~ The hardest part is doing the right, But then, it takes time to know it. I heard it once said: “Thirty years make a man.” But now, I’m not so sure of it. At twice the space I err just as much – I count all the […] Continue reading
~ Nine-Seven-Eight Sits on a corner, A city, a street, Somewhere. A high wooden fence Surrounds The grounds: A compound In semblance In air. Nine-Seven-Eight. No one seems home. But people Do live there, I swear! It’s quiet, Threadbare, And gone in the bone: […] Continue reading
…. I. Cibola At the fin de siècle myths are renewed, and Cibola re-sought for thought to be true. Wealth! beyond measure, there for the leisure to take for España, the King, and their God; but of that brought back, was fraught with the bad, from a land that was called […] Continue reading
~ Those dreams again That keep me awake The dreams I have That won’t let me sleep Of those who once were But now who are gone The black cat is mewing For you to come on I’m coming I’m coming I’m coming along There’s no need […] Continue reading
Spheres once H2O Metamorphose into snow Six-pointed feathers ©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn 30 October 2013
Condensing vapor Falls as drops of H2O From the atmosphere ©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn 30 October 2013
Nature, Unforgiving, Takes back from the living, Recants on committed, Retracts what is given, Reneges. On everything given It strives behind striven, Survives by just living, Nature deprives in the end. Nature’s a Janus faced friend. My mother had died While I was sleeping. Death came a-creeping, Still while a-sleeping; Death came […] Continue reading
…. It’s a long, long way to yesterday, a whole lot of water now gone. An uncle once said, It”s been a good day. It comes out in the wash when all done. ~ There are triolets here, a couple more there – then, bit by bit, disappear. I remember it most, the Real wholly […] Continue reading
…. I moved to the East where they ex-wife had brought me because she so hated New Mexico. Some folk are like that wherever they go. But I fit in easy, lizard-like so. So I came to Virginia just ‘out of the blue.’ But really, a ‘toss up’ twixt two States I knew. […] Continue reading
For Billy Collins …. He says he counts syllables. But I don’t think so. I’ve yet to see something Written with Mo. Oh yes, it is funny, Big laughs as you go. But rhythm and rhyme To find in his […] Continue reading
…. The mother of someone was onetime a flame. The father, a cowboy seeking his fame. And someone will grow up to do the same thing. She might say, “I’ll throw up!” Exclaim his disclaim. Yet, that’s how it ends up: Familiar the ring, […] Continue reading
The end begun began the story It takes some time to burnish a boy The wind the sun the sand the boy Time waits for man to finish the story ©2013, Marvin […] Continue reading
~ Nine is a number assigned to a month. Nine is the number to months of the year We pass through to get to to finally reach here. Remember September Ninth month of the year. ~ Three quarters an annum, three fourths so near […] Continue reading
every day a saturday each day the same when old savor the day save it away set up some rainy day goal don’t waste one day wishing away each day posthaste as droll five sevenths of life when seen […] Continue reading
~ The house was empty, barren and lone. Discarded now, but once was a home. Now, all abandoned, it’s owners were gone, ’til three young teenagers had happened along. Who once had lived there nobody knew. Four small rooms, a small bathroom, too. Perhaps, who lived here had simply outgrew the lack […] Continue reading
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 