Long Hayloft Poems

...They said the diggings had all been tapped out,
ain’t no way a man could strike it rich now,
but there was work for men, hearty and hale,
had I ever thought of wearing a star?
It’s not the...

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Screaming Guillotines

I.

I sit on the wide veranda of this house called America,
And I can see the Beast Boys coming our jungled way,
Coming like wild torrents of lapping flames over the astonished landscape,
Coming with black eyes...

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My Friend Jim Bean

The highway signs go by so fast.
The whole damn night had been a blast.
There's a red light chasing behind me
and wouldn't you know it I could barely see.
Driving blind drunk and all...

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One of the joys of summer are lightning bugs.Do you remember, as a child, chasing them on a balmy evening? They are so elusive. When you see one in front of you and go to...

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They’re cutting down my apple tree.
Well, I say it was mine, even
Though it was in a neighbor’s field.
She never minded that we climbed
In it, and we often did,
Being such tomboys as we were!
The branches were...

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My master's shaft of light is forbidding;
Still, I have enough sense left to keep hidden.

If he cannot find me, he will not hurt me;
my silence, a bold plea for safety.

Beneath the dank hay, prayer makes...

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I’d plow four rocky acres, maybe even five,
For a taste of the honey from my Honey’s hive.
No one spices the clover like my lover does
When we meet in the meadow and we buzz, buzz, buzz.

She’s...

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Fimbul Frost 
It was cold in the valley domestic animals were snug in barns even hardy sheep 
and goats came indoors. Clear sky and freezing, the moisture in the air turned 
into diamond dust flittering...

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Washing the sleep off my face, at me the sun smiled; 
Telling me it’s a brand new day
A bright young day, a foot to start a mile
And to gather my tools and make some hay
...

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A Sudden Second sight 

It was long ago before horses became a status symbol
 and ponies were rich children´s toy that Egon fell to 
earth, from the hayloft down to the cow shed and he...

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The entire time we spent
Searching through ruins and sands
For a reason or just
An answer that would
Allow us to sleep
But the rain
Didn't come to save us from
The demon's song
So we flew through 
A mirror paved of...

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Embers trailing an afterglow of dawn,
welcoming harmony lingers aloft,
as chess pleasures the first move of its pawn.

That will make Mary quite contrary yawn,
passed Mary was Harry down his hayloft,
embers trailing an afterglow of dawn.

Into the...

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The pig overheard the farmers conversation,
talking about their crops and needing weather salvation,
the farmers saying "it'll probably rain when pigs fly!,"
to help out the pig thought he'd give it a try,

He wallowed out of his...

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CAREFREE AND SIMPLE

my daily fancy
i’d love to live on a farm
in hilly country
mountain peaks in the distance
the animals all carefree

then a further thought
we’d have a good fishing pond
oh, not a huge lake
just large enough to...

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Security at the Hen House

All around the peaceful barn yard				 	
  everyone’s  sleeping while I’m on graveyard		 			
    watching for the shrewd  fox dude	
		 
Cock-a-doodle-doo! I spew				 
 ...

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The barn is hollowed by time,
greased by phantom tractor engines.
A rusting spade and shotgun,
laid-up in the shadowy bygone.
A dusty hayloft full of owl songs.

The mice are out in the fields,
where the corn once waved as...

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The Sin of a Priest

At a school outing, the pupils stayed overnight
Sleeping on a barn hayloft
the leader was a cherubic-looking priest
Blond and chubbily fat.
In the night, the priest's hand sought and found
What it was looking...

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The Sin of a Priest

At a school outing, the pupils stayed overnight
Sleeping on a barn hayloft
the leader was a cherubic-looking priest
Blond and chubbily fat.
In the night, the priest's hand sought and found
What it was looking...

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