Do Not Go Down

~ When this old world finally winds down and we’re not around, forgotten, passe, we will have said what we’ve had to say; we will have made our day.   ~ Do not go downnot making a sound. Shake up the ground,make it profound. Done!  Done!  When everything’s gone, Make it renown what you say. […] Continue reading

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Middle Fenced

~ I once had Thanksgiving in New Mexico With a family I also once had. That was many, many moons ago; And many moons have long since passed.   And I find myself here, still middle-fenced. As some things still stay, some move on hence, And leads me to the story, which follows:   ~ […] Continue reading

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Imprimis

~ In the first place, I set out To write down a poem – ~ The best one As yet to be done. ~ Unspoken, Unwritten, Unheard of, Undone. ~ In imminence, It’s eminence, Still was. ~   ©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn revised 08 April 2014.

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An Irony of Bees

~ She gives of her life     For the sake of the hive: Her goal gives meaning to life. ~ The hive and the queen,     Both must survive! This be the reason she’s alive. ~ No thought of the Self.     No saving of Soul. No purpose to reason the Goal. […] Continue reading

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Expectations

~ I went to a poetry reading but I didn’t know anyone there.   And the quorum was small, maybe twenty in all – I’d expected a larger affair!   When half-way through presentations self-importance, all itself, just left.   It left me bereft, except expectations, which in due time itself grew upset.   It […] Continue reading

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The Sand Pebbles

~ I tossed a pebble on to a beach – It did not go far, but under.  ~ The sand   so soft, too subtle   for feet; ’twas here, where the rock, surrendered.  ~ And then, at another, on some other shore, I repeated this action once more.  ~ Where before, it was soft, […] Continue reading

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