ ice will take over, while the night’s still on fire, where much is the same, when the same is not much.   When bawdy madly picks up an ‘r’ all stops go full circle – who said there is nonsuch?   Someone’s love will be […] Continue reading

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Never-Ever Land

~ There once was a couple,         a couple of lovers, ~ and Oh! how these lovers could love;         but not to each other. ~ Oh! what a pity!        they should’ve been together, ~ but Alas! and a shame         that they […] Continue reading

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The Road to Abiquiú

~ The route we take to Abiquiú is really each one’s own option. ~ It’s known there’s few but one road new that’s likely to win one’s adoption. ~ The interstate is fast and straight and time is a favorite factor. To navigate the roads we take can bind and break a lifelong trait of the […] Continue reading

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War

~ would be alright if no one got killed like we did at Monte Vista elementary in Albuquerque, where we daily, refought the Civil War – the two sides, gray and blue, aggregating onto two opposing hills at recess, and then charge across the playground merging, blending, through to the opposing side. ~ Two colors, […] Continue reading

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Algernon Writes On and On

~ Alliteration, recognition, patterns packing neat into array of majesty – a visual commen-sur-ate to some fantastic feat. ~ It’s here today, what some would say, a treasure to measure for the eyes to feast. ~ Treat me now, or trick me anon – alliteration, mesmerization, and poof!            it’s gone. […] Continue reading

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Parts of the Blue Ridge

~ The Blue Ridge Mountains,      are a part of Appalachia, and so is Scotland,       I’m told.   A museum in Edinburgh,       the part of university, has geological displays.   And part of exhibit       shows Scotland once flowed from Virginia to atop       of Olde England.         And that was just […] Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Cities

~ Washington, a tongue twisting puzzle for the poet, of your two personas which is true – ~ the government or a mendicant? ~ Both are preponderant supplicants. ~ A generous welfare system, too. ~ The richest city, the poorest town; which of these two are you? ~ Tis a tale of two cities which […] Continue reading

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