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A Tale From The Loom - I to V

...I let your eyes to visualise a garden on a loom;
Bluebells and marigolds in sway and lavender in bloom;
And there to play in a luscious green two kittens wrestling;
Up high in chirping swallow's p...

The Truth About Men and Women

...***Caveat lector: This piece may very well "ruffle" a few feathers, and I'm sorry about that, guys.***

The female realm has a mysterious equality
Where women share an odd intimacy
Concerning hom...

easter reading

...Easter Reading
In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with
 its best friend, a water buffalo. They had ended up
 here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and
 had been blessed...

All the President’s Men

...It’s one thing to be senile
and lie in your own drool.
It’s another to be President 
and be that droolin’ fool.

So ask yourself, America,
of all the President’s men…
who was runnin’ the c...

The Bitter Bite of Night

...The Bitter Bite of Night!

Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...

after a war and a mask

...After the war

There had been a war that Germany lost
a soldier found a mask made of wood 
in a basement and took it home  as a souvenir
When demobilized, he sold the mask to 
a second-hand sho...

September 17, 1862

...(Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; 2,100 Union dead, 1550 Confederate dead)



the day September seventeenth
	in eighteen sixty-two
found stalks of corn in Maryland
...

Pages

...Separate, we each keep pages within the book of faces.
Alone, we abide in the crowded tome.
As desperate loneliness grabs at us,
we see pages appear in our paths.
Your words touch my soul and min...

Ego death

...To climb Jacob’s ladder
became an ambition
of the earth entity
non-existent.

The object
assuming an ego
took itself to be real
and so set about it’s task.

Following holy scripture...

Colin the Caped Cabbie

...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come...

Rigours and Rewards 18

...Francie folded with the first contraction .Sam had watched her eyes widen as the
amniotic fluid soaked her dress.The contractions began immediately as if a starter pistol had been fired.She could te...

Musings On Faith

...If not now when, thought the universe before going bang 
    Just then, from a point of oblivion, everything sprang 
   Eons later, pregnant mothers start feeling labour pangs 
     Civilisations ...

The Master of the Wind - a Re-Write

...[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry
alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy.
The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there 
She’s ...

The Neptunes Daughter

...Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’
The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water
For twenty years he floundered in a cell; Twas dank and cold
They let him ...

Demon 'Punchers, Part Iii

...III.
He kept off the roads to avoid their eyes,
through scrub and dry grass, onwards he did ride,
skirting north of the ranch, behind a ridgeline,
until he stopped to see what he could find.

S...

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