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
~ 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
~ it snows in the mountains it sleets on the plains down to the coastlines it all turns to rain winter befalls us cold hard and fast and memory serves us conserves us at best by knowing that spring renews us at last relief would then tell us when winter […] Continue reading
~ 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
~ 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
~ 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
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 