The Nines

~ Nine is a number     assigned to a month.   Nine is the number     to months of the year   We pass through     to get to to finally reach here.   Remember    September     Ninth month    of the year.     ~ Three quarters an annum,     three fourths so near   […] Continue reading

Rate this:

cada día

  every day    a saturday each day    the same       when old   savor    the day save it    away set up    some rainy day    goal   don’t waste    one day wishing    away each day    posthaste as droll   five sevenths    of life when seen    […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Who Will Boo Hoo?

~ The house was empty, barren and lone. Discarded now, but once was a home.   Now, all abandoned, it’s owners were gone, ’til three young teenagers had happened along.   Who once had lived there nobody knew. Four small rooms, a small bathroom, too.   Perhaps, who lived here had simply outgrew the lack […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Prototype

…. Oh! Rio Puerco, we’ve met where before?   Cuba?     Arizona? No water, but sand.   And here now Isleta, near the Rio Grande.   Oh, Rio Puerco, you’re everywhere then.   Empty with promise to come back again,   so, Rio Puerco, you’ve stretched yourself thin.   A dead bed sans water, dry dirt […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Karin

… no hurricane hit     the US this year only a storm     called Karin.   the only relieved,     the one she left there – a spouse     in the briny left carin’   a mate     she would hate because     the ingrate   mixed up her name     with an old flame […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Politics 113

~ A war is proceeding, It’s not “Over There.” No drums Nor bugles, No Standards to bear.   Just back-alley deals, And clandestine dares. One troop in trouble, A rupture is near.   It’s foe, though out-numbered, The club doesn’t care. The Business of business, A sordid affair.   The loss through this all, A […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Time Takes Me There

~ This day, tomorrow,       I plan to be here.   At this time, mañana,       I’m going nowhere.   Time will be moving,       And thus will be proving,   By simply behooving,       Time takes me there.   I only borrow       What Time lets me share.   So this Time the morrow, […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Mesa Verde

~ Pueblo por Pueblo Stacked within arms To protect you, Secreto, From dangerous harms.   Some blessed by agua, Some, none at all. Pueblo poor Pueblo, Stone, in stone walls.   One year, acuerdo, Another, que no.   ¿Estuve que libre, En stanzas escriben, Que hace contigo Libre también, O este de no?   Pueblo […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Aperture

  One day The day will come Some say That way’s long done One day The day was gone Some day A need of gun Some way It will be done Day one Some say has come Today   ©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn 18 September 2013 0.6  

Rate this:

An Idea of Reason

~ In nearing the end     of Summertime season, One wonders where Winter,     Spring and Fall go.   The Young Ones     who made it,  thus far,          are still here – Amazing,     since Chance         is a Fiction  unknown.   As Fledglings depart,     it marks a new season; It begins just […] Continue reading

Rate this:

A Red Badge of Courage

  “That’s what you need. A button, a card, to prove you’re indeed.”   And all I had asked: “A discount for vets?”   I laid down my Key-Fobs, once hung ’round my neck.   “These are called ‘Dog-Tags,’ will they do the trick?”   “Oh no, Sir, I’m sorry. You’ll still need a button: […] Continue reading

Rate this:

One Day Will Come

  The weather seems perfect    in Honolulu Even if rain    on old Oahu.   It never lasts long    but comes and then goes, The weather is perfect    in Honolulu.   Three times per day,    maybe some more; Some rains last longer,    like that or a war.   Two-Hundred years,    a revolving door, Each generation    (which […] Continue reading

Rate this:

segues

  the old man lies     and waits for again the day, a night,     an hour to end   somewhere, elsewhere     a son’s life begins the father remembers     the lad holding ten   and wonders, if rather     his son recalls him somewhere, someplace     a chapter opens   on new life, […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Chimera

~ A bloom of love     loses the head a minute    an hour     grows old.   One small child,     both lost in the while, the mind     a refuge    for gold.   A new moon    to slough     a cusp    overhead – Behold!    […] Continue reading

Rate this:

Just Goes to Show

~ If Easy Rider     was so great Why then still,     do I still hate   This movie made     so second rate, Best Picture,     they gave     in Sixty-Eight!   Just goes to show     what kind of state A Sixty-Seven     mind could make. This money making     big mistake, Went […] Continue reading

Rate this: