Prototype

…. Oh! Rio Puerco, we’ve met where before?   Cuba?     Arizona? No water, but sand.   And here now Isleta, near the Rio Grande.   Oh, Rio Puerco, you’re everywhere then.   Empty with promise to come back again,   so, Rio Puerco, you’ve stretched yourself thin.   A dead bed sans water, dry dirt […] Continue reading

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Karin

… no hurricane hit     the US this year only a storm     called Karin.   the only relieved,     the one she left there – a spouse     in the briny left carin’   a mate     she would hate because     the ingrate   mixed up her name     with an old flame […] Continue reading

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Politics 113

~ A war is proceeding, It’s not “Over There.” No drums Nor bugles, No Standards to bear.   Just back-alley deals, And clandestine dares. One troop in trouble, A rupture is near.   It’s foe, though out-numbered, The club doesn’t care. The Business of business, A sordid affair.   The loss through this all, A […] Continue reading

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Time Takes Me There

~ This day, tomorrow,       I plan to be here.   At this time, mañana,       I’m going nowhere.   Time will be moving,       And thus will be proving,   By simply behooving,       Time takes me there.   I only borrow       What Time lets me share.   So this Time the morrow, […] Continue reading

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Mesa Verde

~ Pueblo por Pueblo Stacked within arms To protect you, Secreto, From dangerous harms.   Some blessed by agua, Some, none at all. Pueblo poor Pueblo, Stone, in stone walls.   One year, acuerdo, Another, que no.   ¿Estuve que libre, En stanzas escriben, Que hace contigo Libre también, O este de no?   Pueblo […] Continue reading

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Aperture

  One day The day will come Some say That way’s long done One day The day was gone Some day A need of gun Some way It will be done Day one Some say has come Today   ©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn 18 September 2013 0.6  

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An Idea of Reason

~ In nearing the end     of Summertime season, One wonders where Winter,     Spring and Fall go.   The Young Ones     who made it,  thus far,          are still here – Amazing,     since Chance         is a Fiction  unknown.   As Fledglings depart,     it marks a new season; It begins just […] Continue reading

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A Red Badge of Courage

  “That’s what you need. A button, a card, to prove you’re indeed.”   And all I had asked: “A discount for vets?”   I laid down my Key-Fobs, once hung ’round my neck.   “These are called ‘Dog-Tags,’ will they do the trick?”   “Oh no, Sir, I’m sorry. You’ll still need a button: […] Continue reading

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One Day Will Come

  The weather seems perfect    in Honolulu Even if rain    on old Oahu.   It never lasts long    but comes and then goes, The weather is perfect    in Honolulu.   Three times per day,    maybe some more; Some rains last longer,    like that or a war.   Two-Hundred years,    a revolving door, Each generation    (which […] Continue reading

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segues

  the old man lies     and waits for again the day, a night,     an hour to end   somewhere, elsewhere     a son’s life begins the father remembers     the lad holding ten   and wonders, if rather     his son recalls him somewhere, someplace     a chapter opens   on new life, […] Continue reading

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Chimera

~ A bloom of love     loses the head a minute    an hour     grows old.   One small child,     both lost in the while, the mind     a refuge    for gold.   A new moon    to slough     a cusp    overhead – Behold!    […] Continue reading

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Just Goes to Show

~ If Easy Rider     was so great Why then still,     do I still hate   This movie made     so second rate, Best Picture,     they gave     in Sixty-Eight!   Just goes to show     what kind of state A Sixty-Seven     mind could make. This money making     big mistake, Went […] Continue reading

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Another Fiction

~ The Western Sky     is high and dry Where rocky mountains     fill the eye, And rivers run     not East     but West, The Anglo-Saxon     man came last.   For years, and years,     the Native Man Had lived and tooled     the Western Land. Upon this open     vast terrain, The […] Continue reading

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Cubicles

    ~ Lisa and I,     we do have our favs, and one of them sits near,     beside us.   Our row of small cubes     sits off from the rest, in a big room     by being the farthest.   It’s the clique we are in,     a specialty group, and we […] Continue reading

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Nonpareils

~ Separation, indifference,     Alienation….   Sometimes it feels     Like a hole in the wall.   What now becomes     Of the paragon child,   The beau ideal,     Nonpareil?   Who said such was such     inasmuch as was thought?   Thinking, we know,     will make it all so.   O! Baby […] Continue reading

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