Long Tick off Poems

I was a private detective, and I was deemed one of the best,
As the colorful tulip fields, are forever attracting guests.

My skills seemed often in demand, and indeed kept me moving,
As gold days seem to...

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As we sit in anticipation watching the clock countdown
Our minds racing filled with thoughts of renaissance
The talk turns slowly to the making of vows 
And we think about sleep and the years reset 
After everything...

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After "Being a Person" by William Stafford

“suddenly this dream you are having matches
everyone’s dream, and the result is the world” 
the synchronicity, perfect 
beating like a heart in a box
the ticking of a metronome 
swing,...

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The queue was long, fifty or so,
Spacesuits donned, ready to go.
With wife and son, of ten years old
We await our journey to unfold.

Earths orbit was good, the moon even better,
But Mars signifies the true jet...

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And then ..
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

And then..
The ribbon and the cuff link
Escort the gent..
That annoy
Man about a woman
On the long wait
Of her dress up
But then..
The afterward will
Be splendid
When the deal is done
The beauty of her
Smart on your...

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Death is an experience life has prepared me for ~ by poet.

As the years accumulate.... like so much dust;
                ...

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Time

Like a shimmery satin
Ribbon blowing in the wind
Time slips and twists,
Its meaning constantly shifting.
How much time is there?
Do we have time? How long?
Can space be time?  Is there
Only a certain space of time
In which...

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I hike as I've hiked a thousand times gone
          But curved like a serpent, the path that I'm on

The scrunching of steps in the snow as...

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The usurpation of the annual right of solstice
by a quarrelsome religious upstart,
Lead to the re-designation of the celebration
due to its now newly designated Holy part.

In order for a connection to be formed
between the Lord and...

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It seems that I am getting old and grey,
my body's also slowing down its pace.
But, I've still much to do, and much to say.

It seems to me that life is like a race,
It starts off...

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Wordsworth wrote, in 'Splendor in the Grass,'
about the glory that can be found in the flower.
He alluded to a love that had long since passed,
like clock hands tick off each second and hour.

He was saddened...

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"To do is to be" - Descartes 
"To be is to do" - Voltaire 
"Do be do be do" - Frank Sinatra

"To do is to be" - Nietzche
"To be is to do" - Kant
"Do be...

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    like heavy snow 'pon cedar boughs
        those shadows, long through winter
my conscience weighs the thens and nows
       ...

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Mexico again and more Injun and back to Mexico,
Tick off Lakota, Dakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho,
The Great Sioux War and lots more fuss before we invade Brazil,
Let’s hop around some islands first (punch out the Yaqui...

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Time being colossal, 
a spin had to be found,
two covers, a book we call
it a beginning and an end.
In time we tick off a digestible
portion;
calling it our own,
walking between the covers
hoping never to get lost...

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With rod and reel and bait in hand
They set out from dry dusty land
Six pretend pirate wanna be's
To terrorize fish repeatedly 

Three each, port and starboard side
Anticipating the coming tide
Far away from safety's shore 
These...

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My first chemo ended yesterday
I’ve 11 more to go
And so far I am glad to say
I’m none the worst for show
But
Tuesday of the next week
My belly starts to ache
My colon starts to back up
My insides...

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The bedroom door slightly open tonight
With a spread of dim night light 
Shining through, into the room.
Streaming in my head
Music- anthems of hope and light
Not a heartthrob to avoid.
Why does my drama feel less painful,
Once...

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DON’T TICK OFF THE DUMMY

he’s irate from the yelling,
there’s no telling what will befall the scene, before sundown.

Paul Newman’s balancing act
becomes unhinged...

the drop happens at the precipice of a proud building,
this dummy slips and plummets.

a...

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Science improves things, so they say,
can't prove it by me, take the clock
once it swung, and cockco's played
now it's silent, no tick or tock.

Old clocks clucked each tick and each tock
tongue to roof, they made...

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the edge of town arrives quickly.
You hang an inscrutable left
only to discover
one beat-up clapperboard hulk
hanging over tall corn
as if land-wrecked.
or
you drive to the end of
a suburban tract
and while waiting for the lights
a blue wash of...

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I have a tick on my nose.
As it sucks blood, it grows.
When my ex-girlfriend saw it, it was too much for her.
She screamed at the top of her lungs and ran away in horror.
I can't...

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"Time... Always here but never here." By Poet

Time my funny friend,
I cannot see you or feel you.
Yet time you are always with me,
from morning until night.
The clocks tick off,
the many minutes and hours.
The calendar takes...

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