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Not Today, Tumbleweeds

In defense of a poet who didn't deserve harsh words.

You know the saying... 'If you have nothing nice to say..."
I'll not write a reprimand for two rolling bumblers 
that stumbled over themselves in the last two days.

Some people live in a haze, throwing shade at others,
I won't throw hot coals on their heads.
They'll just keep

Categories: tumbleweeds, slam,
Form: Free verse

The Sandpipers Call

The Sandpipers Call

 Sandpipers Call amongst the garbage
 along the shore,
 Tumbleweeds dance from dusk till dawn 
 Tumbleweeds roll as time goes by,
 And time should stand still for love?
 But:
 Only Tumbleweeds roll roll back and fro making love to the wind.
 Flying lost, in a blue sky, 
 never knowing why,
 Doves

Categories: tumbleweeds, allegory, angel, bird, death,
Form: Free verse

Tumbleweeds

Another reminiscence of West Texas. There have been many times in my life when I have felt very much like...

Tumbleweeds,
Lonely searching souls
Adrift on ever-shifting sandy seas,
Roll blindly by.
Spindly, prickly fingers
Rasping, grasping,
Scraping, scratching,
Trailing skeletal ribbons 
Behind them in their wake,
Ephemeral reminders
Of their sad, brief passing
And their desperate,
Vain attempt
To reconnect with earth,
And life,
And each other.
In a brutal

Categories: tumbleweeds, lonely, memory,
Form: Free verse

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Tumbleweeds

Lies, like tumbleweeds, 
Blow, rootless, across
A mindless landscape.
Detached from reality,
One rolls into another,
Collecting, growing
Into a formidable
Tangle of deceptions.
Far and wide they travel,
Dispersing along their way
Their dormant seeds --
Rumors and half-truths,
Alternative “facts” --
And they tumble on, 
But the deed is done.
The seeds that fall on
Fallow land
Will take root there
And flourish,
Spreading and growing
Until their “truths” 
Become “facts”,

Categories: tumbleweeds, political,
Form: Free verse

Tumbleweeds

A sight that no one really needs 
Is piles and piles of tumbleweeds
But that is what I do believe
Was seen out west on New Year's Eve.

Along a stretch of highway there
Were tumbleweeds beyond compare.
The road was closed for 20 miles, 
The drivers stuck not sporting smiles.

It took the crews 10 hours or more
To make the

Categories: tumbleweeds, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Drifted Sand

The wind, careless in its airy freedom,
Feverishly furrows the prairie grass.
With a cry like a lost spirit, it winds
And wails through leafless trees and toothless fence
To vent its eager force upon the boards
Of a lonely, weather-beaten farmhouse.

Afternoon sun shines ashen and mottled,
In slim slanting shafts, through a smoky pane,
Opaquely painting a penumbral room.
Dust motes dance

Categories: tumbleweeds, death, depression, dream, life,
Form: Free verse

Iron Tumbleweeds Titanium Clouds and Babies

Tumbleweeds that weigh one thousand pounds
Roll easier off the tongue than off the cliff
Reach high to find what's up with iron
Then leave the plains behind
Venture over marshmallow mountain roads

One thousand miles from here where clouds reside
Made of pure titanium, dressed up in dynamite
Rusty pink thinking lifts heavy thoughts on pillows
About the mighty tumbleweeds
While babies sleeping

Lighter

Categories: tumbleweeds, appreciation, baby, education, psychological,
Form: Free verse

We May Dance -Like Tumbleweeds 2016-10-20

Oh my beloved skeleton boy
You filled my heart with so much joy
Your hands so nimble in their sockets
Your heartless chest- set off my rockets

My pulse did race with each new scare
like when you looked down at me …from the stair
a ghostly aberration seen
wafting behind your cool death screen

But my skeleton boy… at this pace
we will

Categories: tumbleweeds, love,
Form: Rhyme

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

God saw fit to give unto them birth,
no beauty in its display while upon the earth. 
Quickly the wind throws them about to wander
there are no need of boots to travel over yonder.

Along the countryside not rare,
In due season cast aside their seed to share.
A plant in pursuit of it’s purpose or fate,
existing in

Categories: tumbleweeds, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Tumbleweeds

Memories tumble through my mind, 
rolling aimless, some have been...
missing for a while.
I try to fill in the blanks. Others, 
I sweep into already dusty corners.
You know, the ones far easier forgotten.
Tumbleweeds...my memories
have become tumbleweeds.
I take snapshots of the cherished ones, 
file them away
giving them a home...
before they blow away in the savage wind.
I yell

Categories: tumbleweeds, angst, family, life, loss,
Form: Free verse

Tumbleweeds For Brains

That Woody wanted to see me ASAP,
So we done met near downtown at the KFC.
He says he wants to tell me something FYI,
About some new TFB sorta cowboy guy.

“TFB?” I asks, “You talkin’ ‘bout an IOU
Or that BYOB barn dance the boss done threw?”
“Naw,” says Wood, “TFB means tumbleweeds for brains—
I guess you fills the

Categories: tumbleweeds, cowboy-western, funny, people, me,
Form: Cowboy Poetry