The Pride And The Longing
One man’s ‘Old Days’
another man’s ‘New’
Chasing a memory
the pilgrim is due
One reminisces
what one only schemes
The pride and the longing
— two sides of a dream
(Ardmore Pennsylvania: June, 2025)
Shades Of Gray
Mixing wheat
with the chaff
The good
with the bad
In shadings
of gray
The truth
finds a home
Taking shape
from the whole
When shunning
both ends
Polarity’s
vanish
And clarity
— shown
(Ardmore Pennsylvania: June, 2025)
Categories:
ardmore, time,
Form: Rhyme
God will never reveal
Himself
Until you reveal yourself
to Him
Waxing eternal with
the Divinity he gave you
Reflecting the image
of His every intent
Reaching inside where His light
burns forever
Becoming the fusion
—of all He ordained
(Ardmore Pennsylvania: April, 2023)
Categories:
ardmore, god,
Form: Free verse
We’ve abused our great freedoms
to reap the results
with school and church shootings
hate speech a new cult
No respect for the flag
or sacrifice made
ignoring our veterans
despoiling their graves
Our streets wait in ambush
where the enemy hides
to prowl in a wasteland
where evil decides
The constitution a weapon
to pervert and inflict
traitorous courts
with laws nondescript
And blindly we run
(toward the cliff)
greed our marching song
narcissism the battle cry
—America is gone
(Ardmore Pennsylvania: April, 2023)
Categories:
ardmore, america,
Form: Rhyme
A mustang of denunciation
—maverick of words
(Ardmore Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
Categories:
ardmore, passion,
Form: Free verse
Can you trust
if not equal
Can you hate
if not shown
Can you love
without taking
Can you have
—but not own
(Ardmore Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
Categories:
ardmore, proposal,
Form: Rhyme
oh gosh
here we are comming up on St. Patricks Day
and by some miracle of God
i am forced to write about
some saint named Declan
no, you don't know his name
i did'nt either
but God has a way
of making the unknown known
they say He does'nt share His glory
but that's a lie. God does give glory
or i would'nt be writing about
this fellow Declan
people talk about St.Patrick
but he was'nt the first
to bring christianity to Ireland
15 years before St. Patrick arrived
Declan brought Irelands first christian
settlement in Ardmore
with a monastary that spread
christianity through Ireland.
but the one thing that impressed me
about St. Declan the most was
that he has a stone named after him
a stone that after a prayer
crossed an ocean to retrieve a bell
and on another occassion
guided a boat to safty
they say that the stone still sits
on a somewhat less impressive beach
in Ardmore
i'm writing this because
by mistake i thought Declan
was code for "the klan"
which we all know is not so impresive
in the united states
and as an apology
i was wrong
but a little light from God
replaced a bulb that had went out
and the name Declan has a shiny new coat
to wear this St.Patricks Day
Categories:
ardmore, god, writing, god, writing,
Form: Name
Ardmore
Ardmore is my mother home, my aurora.
Afternoons dancing, acting and playing music kept me busy here.
Apple pies and blue skies had me in an unending state of euphoria.
Acid memories till don’t keep my heart away from you Ardmore.
A smile of heaven and the love of people keeps me knee deep in ambrosia.
Atlanta holds my body with her traffic but you have my heart and mind.
Adrift are my dreams of seeing you again and your pink azaleas.
Alive with happiness my heart is today that I grew up cradled in you.
Categories:
ardmore, anniversaryme, heart, heart, me,
Form: I do not know?