An Eponym For Theseus

~ No synonyms to find in the thesaurus;   no eponyms to mind, relating to Theseus.   So why wasn’t he, this man of mythology,   an eponym in Greek for some part of memory?   He forgot – quite a lot! isn’t that what it’s for?   After all, was it not his main […] Continue reading

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Telos

i …and when it came time for gods to then eat Prometheus hid the delectable meat, and gave to the gods inedible bones! Man got the best pick, but all knowing Zeus, he knew of the trick. To placate his ire he took from the man all of his fire – No culture,for man; no […] Continue reading

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Where Young Mothers Go

~ A young mother walking where young mothers go,   she passes me by, my two dogs in tow.   While talking to someone by cellular phone,   a wide wake awakens the space from her home.   She doesn’t go far before hears the cry,   a young tot at window is wailing Goodbye. […] Continue reading

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A Tale Should Do It

~ This is a tale that seldom gets told, brought here but once, before it’s grown old.   A day after Christmas was God-awful cold; one foot of old snow was icy and cold.   In brazen positions, reluctant to go, a marginal army of bold ice and snow.   The day bright and sunny, […] Continue reading

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Tautologies

~ I march with my dogs, By leash on the street. I bid a good morning To each one I meet.   The people, that is, When then they will speak: “There goes Lord Belleview; Who’s kept on a leash.”   The Lord of the Belleview! That’s my claim to fame. For those who don’t […] Continue reading

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D-Day

…. Day Lilies bloom       in Central Virginia   Overnight       round the sixth day             each June. ~ So sudden their sight As that seen at night   When Fireflies       compete             with the moon. ~ Essential […] Continue reading

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Age-out

~ So long there good neighbor,       My once would-be friend.   I’ll never see neighbor again.   As age-out advances       It changes the chances   That neighbors can ever be friends.   Gone is the good day       Where friendships will stay   Forever on ever on […] Continue reading

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whitespace

    when winter steps in the air becomes thin sunshine creeps into the forest ~ the blackbirds will come they have it their run no one there now will dare protest ~ life has all gone! it followed the sun none in the wake but what dearest ~ the blackbirds don’t care as strangers […] Continue reading

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Shadow Play

    ~ A shadow    shows     A shaky figure;   A bird   above     Impedes the flight   Of light     That flows         In rays below,   And falls about         Upon us there,   My dog and I,     With […] Continue reading

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Ode to the Common Man

~ Here’s to the Day!     (the only Day) The few,      if at all any, will have. Old men wear school caps, aside from their naps, Remember the Nothing that might’ve been Something – Making Hay     is just Memory         Salve. ~ This One’s     for […] Continue reading

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Myth of Cronos

~ When Cronos     Dethroned His Father from seat,   He sat at     The same spot The Pater had sat.   Ouranos, in turn,     Reverted to speech:   “Look what you’ve done,     My favorite son.   The breach you entreat Shall only repeat.   Bewrought in all wrong, […] Continue reading

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Just The Poet

Just The Poet I’m just the poet; A real simple man. Humble disquiet Pours forth, From hand. None there Dare read me; Nor me, Understand. I’m just a poet, With words In my pen. No one Reads poetry! Lest, the poet Be dead. Somewhere, Someone, Sometime had said. Well… This one’s A short one. Not […] Continue reading

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Der Üntermensch

~ Here is a story     that needs to be told: Eternal Recurrence,     gets lost in the fold.   This story begins     at the end of a war, the war we would win,     before would be more.   As spoils go to victors,     the mantle was […] Continue reading

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Many’s The Moon

~ And Sixty-Seven Ended much different,   A difference from whence it began. Ed was a cousin;    Ed was a friend;   And we never saw Edward    again.   One decade long in the life of one man, Is not so much long to the span.   But that’s where and what We […] Continue reading

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