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A Certain Feeling in the Air

...
   I say this to all of you
      because it is so true

   I love the Christmas season
      for oh-so-many reasons

   There's a certain feeling in the air
      that just yesterday was no...

Categories: leastways, care, christmas, inspirational,
Form: Couplet

Black and Blue

...The Moon is full and bright.
It's white.
But I know...
it's black;
or, anyway, grey.
And swaddled in the airless
Really Black.
(like me.)

The sun is yellow,
the Sky blue. 
But the sun's a...

Categories: leastways, color, depression, moon, sky,
Form: Free verse

John Moore 1843-1933

...John Moore
1843-1933

I was born with my lungs full of tarnation.
Leastways that was my mother’s version of it.
I do not believe anyone who was ever born, 
Came Into this world kicking,
Leastw...

Categories: leastways, sick,
Form: Epitaph

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Possum Branch Road

...Cedars whisker the ditch along Possum Branch Road.  Such small little fellers, hardly worth calling a tree.  Some say haints put a spell on the whole two thousand arcres.  Maybe so, maybe not, but le...

Categories: leastways, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Less Than 22

...I had a little misunderstanding 'bout a fellas size in shoes, the other night. 
I said he wore a size eight boot, he said he wore a twelve, and you know he's right. 
So Mister if you shake my hand,...

Categories: leastways, adventure, conflict, crazy, dedication,
Form: Lyric

The Trouble With Trolls

...Wait !  the troll said.....
As he jumped in front of him.
You have the smell of humans on you.
Therefore, I can not let you pass thru.
The mouse said, but I have just what you need.
The troll lo...

Categories: leastways, adventure, imagination,
Form: Free verse

A Cowboy's Rapture

...Spring clouds come scuddin’ in the crystal creek blue sky;
A man could ride beneath and never ask them why
Their streaks of white are like the tracks of wagon wheels—
Why he only stares – never sa...

Categories: leastways, inspirationalday, earth, boy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Cowboys and Corrals

...There’s a long tradition of cowboys and their pals,
Watchin’ buckin’ broncos settin’ on wood corrals.
It’s something they enjoys and sure ‘nuff don’t avoids—
But, dern that wood is hard on their o...

Categories: leastways, cowboy-western
Form: Cowboy Poetry

My Mother She Would Love This Poem

...today i went  to
the Sonic
but not for
ice cream

i drove up and talked
with the drive thru
and they were so 
very nice

they gave me what
i wanted and
i did give a
complicated
order

...

Categories: leastways, inspirational, life, loss, love,
Form: Free verse

On the Bitterroot

...It had been some thirty years,
Back when I was young and free—
Before I lost all those fears
And left to see what I could see.

But time can make you humble
As you turn into a coot—
And come b...

Categories: leastways, angst, cowboy-western, introspection, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry