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A Forty-Niner Named Wiggins

...The word of discovery of gold in '49 in Californy raced across the nation!
Why, it was said you could fill a bushel basket full with little botheration!
This appealed to a young feller in Boston to...

Categories: necessaries, humorous, western,
Form: Rhyme

Moving On

...Tangled in a web of fractious emotions
Siblings venture forth to make a new life
Often leaving behind imagined notions  
Of childhood, sibling rivalries, and strife.

Siblings ventur...

Categories: necessaries, encouraging, family, moving on,
Form: Pantoum

Happiness Beyond Measure

...Is it possible I missed the boat
Which is why I am a dollar short,
I’ve surely struggled to stay afloat
Not living my life for frivolous sport,
But trying my best my load to tote.

...

Categories: necessaries, happiness, me,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Poet Tea

...The night air,
waters (somewhere) burble.
A deer in the dark
hoof-crunches 
yesterday’s now 12 degree snow. 
A mouse moves. In sudden urgency. 
Unseen all. 
Unnoticed, none. 

The moon is lo...

Categories: necessaries, fire, philosophy, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Benin

...A mass of grey and rusted silver strewn
By the sky god from sifted appurtenances.
Preserve of ancients jousting with modernity,
Behind edifice a disperse of brimming slums
With piles, heaps of fi...

Categories: necessaries, africa, art, conflict, confusion,
Form: Verse

The Neat Box

...I've seen a terrible crime, a murder in fact

Ruthless, ugly, menacing; an unpleasant struggle,

She was an unsuspecting victim, strangled, from behind.

It didn't take too long, and then she w...

Categories: necessaries, eulogy, fantasy, home, murder,
Form: Sonnet

I Remember When

...I suppose I'm revealin' my age as I compose this little ditty,
But as I compare costs today with yesteryear I exclaim, "What a pity!"
Gas cost 30 cents per gallon and hamburger was 19 cents a pound...

Categories: necessaries, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Dirt Trail

...Rolling around like their world just came crashing down 
It's better to know the truth then a lie anyway
Getting dirty&losing the state of mind
The common sense that you'd need to survive to shiel...

Categories: necessaries, life
Form: I do not know?

Wish Book

...I browsed thro' an old Sears-Roebuck Catalogue the other day.
The necessaries shown in its pages would be antiquities today.
It illustrated harness, horse shoes, things to tend horse's withers,
An...

Categories: necessaries, nostalgiaold, horse, old,
Form: Rhyme

Ancient Storm

...Distant drums of pompous thunder,
resolute flying lightning bolt.
Evidenced the probable blunder,
played by heaven's musical note.

Castigate the black clouded sky,
it's refusal to disrobe from...

Categories: necessaries, allegory, imagination, life, nature,
Form: I do not know?