It was our pride and joy, that boat...our prize.
We'd sail to Key West every year in fall,
After summer downpours left the noon.
We made our pact there as we both had suffered
from the plague ungluing all our lives.
Now, I'm here next to his pallid body -
pale blue masque on, jaw aslack, grotesque.
He made the leap; he had escaped, was gone
Upon a journey I could not attend.
He left me all alone to to sail solo.
Yet, he was captain and I his lowly mate.
Who would pull the spinnaker to catch the breeze?
Or talk with me as a person, unaffected?
Now, I was all alone just cast upon the water...
I sold that boat...
Categories:
ungluing, absence, adventure, boat, boyfriend,
Form: Sonnet
Slavery and Unsavory
Was quite a character and so unsavory;
Had heard his attitude towards slavery
Was let each on have life of their own;
A message from God caste in stone.
Treat with respect God simply did say;
When needing help never turn away;
With our minds what must we be doing?
About ensuing facts and their ungluing.
When much better we want world to be
Does it really require a certain ceremony:
More knowledge into mind must be feed,
And others in circles don't like to be led.
As in much heat shall start to swelter
Running here and there helter-skelter
Challenge you to do the same to me
So we will be a product of all history.
What should we have become a slave to?
And when whole day is finally through,
Never again will I ever be left alone
People will want my poems for their own.
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran
www.story-telling-around-the-world.com
Categories:
ungluing, peace, people, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Happiness is not a thing
That can be guaranteed.
Satisfaction is, we’re told
In words we hear or read.
But in that famous document
Declaring we were free,
Pursuit of happiness was writ,
With life and liberty.
Yet finding what we want
Has no relation to pursuing,
For joy’s elusive and the search
Might lead to our ungluing.
The signers of the Declaration
Surely were astute
When they didn’t grant us happiness,
But only its pursuit.
Categories:
ungluing, happiness,
Form: Rhyme