The Mad Fiddler of the North, Part Iii
......As the years went by Nick’s playing
came less often, as he wandered,
he just became a vagabond,
going to almshouses in winter.
That’s how he came to Watertown
in the sad last year of his li...
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Categories:
watertown, appreciation, beauty, character, crazy,
Form: Epic
The Mad Fiddler of the North, Part Ii
......His performances went for hours,
even when people drifted off,
he’d kept playing in the tavern
regardless of what others thought.
He would wind down like some old clock,
sometime playing st...
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Categories:
watertown, appreciation, beauty, character, crazy,
Form: Epic
The Mad Fiddler of the North, Part I
...In the year of 1880,
in Watertown, northern New York,
a man walked into an almshouse,
looked no different from other poor.
The man’s dress was quite slovenly,
he was clad in rough leather boot...
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Categories:
watertown, appreciation, beauty, character, crazy,
Form: Epic
At the Window
...AT THE WINDOW
She had cut her hair
and wondered if he liked it
“Not a problem” he said
acutely aware of her perpetual
pattern of cyclical change
She was a Cynthian spirit,
a sensual soul, a...
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Categories:
watertown, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
The Leatherman
...The Leatherman
many years ago let the truth unfold
one man who lived as a hermit
wearing nothing but leather all around him
had walked many miles in New England
he had thoughts of wild exc...
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Categories:
watertown, abuse, america, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Watertown Minnesota
...The Cafe lights glow with the
resisting urge to dim
It's not long before the darkness consumes
this little town I find myself in tonight
Pouring rain, pounding thunder make it hard
to keep my smoke...
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Categories:
watertown, depression, life, loss, on
Form: Free verse
The Ride of Israel Bissell
...Yonder comes the messenger
Forging thicket and thistle;
A young postal carrier
Known as Israel Bissell.
It began in Watertown,
This bold tale of derring-do;
Bearing news of Lexington,
He wou...
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Categories:
watertown, history, warwar, war,
Form: Rhyme