Tim Ryerson's Blog
 Retired from the printing business in 2011...now happily living in Ponchatoula, LA close to my wonderful (and enormous) family. The bio picture is me holding one of my six great-grandchildren...I spoil all of them rotten because that's my job.
My goal is to write a halfway decent poem sometime...My favorite poets are Robert Frost and Edward Arlington Robinson
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Most Recent Blog Post
Lay Back The Darkness
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Blog Posted:1/4/2013 6:45:00 PM
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Anybody ever heard of this guy?
Every time I read this I get chills If I could ever learn to write like this...
Lay Back the Darkness
by Edward Hirsh
My father in the night shuffling from room to room on an obscure mission through the hallway.
Help me, spirits, to penetrate his dream
and ease his restless passage.
Lay back the darkness for this salesman
who could charm everything but the shadows
an immigrant who stands on the threshold
of a vast night
without his walker or his cane
and cannot remember what he meant to say
though his right arm is raised, as if in prophecy
while his left hand shakes uselessly in warning.
My father in the night shuffling from room to room
is no longer a father or a husband or a son,
but a boy standing at the edge of a forest
listening to the distant cry of wolves,
to wild dogs,
to primitive wingbeats shuddering in the treetops.
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My Poems
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| Date Posted | Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| 5/22/2013 | Read 'Um Like a Book | Tetractys | life, |
| 5/22/2013 | Hank's Pentameter | Senryu | music, |
| 5/18/2013 | Commercial Slam - Part II | Light Poetry | funny,how i feel, |
| 5/16/2013 | The Day I Saw the Earth Move | Choka | nature, |
| 5/15/2013 | Tale of the Tiger | Tanka | sports, |
| 5/15/2013 | How I | Senryu | hate,love,lust, |
| 5/13/2013 | Different Strokes for Different Folks | Free verse (vers libre) | racism, |
| 5/13/2013 | All Kinds of Abuse | List | relationship, |
| 5/11/2013 | No Tomorrow | Free verse (vers libre) | life,philosophy, |
| 5/10/2013 | More Good Lyrics - See Blog | Lyric | music, |
| 5/9/2013 | Never Meant | Senryu | love,lust, |
| 5/8/2013 | Anything and Everything: My Heart Desires | Free verse (vers libre) | life, |
| 5/8/2013 | Jonah | Monorhyme | life,religious, |
| 5/7/2013 | Somewhat Repetitive Fickle Foolish Footles | Footle | funny,giggle,life, |
| 5/6/2013 | Sweet Silver Blue | Kyrielle | lost love, |
| 4/14/2013 | Ego Elevator | Limerick | funny,girl, |
| 4/14/2013 | First Stirrings | Choka | girl,passion, |
| 4/14/2013 | On Troubled Shores | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/12/2013 | The Box by the Bed | Free verse (vers libre) | grief,loss, |
| 4/12/2013 | Wild Hair | Light Poetry | nostalgia, |
| 4/11/2013 | Sight, Scent and Sound | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/11/2013 | Coming Out of the Cage | Light Poetry | animal,funny, |
| 4/10/2013 | Comfortable Silence | Senryu | life,love, |
| 4/9/2013 | Where the Wind Blows | Narrative | natural disasters,nature, |
| 4/8/2013 | Even MORE Somewhat Twisted Thoughts of the Day | Light Poetry | funny,me,day,horse,love,m |
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Fav Poems
| Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| The Sowing | Free verse (vers libre) | devotion |
| A "Brush" with Horror | Limerick | funny |
| The Ice Enchantress | Blank verse | fantasy,sea,seasons |
| Kiss Me | Light Poetry | passion |
| Dearest | Rhyme | devotion,faith,mother,upl |
| He's Their Grandpa | Free verse (vers libre) | dedication,husband, |
| Causalities of War | Elegy | death,war |
| Christmas Miracle in the Ghetto (Co-written with John Moses Freeman) | Narrative | family,holiday,hope,uplif |
| Immortality | Free verse (vers libre) | dedicationheart,music,hea |
| A Boston Tea Party Prelude | Free verse (vers libre) | lost lovehusband,husband, |
| Alliums Cloud My Heart | Lanterne | introspection |
| I want your SEEDS | Free verse (vers libre) | adventure,funny,old,old, |
| Sleeves of the Soul | Free verse (vers libre) | depression,imagination, |
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