…. Alice E Henley, Let’s make this easy: She was born In Kentucky, Nearer Tennessee, A smart August baby In media res. Even when spirits Swear “Fin de Siècle,” Still it was ten years Into the new century. And Alice E Henley Had no erudition – Low education, In that part of […] Continue reading
~ In the Moments of Eternity I draw from me an Ecstasy – It comes to me, Discovery! Epiphany, and Euphony. A Symphony from Tympany Parodies Cacophony. Such Parity in Moiety Ought not to be what […] Continue reading
~ A squirrel lie unfurled, from end-to-end curled, near a corner, on the sidewalk, by the street. My dog stops to smell, but she cannot tell what chance there befell her, she greets. The small gray squirrel now gone to the world, in soul, but body it keeps. One […] Continue reading
so funny is memory of something not there snippets of moments vignettes of what were the murmur of voices no one will hear to recollect faces none now can wear of those who once were and no longer here so funny the memory of places somewhere of that which once was now no longer there […] 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
…. Okay, I submit I sustain myself. My Passion At Youth Once a High. And now, On track, In the last laps of life I find all of That Left behind. # But, The Mind Is still here! But I swear, Doesn’t care. It […] 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
~ 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
~ 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
…. She was fifteen, he, twenty-one, to me, an exceptional difference. He was just back from Nam and she had exceptional preference. Hell! it couldn’t be wrong her being so young; besides, himself was twenty-one. Dark secrets come slowly undone. ‘Twas the age of the Sixties, though Seventy, young; the past can not […] Continue reading
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 