~ They cluster in order To gather the nectar. The goal For the whole – Survive! Each one, Alone; En masse, At home. They strive That the hive Will then thrive. Colony rectors; Each one, protector; For the six weeks, At least! […] Continue reading
I don’t know, but think so. I don’t understand. I’m slow on the up-take, But fast with a hand To help a good neighbor, Or helping a friend – I glow in the up-beat, A latter day man. What Charlie hath saith I dare countermand, But Natural Selection? It’s more […] Continue reading
~ a table, a chair, immobile air; outside comfort, a languid affair. a robin appears, thinks it quite queer, one man at table, sitting in chair. ~ hello, mister robin, oh, so aware. the man at the table and robin each stare, one unto other when another appears: an indigo bunting from out of nowhere. […] Continue reading
~ Here are two stories that need being told, One of the young man, the other of old: Into the young eyes pristinely set cold, Each thing a new ring inwardly flows. ~ An old man before him bears dust and grows mold – For reverence, first severance, […] Continue reading
~ Someone complaining of recent affairs: “The country was ‘falling apart.” He was airing ‘our’ laundry with someone else there – a Jan Van Someone, not from ’round here. “There isn’t one race that runs the whole place. That is your problem I fear. […] Continue reading
i My, Oh My! Oh my! What a sight. I saw her again. I saw her last night. She lit up the air In her radiant white. My, Oh My! The goddess of light. Always, on toward; Somewhere, but forward. Onward, endured, The mantel of Right. Steadfast, assured; Implacably froward; Fast […] Continue reading
~ There’s just so much non-sense a soul can endure From the trivial minded, decided, obdure. I met one once lambasting for sure The current administration: denigration, impure. Oh sure. They do it. Again and again. Forever and ever, and on to no end. Things are […] Continue reading
~ Alvin Valdez and I would wend Our way down main at lunchtime. A bookstore in store much long before The store became such the main focus. A conglomerate deal With central appeal To the coffeehouse weal, The Barnes and Noble house status. A long tall hall, poor light and all, […] Continue reading
~ A blank sheet of paper Awaits to be filled; Marks, unto letters; Words, to be spilled. Lines, run to margins, To keep them entailed: Thoughts put on paper, Potential, trammelled. Like gardens that taper From fresh fallowed fields, Thoughts are the crops, […] Continue reading
~ The sun shines bright even at night where millions of stars show off their lights in Navy blue sky pinpricked by sight, Nightlights highlights the ground all around ‘Til the moon takes her flight and drowns the crowd down. Ah! las tierra bella […] Continue reading
~ Austin, Texas is ten times bigger Than the town that I used to know. Those Longhorn Steers, the way I figure, Fifty some-odd years ago, Were 80k number where now it’s just under A million or more souls or so. Should I go back there […] Continue reading
~ Keswick is large, but not Bed & Breakfast; Rather, an Inn or resort. Very expensive, old English style; Fox Hunts with Hounds and the Horns. Having retired, and part of the Perks, The company let us a weekend. My wife and I chose, that close to Easter, When Winter weather averts. […] Continue reading
~ Out in the country, a man forms in line, at a store to pay for his gas. I stand behind him, making the line; another, falls in close behind me. The man in the front hands a Fifty Dollar bill to the clerk. She holds it on purpose, up to the light, and marks […] Continue reading
~ 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
~ 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
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 