~ 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
Just The Poet I’m just the poet; A real simple man. Humble disquiet Pours forth, From hand. None there Dare read me; Nor me, Understand. I’m just a poet, With words In my pen. No one Reads poetry! Lest, the poet Be dead. Somewhere, Someone, Sometime had said. Well… This one’s A short one. Not […] Continue reading
~ Here is a story that needs to be told: Eternal Recurrence, gets lost in the fold. This story begins at the end of a war, the war we would win, before would be more. As spoils go to victors, the mantle was […] 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
The wagons, encircled, the gates have been drawn. Unless a devotee it might turn out wrong. All bits and pieces, at one time, a song. I used to be out there, but didn’t belong. Now, I’m back inside – […] Continue reading
together again just me and my friend what’s your name it’s the same you should know the wind’s up a trifle but Oh so delightful once again here’s my friend off we go we’ve been here before many years maybe more still the […] Continue reading
SKYLINE 2014 This Central Virginia Writers anthology is available in e-book and print, with a discount code, from our website. This collection of prose and poetry shows the very high standard of writing that the region can produce. Central Virginia is the home to many famous professional writers and some outstanding and yet to be […] Continue reading
My sister-in-law Claims to have seen her, The ghost in my house, Hiding upstairs. But then, again, She is from Texas. They must teach ’em different Matter out there. “The ghost? In your house? Hiding upstairs?” Oh no! Not her, But folks down in Texas. “Afraid I can’t say much On those folk in […] Continue reading
(For Danny Welborn) ~ Some say in dying, you get what you get; a suicide number on someone’s hit list. A social statistic; a news item flair; a cousin of cousins may hear it somewhere. First comes the daughter, too pretty, unfair; then falls a baby, it couldn’t breathe air. […] Continue reading
~ He loves it when women come into view: He thinks about sex – If they only knew! The young ones, the old ones, and pretty ones too – Indiscriminate! he is, to all but a few. His wife will not bother, she doesn’t care – She knows […] Continue reading
~ Hail! to the mountains, munificent land. Symbols of power, they tower, transcend. Praise for the rivers, the mountains then send down unto oceans, that nest next to sand. Here’s to the oceans, on which life depends. We forget how, somehow, everything blends. Blessed be hours, too short, that life lends; the glorious stories, each […] Continue reading
~ “to write a poem is to explore the unknown capacities of mind….” well if that be the case then mine is well known it being the most capacious of kind there is so much space I get lost in the place where most times I’m […] Continue reading
~ Once was a family, A patriarch, head; Now, an anomaly; The patriarch dead. No bond can hold up, For long, I am told; But then, each a story, Uniquely condoled. Patriarch, matriarch, Of figurehead, old; Each category Obliquely extolled. Out from disorder An order […] Continue reading
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 