…. first comes the quickening no longer there an ancient excitement long disappeared ~ day in day out so many the year forgotten the wonder that’s flushed from aware ~ too soon it goes lost at the cost of career the myth of excitement as middle age nears ~ daylight delightment a […] Continue reading
…. Pass away, Pass away – Into Oblivion. So much for us And a Great Macho Nation. ~ Two boys of eighteen, one some months older, so close in their ages they could have been brothers, but for the customs of a great nation (still great – not late; like those, which came prior.) They […] Continue reading
~ 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
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
~ 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
~ 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
~ 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
…. 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
~ 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
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
~ 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
~ 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
~ 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
~ 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
~ In public bathrooms, The washing machines, We find here the fossils Where Others have been: The instants of imprints From some human scene; Shards of the nonce when Some human scene Were once things, but […] Continue reading
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 