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Nine Times in Ten

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  It’s hard   to stop a train.   A moving machine   wholesome & clean; metal on metal,   a clankity-clang –   Nine times in ten   and a-shambles again, compared to    a stopping a train.     Of two aunts once left,   begone,      bereft, of the consaguine   […] Continue reading →

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New Year’s Day

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. Black Carrion birds   encircle the sky, in search for the dying or dead. . A lone little squirrel   scampers right by – A whole ‘nother world lies ahead. . Last year’s leaves    still cling to the vine, they rustle and rattle in wind. . An old man clings to the end […] Continue reading →

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A Run in the Sun

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We’ve had a great run,   which was O!      such great fun – That, was Our Day    in the Sun! ~ We had our great run, and even now though all done,   we still know      we had a Run        in the Sun. ~ And should all […] Continue reading →

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Old Men at Sixty

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~ Old men at sixty, forget more each year; but once when much younger, a world, a frontier, old men at sixty were, too, cavalier.   Now old men at sixty they forget why they’re here.   Old friends get harder to remember, revere, as memory grows flinty, the past, unclear, old men at sixty […] Continue reading →

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One Will Move Forward

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…and then she will ask me, to say something nice – there’s something, I’m certain, should surely suffice. My mind dashes back through slivers of time – To memory moments, sliced by design, and think of, ponder, give over to wander though time in the mind, is always together. Birds of one feather – a […] Continue reading →

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Why I Write

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~ I write because I have to, the words are in my head! ~ I give them life, however few, rather than staying unsaid. ~ I write because I want to, a ‘have to’ I want to do. ~ There’s nothing else, as I grow old, I’d rather do, instead. ~ Ninety-nine percent, I’m told, […] Continue reading →

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