Grantham Poems

Rinkydinks: Volume 4

...Q: How does film actress Meryl get censored on Jimmy Kimmel?
A: With a Streep bleep.

Q: What are Russian citizens doing to show approval for President Vladimir?
A: They're rootin' for Putin.

...

Silence

...Keep your words close
 —but silence closer

(Grantham New Hampshire: July, 2016)...

Only What Is

...You can’t alter reality
with an opinion

You can’t alter reality
with a drug

To alter reality, 
you must force away time

Defining the indefinable
—leaving only what is

(Grantham New Ha...

Contraband

...Do you play inside the Corn Flakes,
or are corn stalks more you game

Is that Hersey Bar the answer,
or the cocoa or cocaine

Do you clerk for someone’s feelings,
inspiration to be damned

Y...

A Smoldering Refrain

...Straddling the candle,
too close to the flame

A fiery benediction
—a smoldering refrain

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)...

Truth To Thaw

...A hunter of the frozen past…
I stalk all glaciered time

To kill the demon inside the ice,
with eyes that burn—its truth to thaw

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)...

Morgan Freeman Got It Right

...There is no… 
 African American history,
 Native American history,
 Irish American history,
 Italian American history,
 German American history,
 Chinese American history,
 Hispanic American h...

Still To Run

...Your page now short on substance,
yet colorful the rhyme

The words used in abundance,
where lesser might define

Intention slave to beauty,
all meaning zero sum

Pageantry lost in the wind
...

A Smoldering Refrain

...Straddling the candle,
too close to the flame

A fiery benediction
—a smoldering refrain

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)...

The Moment Sustained

...Each verbal success
  leads to higher new ground

Where the words beck and call
  with a heavenly sound

The trail to my future
   fades into my past

As the gift they inspire
  —my present...

The Piper

...Drunk on the fear of our own misgivings,
  we stagger and stray…
     —toward the sound of the piper

(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)...

Forgotten Lord

...Deep into the night of the harrowing dawn,
  old voices went astray

And fast on the morning of no return,
  final judgment came to stay

Crashing like a wave was the prophet’s voice,
  this t...

Hard Won

...We can all think 
  differently

While instantaneously feeling 
  the same

We can politically straddle the
  great divide

While below loving the canyons
  and plains

We can put all pre...

Changed Into Song

...Will the pieces of the life you’ve lived
  come together at the end?

Will the times that you reflected
  straighten your path out, free of bends?

Are the places that you visited
  more than ...

Perform a U - Turn

...It should be really easy
To get to Grantham right on time
Unless, that is, your Sat Nav
Is as troublesome as mine

I have the postcode ready
And I’m sure I’ve got it right
But my Sat Nav seems...

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