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Shadow Play

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    ~ 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

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~ 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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Palindrome

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~ Ah Life Sweet Life Profound Occurrence Abundant Recurrence Eternal Endurance Thus Is So As Life Will Last Long Long Last Will Life As So Is Thus Endurance Eternal Recurrence Abundant Occurrence Profound Life Sweet Life Ah ~       ©2014, Marvin Welborn 05 April 2014  

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Ars Vivendi

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~ Hail! to the mountains, munificent land. Symbols of power, they tower, transcend. Praise for the rivers, the mountains then send down unto oceans, that nest next to sand. Here’s to the oceans, on which life depends. We forget how, somehow, everything blends. Blessed be hours, too short, that life lends; the glorious stories, each […] Continue reading →

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Latter Day Man

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I don’t know, but think so. I don’t understand.   I’m slow on the up-take, But fast with a hand   To help a good neighbor, Or helping a friend –   I glow in the up-beat, A latter day man.   What Charlie hath saith I dare countermand,   But Natural Selection? It’s more […] Continue reading →

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a moment on moment

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~ a table, a chair, immobile air; outside comfort, a languid affair. a robin appears, thinks it quite queer, one man at table, sitting in chair. ~ hello, mister robin, oh, so aware. the man at the table and robin each stare, one unto other when another appears: an indigo bunting from out of nowhere. […] Continue reading →

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For Two Tales To End Well

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~ Here are two stories     that need being told, One of the young man,     the other of old:   Into the young eyes     pristinely set cold, Each thing a new ring     inwardly flows.   ~ An old man before him     bears dust and grows mold – For reverence, first severance, […] Continue reading →

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revolutions

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~ it snows in the mountains it sleets on the plains   down to the coastlines it all turns to rain   winter befalls us cold   hard   and   fast   and memory serves us conserves us at best   by knowing that spring renews us at last   relief would then tell us when winter […] Continue reading →

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Spanglish

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~ Alvin Valdez and I would wend Our way    down main    at lunchtime.   A bookstore    in store    much long before The store became such the main focus.   A conglomerate deal With central appeal   To the coffeehouse weal, The Barnes and Noble house status.   A long tall hall, poor light and all, […] Continue reading →

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Mythopoeia

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~ A blank sheet of paper     Awaits to be filled; Marks, unto letters;     Words, to be spilled.   Lines, run to margins,    To keep them entailed: Thoughts put on paper,     Potential, trammelled.   Like gardens that taper     From fresh fallowed fields, Thoughts are the crops,   […] Continue reading →

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Oblivion

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~ he was alone,     as everyone is; and will be ’til each one will end.   and wherever     he roam, he’ll return     to home;   to his mind,     where we find         it begin.   the reality though,     he simply won’t go to the places     that will not exist. […] Continue reading →

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Fade! Fade!

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~ Each day     As I watch it,         It slowly evades.   Fade!    Fade!     It all fades away.   Time,    Oh  Time!     It slides by,         Away!   It goes by,     Flies by! Belies us,     Some say.   It changes,    Erases,     Turns faces to gray.   Fade!    Fade!     […] Continue reading →

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Sequestration

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…. This is the month That my mother died.   The year fades fast To memory.   It must have been written In pencil somewhere,   On paper, And there set in stone;   And after awhile, It all erases.   ~ Befuddled, perplexed; At sevens and six;   Forwards, sideways, And backwards:   The […] Continue reading →

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Diamonds in the Rough

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 ~ Made it through And still alive – I’m sitting here, on third!   When I was younger, So much younger, One heard   no word   I said.   Yet, who was I? This other guy, Ego, thoughtless head.   Now here I am, An older man, Round third Where the sound Is much better heard. […] Continue reading →

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