…. A Worm Moon arises high overhead; a hole in the sky; a well, water fed. No silhouette figure ever appears; abandoned, this well, everyone fears. A sky overhead; it never is clear. Clouds cover up what blue may be there. Never a figure appears overhead. Abandoned, it is, the owners all dead. And once, […] Continue reading
…. It’s that time of year, the coming again: Green as the color, the color of spring. Birds singing freely, swing limb from limb; spring is the color, of music they hymn. Flora, abounding! Colors, astounding! Fauna, out standing amid all and in the green of the spring, they come and revere; But they […] Continue reading
…. A difficult subject can be explained to the slowest, witless, dimwitted of man; that is, so long as he’s never pre-trained in knowledge, idea, therewith forehand. ~ But he, most intelligent, knowledge ordained; firmly persuaded, and always demands; he will not listen, nor will he obtain the simplest notion, no matter how plain. …. […] Continue reading
…. So now, here you are; it’s not really you; but this is, by far, the best we can do. A mental image, what we encompass; should we do damage, Edith, forgive us. But, you were long gone before we’re about; all we can go on that’s left, we make out. We think you someone, […] Continue reading
…. The early hours, midnight to dawn; stragglers come in on their own. The parties are over; they’ve come to get sober; a last place to stop, before home. It’s the Bungalow Inn, where haggles begin; the chagrin, of being alone. The end of a day; the start to a new; the Bungalow Inn, to […] Continue reading
…. The winter of 16 Was almost not here; Then, neither was spring, Now whether that matters. The strangest of things Are never so clear, As good things that wake up and make up for sadder. If this makes much sense, You’re smarter than I; For I never learned A priori. ~ During that […] Continue reading
…. always, the voices voices repeating…. ever in voices never completing the meaning intention always misled…. all bear completion but oh no instead…. always the voices misheard and misread…. only those voices which come from the head always the voices of those from the dead…. …. ©2016 Marvin Welborn 26 February 2016. Revised 24 Mar […] Continue reading
…. In San Juan County, the horses are plenty; the people who live there, but few. Wild run the horses, feral and liberal; as well as for people, they are free too. More than one hundred thousand wild ponies roam thru a dome of skies bright and blue. If truth be told, these horses are […] Continue reading
…. This, I remember Reciting your face – The lines & the inclines, I cannot retrace. Like mountains abounding, All lost in haze; Memory fails me, Defining your face. This is my lot now; This is my place. This is the spot now, […] Continue reading
[tis the season….] ~ Another five inches, Snow falling down. One bird is singing, One bird, around. The screens of a porch Clad dandruff-white stuff, Hanging and clinging The singing gets rough, When then comes another, The other lets up. Two birds, two birds, Now two birds are heard. And then somewhat later The Blackbirds […] Continue reading
…. C.D. Wright, the poet, has died; As well as an actor named Rickman. The news is brief, but only for one – An actor demands attention. ~ “Plenty of people also have died – No news we’d have, if all were then mentioned.” What price do we pay, for someone’s importance? What measures are […] Continue reading
~ The winter birds have moved to town and settled my Maple branches; but not for long, they sing no song, these cronies of Corbies, Comanches! A banded gang of all black bird, bandits that hang in tether. What gives them the right is their power and might, flexing their feathers together. This hungry […] Continue reading
Prologue: The Mexican people, and the native Pueblo, steal from each other, and fight Navajo. Three native nations, just seeking to Be, elides observation, except Apache. ~ Hot! is the color of summer air; boiling, the sand, it spreads everywhere. Water adds value – if only there were; God knows! what value, of nothing […] Continue reading
So there you still go now, So once the young man! Now broken and beat up: Is this how you end? Once we were special! Or thought so, back then – Immortal! we thought us! Such powerful men. Nothing would hurt us, On this we depend: Invincible cowpokes, Of the Rio Grande. To think that […] Continue reading
New Year’s Day 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 of a line, the […] Continue reading
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 