~ I pass by your house, such a lovely estate! Compared to your neighbors, it looks you’ve done great. I’ve looked upon you; we’ve met face to face – Worlds upon worlds, where small worlds encase. Yet, both of us come from different directions – Yours, from a low life; mine, not that […] Continue reading
…. Okay, I submit I sustain myself. My Passion At Youth Once a High. And now, On track, In the last laps of life I find all of That Left behind. # But, The Mind Is still here! But I swear, Doesn’t care. It […] Continue reading
~ And Sixty-Seven Ended much different, A difference from whence it began. Ed was a cousin; Ed was a friend; And we never saw Edward again. One decade long in the life of one man, Is not so much long to the span. But that’s where and what We […] 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
~ 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
~ 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
~ 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
~ Each day As I watch it, It slowly evades. Fade! Fade! It all fades away. Time, Oh Time! It slides by, Away! It goes by, Flies by! Belies us, Some say. It changes, Erases, Turns faces to gray. Fade! Fade! […] Continue reading
~ The hardest part is doing the right, But then, it takes time to know it. I heard it once said: “Thirty years make a man.” But now, I’m not so sure of it. At twice the space I err just as much – I count all the […] Continue reading
…. This is the month That my mother died. The year fades fast To memory. It must have been written In pencil somewhere, On paper, And there set in stone; And after awhile, It all erases. ~ Befuddled, perplexed; At sevens and six; Forwards, sideways, And backwards: The […] Continue reading
~ Those dreams again That keep me awake The dreams I have That won’t let me sleep Of those who once were But now who are gone The black cat is mewing For you to come on I’m coming I’m coming I’m coming along There’s no need […] Continue reading
The end begun began the story It takes some time to burnish a boy The wind the sun the sand the boy Time waits for man to finish the story ©2013, Marvin […] Continue reading
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
~ 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
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 