Prose Poem: Anaphora

~ Dialing.   Ringing.    Answer. Hello.  May I help you? Yes, please.  I would like to schedule an inspection, for fireplace conversion. What kind of work is that? I don’t know.  Haven’t a clue. Is it plumbing? Yeah.  That sounds about right. Okay.  Hold on then.  I’ll transfer you to the inspector.   Dialing.    Ringing.    Answer. […] Continue reading

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Oblivion

~ 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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Red Limousine

~ I never knew much   of celebrity; I never was “up   on the times.”   Much too much busy   after a war, Getting re-fitted   on Uncle Sam’s dime.   An Academe,   a Labyrinthine; Lost in the Halls   of all Arts & Letters.   A Theseus,   of sorts, A […] Continue reading

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Tales of the Tribe

~ This page of paper     these pencil prints   now on an iPad     in pixelized bits   symbolic notations     dark hieroglyphs   a meaning    a message     a hand pictograph   a sign signified     an idiot code   signs imply signals     significance   […] Continue reading

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Fade! Fade!

~ 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

…. 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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Gone to the Bone

~ Nine-Seven-Eight     Sits on a corner, A city, a street,     Somewhere.   A high wooden fence     Surrounds The grounds:     A compound In semblance     In air.   Nine-Seven-Eight.     No one seems home. But people     Do live there, I swear!   It’s quiet,     Threadbare, And gone in the bone: […] Continue reading

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Diamonds in the Rough

 ~ 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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Mañana Por La Mañana

      ~ Those dreams again That keep me awake   The dreams I have That won’t let me sleep   Of those who once were But now who are gone   The black cat is mewing For you to come on   I’m coming        I’m coming I’m coming along   There’s no need […] Continue reading

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Spark of Life

…. O! cold, bright day,   not feeling the best – Where went the spark   of deep interest?   Now, come what may,   stop stealing the rest – Here sent the start   to keep what was left.   The old might say,   revealing repressed, “There vent the heart,   to seek […] Continue reading

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Concessions and Compromises

  Nature, Unforgiving, Takes back from the living, Recants on committed, Retracts what is given, Reneges.   On everything given It strives behind striven, Survives by just living, Nature deprives in the end. Nature’s a Janus faced friend.   My mother had died While I was sleeping. Death came a-creeping, Still while a-sleeping; Death came […] Continue reading

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All That Remains

…. It’s a long, long way to yesterday, a whole lot of water now gone. An uncle once said, It”s been a good day. It comes out in the wash when all done. ~ There are triolets here, a couple more there – then, bit by bit, disappear. I remember it most, the Real wholly […] Continue reading

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Going Virtual On Me

…. I fought a young man On Facebook page,   Where Words Are mightier Than Swords.   Shameful behavior? Yes, I know.   No one the braver, And no one a sage;   But Man! You should’ve seen The other guy! ~     ©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn 20 October 2013  

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Fish Out of Water

…. I moved to the East where they ex-wife had brought me because she so hated New Mexico.   Some folk are like that wherever they go. But I fit in easy, lizard-like so.   So I came to Virginia just ‘out of the blue.’ But really, a ‘toss up’ twixt two States I knew. […] Continue reading

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