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Dong Zhongshu, 179-104 BC

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If you've a yen
(it's not zen)
you may bet your bottom dollar
while integrating yin yang cosmology
Chinese philosopher and scholar
Dong Zhongshu
(good old you know who)
favoured heav...

In the Vault with Walt

...Some say...Walt Whitman's the poet's champ!

His works were well read, by dim oil lamp.

But, oh so long winded,

Those words never ended...

Woe, ritual champ of reader's cramp...

Cutting Room Floor Poems

...Neighborhood Gossip

He walks all alone and does evil things,   
quietly making puppets walk without strings. 
He's the only one who emerged from the wreck.  
When you sleep, he'll stab you in t...

The Devil's Bouquet

...I see demons 
I see ghosts 
Staring at me from the bedposts 
Gargoyles of grotesquery 
Statues of misanthropy 
The Prince of darkness has come for me

There's evil in this room 
I can smell t...

Contest Announcement Poem

...Since I can’t write
May as well read
And sponsor a contest
For free poetry

Hope you will enter
If it’s your desire
Maybe you’ll find
Words that inspire

The contest is for
20 lines or les...

Poets Declare Life's Fragility

..."How fragile is life in nature's forceful wind..."
Dylan Thomas wrote of October gales
and their harsh, buffeting fingers. 
He called them an "autumnal spell."
Autumn...the season when leaves han...

The Magnificent Mouse, A Poem-Story

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         ~ The Magnificent Mouse ~
                      Fiction

A minuscule, humble mouse 
wrote much poetry.
Her eyes, so very tired, she 
almost could not see.

Each day, mouse...

Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell tale

...Brief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale

Living social amidst 
crime infested urban jungle 
bumping uglies cheek to jowl 
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors 
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LETTER TO A TEACHER: FROM A HURT CHILD'S PERSPECTIVE

...I look up to you
With the child in me,
A child that knows no wrong.
I look up to see some comfort somewhere,
that solely in wisdom belong.
They say that teachers are all, so very good.
So long ...

Windswept Through the Eyes of Poets

..."Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly 
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... 
it all fades, except love. Love is forever and thereafter, 
even when we've...

Killers Aim

...
They all think me more than I am
Must be these songs I sing again and again
Even I’m starting to believe in them
I wish I could start this life over again

Till then I’ll forget these feelings...

The Old Farm village

...Down the dirt road of the old farm village,
where the sun sinks low, casting long shadows,
each weathered cottage tells its silent tale.

Creaking porch swings, paint chipped and peeling,
invite...

a short memory

...a short memory

There were and still are two airports on the flatland 
outside of our town, therefore many German soldiers 
where stationed here.
Since roads, and bridges had to be built and mai...

Inner Voice

...Nicorates warned me about you
not so much with words
more in dubiety, 
a clairaudient hesitation

imagine an experienced woodworm
widely travelled and well read 
making peace with a cluttered ...

The Red Diamond

...His heart would flutter, so in love was he.
She was smart, well-read, and a great beauty
So under the moon, on his bended knee, 
He pleaded with her, "Will you marry me?"

The answer, "yes", he ...

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