Just The Poet

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

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Nursery Rhymes

~ Little Jack Horner,     still lives in some corner of the mind,     if memory’s right.   ‘Twas something he’d done to a plumb with his thumb I’d read as a kid in some rhyme.   I favored, rather,  those of the others – The poems      with purloined overtones.   […] Continue reading

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Napoleon’s Waltz

~ Dear Heart,  this is just crazy! It’s crazy and wacky, and so tacky, too.   It’s crazy to ask me, and whacky as well. It’s crazy and wacky what you want me to do.   It’s not that I’m lazy. Oh no!  I’m not lazy! And it’s not that I’m Crazy, what you ask […] Continue reading

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You Are What You Eat

~ A fly in the ointment,       had no appointment; he did what he wanted to do:   All was free-fare       with everything there! and he fed to his fill until through.   Then being thus sated,       still nothing abated his eating – so he ate, and he ate.   Now, the fly […] Continue reading

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Bury me under the Joshua Tree

~ Bury me under the Joshua Tree, it’s said to live for two-hundred years, and then, maybe some more.   One, two, three or some sundried hundreds of years, is for sure.   And who wants to stay when they’re mostly away from Life and its Strife and all passion?   I’m telling you, if […] Continue reading

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