some things

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

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SKYLINE 2014 from Cyberworld Publishing

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

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And The World Will Still Roll On

(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

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Nacho de Macho

~ 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

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Ars Vivendi

~ 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

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Ariadne’s Twine

~ “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

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Disappearance

~ 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

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Evolution

~ 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

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Latter Day Man

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

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a moment on moment

~ 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

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For Two Tales To End Well

~ 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

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The Logos

~ I am so blind, I’ve lost my night vision. Each day Unto next I forget   I’m used to familiar, The routine of head, Not close, But at most A close fit.   And time, when it then comes, As time always will, It laughs when I ask it To stop and stand still. […] Continue reading

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Dos Mundos

~ In Charlottesville      there are four seasons; For Farmington,      less so.   Equidistant      more than reason; For Farmington,      more snow.   I live apart,      two separate worlds –   One, in culture,      East Coast finds; Another features      high terrains.   Of which, does Nature      or human creature, […] Continue reading

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Equivoque

~ 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

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