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Our Restless GenZees Winds That Scatter and Gather

...They are a generation that is disillusioned and disgruntled with the Status Quo
Ever they are faulting the old guard for running our most beloved country down
Most of them are very techno savvy and...

An Abandoned Rural Station

...A former place this, a patch where roots rattle,
where stubble has a ferrous frizzle.
A long-truncated railroad stop
humming still with a faded reality.

As dry voices on the wind, they return
...

Temptation

...Last night I met a gypsy girl, 
Temptation was her name. 
A breathless brazen beauty, 
a drop-dead gorgeous dame. 

I went to get my fortune told, 
ten dollars was a steal.
This magic mystic m...

Two Mules

...
Two Mules
Miracle Man
4/7/2025

It’s so easy to plow when things always please,
when one is stubborn the other must appease, 

But when harnessed together both must believe.
then be...

Handsome Harry and Hayseed Hank Handle Honey

...handsome Harry hastily harnessed hazardous hayseed Hank
heightening his hellish heebie-jeebies.
Hank helped Harry handle hordes of high-spirited hitchhikers
heaping a hodgepodge of hocus pocus on ...

The Next Zimbabwe - A call to rise

...**The Next Zimbabwe: A Call to Rise**

In lands where dreams were forged in fire,  
A tale of strength, of fierce desire,  
From ashes of despair, they’ve learned to climb,  
Zimbabwe’s spirit s...

Hesiod: Ares translation by Michael R Burch

...Ares
by Hesiod
translation by Michael R. Burch

Ares, exceeding all men in manliness, bronze-harnessed charioteer, golden-helmed gladiator, strong-armed spear-hurler, dauntless shield-bearer, cou...

Windswept Dreams

...On the edge where sea meets sky,  
A canvas stretched, the kites soar high.  
With every gust, my spirit flies,  
Chasing waves beneath the blue skies.

Harnessed freedom, the ocean's embrace,  ...

Tears

...God, who never gives us more than we can bear…will always make a way for our over-whelmed souls to find relief. Amen. And we press-on.


He said…
he awoke…to find…
Tears…
streaming… his face
a...

Steampunk

...In the copper-clad cradle of time
where gears whir fugues to forgotten dreams.....
the fog—a somnolent specter—drifts.....
veiling the calculus of progress
a manuscript etched by steam and soot.
...

She Reigns, Enter, the Queen

...She Reigns

Tis not today which thee will fail, Harken! Harken! My harnessed veil.
Venom may sweep your gaze away. Travesty! Dare not to look my way.
O, no, but come now, lovers. Give my course g...

Dasher and Dancer's Christmas Eve Call Offs

...
It was Christmas Eve night and Santa was in a pickle
when Dasher was caught giving Blitzen a quick tickle
He and Dancer had been seriously dating for a year
but his flirtatious ways had her cryi...

Bloom

...I would rather cling to the edge of a cliff as an ugly, wiry, 
weed
than be a beautiful rose confined to a pot. 

They try to unfold your velvet petals with their clumsy, feeble 
hands, 
wherea...

Twas The Night Before Christmas Eve

...
’Twas the night before Christmas Eve and it started to snow
And a raw bone chilling north wind was starting to blow
Mrs Claus and Santa were relaxing with a glass of mulled wine
Santa said, ...

Kingdom Come

...Kingdom come, amid men whose secure custody
I can hear it yield promises then relinquish final copy.

Stumbled on ancestral stone which once ago protect
Those that ensure their existence human ho...

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