Long Wrangle Poems

First week  of March  2025
Last  week of March
Melancholy Molly and her sister 
Dolly stopped by  for a chat with 
Eat  some pizza Polly 
(nick name due to her Appetite for...

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Courtesy Google, I learned Dynata...mite!

Constitutes the world’s largest
first-party data platform
for insights, activation and measurement

Earlier today August 28th, 2022,
a representative from aforementioned
market research company
fielded political questions to yours truly.

The young lady at other end of telephone
(little...

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The nights dispel wonders and awe 
The days unfold stupendous enigma
Angels are watching over you
As you battle this valiant crusade
A crusade for equality 
A crusade for stability
Enmesh with peace and honesty.
Angels are watching over you...

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I glimpse the tidal waves, rise high,
Sweaty brows drip, a dry.
surf boarders and  dipper are so many,
dolphin rides touts coerce you for just a few penny.

red vested lifeguards always on their toes,
A breath of...

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In the aftermath of the bachelor's silent closure,
A plot with a building, wearied and older,
The nephew-in-law seeks to resolve the tangle,
Amidst power struggles, an intricate wrangle.

Uncertainty looms in the tangled estate,
An array of heirs, their...

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I wrote a great book, part memoir, part novel
Shopped it around, I ain’t too proud to grovel
Got kicked upstairs to a big publishing head
He invited me in, and here's what was said:

This screed you call...

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It stands in the middle of the field looking furiously across the distance with its two ears shooting in the sky and its adrenaline rising up in its feet and running around with fear. 

What...

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Mass of red and gold plumage
blood of supreme incessant immortality flows within
Only I alone can reign stronger
a fortiori
than the army of any man or beast
Symbolic of Christ, ressurection, afterlife
In death redeemed
consumed by fire
only to be...

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Folded mountains settle into the Snake River plains.
Where golden fields flow with rows of tall grains.
His rising peaks sprout juniper, cedar, aspen, and pine.
Whose wild beauty will not be confined.

Sunflowers shriek in the thin mountain...

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My thoughts are scattered about like sand in the wind
Blowing hither and tither without a place to land
Summoning the courage to pick up my scattered thoughts, and finding the 
strength to go on
My frazzled mind...

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he Riders of the Purple Sage
                             ...

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INTRODUCTION:  Hold all applause to the end
Erasing all challengers by moon of night.
Mark of the PANTHER with claws lock jaws
Branding its territory with swift  swipes.

He stalks the jungle
Polite stealth steps, rip raw
He crept
He...

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A cowboy ain't got no use fer the trappin's uv a meetin' house affiliation,
In which to commune with the Lord to git his religious inspiration!
He won't be corralled by a staid and sanctimonious congregation.
He's free...

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Ode to Chores
By Brenda Kahn

When the Good Lord
In his wisdom, Hark!
Said “Separate
the light from dark.”

He surely didn’t
See that time
Would be a scarce
Resource to find

I throw my clothes-wash
In by person
Lest my crazed
Schedule worsen

If I did dark
Then...

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... For Theirs Was A Loyal Love That Would Nay Suffer Guilt
Nor Wander, Nary Wrangle, Nor Waste, Nor Wrong, Nor Wilt
Whether Slow In Coming, Or of A Moment Passing Swift
Not Even An Enemy’s Blade Plunged...

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Spring necked victim 
                  Will be decked again
          ...

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Nowadays I find myself
In church windows reflected
By the surface of my tea,
Too hot to drink.
I try anyway,
My nose against a brick wall,
(This Jasmine is my sledgehammer)
I burn my tongue,
(This Jasmine is a non-factor)
I set it...

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Old Jacob was hard, but that was the only life that he knew,
At fourteen made his first cattle drive and was top hand with the crew.
He could ride, rope, wrangle, and shoot,
And helped to hang...

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I do not intend to make a mess
Though there might be times I run awry
You must be certain I've done my best
Even when unzipped might be my fly
So take me now in a spirit's haste,...

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In the black days of the deadly pogrom
Why thou rose against me with dreadful weapons
Of such magnitude that even the rocks shattered in pain
Never had I imagined this cagey life with hateful brethren
Living in great...

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Hardened by indecision
True conviction's at odd
Recompense beyond belief
Some-time's it get's 
Pretty hard 
To play the part
      ------
From death do us part
From the truth until the
Dawn morning early light
In the heat...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LII - Tongue Tweezers

Tit for Tat
Butter for Fat
Rat for Cat

Left for Right
Day for Night
Might for Right

Tick for Tack
Lick for Lack
Lice for Sack

Rice for Mice
Dice for Vice
Nice for Voice

Sap for Lap
Cap for Gap
Rap for...

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She writes and writes with the works of soul, spirit.
She does so with the heart of God.
She writes about her life's journey, the wonders,
The perils that go along with and during time.
Making her want to...

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Was I a bit too real for you
too raw, like meat bleeding on the butcher’s block
too honest like an angel
as I stripped the skin from my flesh
flesh from my bones
put every prickling nerve on display
every...

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I am eye-deep in a story,
a timeless place that only happens now.

The view from the train window
is as still as a mountain – I may be reading too fast.
The speed of my eyes takes time...

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