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Army BRATS Always Wanna Fly High

...Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High

The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents
Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S)
Be always on the spotligh...

Mastery

...It's a game, that in order to play it well,
    Requires strength, and precision with touch.
Where no one would claim to be born with it,
    But it's acquired by long hours and such.

While it'...

Texting and sexting as therapy

...
though many men,
(especially former Norwegian
bachelor farmers from Lake Woebegone, -
but one presently wedded
to another female for not quite
thirty orbitz around Mister sun) seek a booty cal...

The other side of the coin

...Most counsellors will tell you,
That its is all about you,
And how it is up to you,
To do everything for you,
To treat you,
And find ways to move forward to a better space,
   for the sake of y...

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO BLESSES US FOR OUR SERVICE

...
March 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 10-12

Key Verse – Judges 10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for...

Pedagogy

...Consider the practice of pedagogy.
Sounds less like a noble profession,
And more like a pervert’s kinky fetish,
A groomer’s form of fieldcraft.
Socrates taught Plato,
Just as Shumann mentored Br...

The Mentor

...I paused to stand and watch a man who had come to the road’s divide,
my wonder soared as I watched his stare slowly shift from side to side.
He stood as if not noticing that many passed him by,
th...

If it Wasn't For Poetry

...
If it wasn’t for poetry, where would I be today?
I would not have developed nearly as many friendships
as I have in the last 24 years since starting out as a poet.
In making friends with lovely ...

Songs of Nature COS No 9: AABB

...Of feet crinkles crispy snaps with your mate,
as the ebbing tides that breaths winter's fate.
Echoes summons a dusty field in white,
closets freed skis and sleds still not quite right.
Few sunflo...

LESSONS FROM STREET MUSICIANS

...Meritorious lessons, verily memorable
meant by organ grinder or street musician I virtually met 
move me to mention my meditations…

Midst his marvelous music
my momentous milestones are...

Wisdom School Brilliance

...Knowledge might at least try
to include the humility of Wisdom
as leftbrain dominant thoughts
co-arise rightbrain subversive feelings

We have not truly hoped 
and actively prayed for wisdom
i...

A Century To the Soup Combined

...Eddie currents confused the conduits in this mind
How can the transformers in the brain go not blind
Confusing is the light, direct me as it's straight shined
Hundreds of emotions imprisoned and c...

Back To You Billy, For Ways I Whiled Away Herding Ennui

...Back to you Billy, for ways I whiled away herding ennui

Ah...a flood of memories wash over
this anointed Goatama Boo Da,
whose respected G.O.A.T status
among generic green acres, 
which swathe...

Tale of the Forgiving Betold

...*Image of Forgiveness by Pixabay.

Tale of the Forgiving Betold

Albeit a notable stretch
that stars wouldst a fairer 
share of thee and sheath
thy warm expanse.

Sire, alack thy...

Thanks

...For hundreds of Moons
Save all the Summers,
You engaged young minds
One youth at a time
Teaching new students.

But that’s not all,
You mentored young
Teachers, with pride.
For many years.
...

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