Wrangling Poems

Rebel Houston

...Rebel Houston
(Snaps fingers) Acoustic Digital Hybrid... a breath, a fusion. So, what lurks beyond jazz funk, huh?/
 Thinkin' big time, are you? Do you dig? Can you feel it as you pursue your passi...

You’ve Got Your Hands Full

...If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart. The wrangling in of these three boys can be the hardest part.
I’m quite outnumbered everywhere we go, by the looks on their faces, we can rea...

Eternal Verge

...

ravens croak
      applauding twilight	
larks churr
    saluting sunrise
		
a last dance over
an inverted verge.

a perpetual encounter
    the last mesh of murk
         against gleams...

Who's Coming Down The Trail

...I’m moving down a forest trail,
wooden canyon on my right side,
above, on thermals, raptors glide,
always inspires without fail.
I hear a rustle before me,
and wonder just who that could be?

...

momz - or what r u going to do

...I’m enjoying spending time with my mom - we have an intimacy braided like rope. I forgot how funny she is. At the same time, we’ve been softcore arguing for days.

She wants me to accomplish someth...

The Eclipse of Sanity

...Howling winds flung me into the sea
waves lashed kelp ropes around me
my belligerence grew when I was seized
anger brewed the tighter they squeezed

With fists raised and teeth clenched
I resis...

The Tangled Inheritance: A Family's Strife

...In the aftermath of the bachelor's silent closure,
A plot with a building, wearied and older,
The nephew-in-law seeks to resolve the tangle,
Amidst power struggles, an intricate wrangle.

Uncert...

The Scouring

...They came in a single file
Noiseless like wisps of smoke
They'd taken their chances 
For they say it's always greener
On the other side.
From the watch tower I perceived
The procession with a d...

A Few Lines Straight From My Heart

...I'm no legal expert, I'm the first to say
    Nor do I live in Israel, though I'm a citizen anyway
  But it's hard to watch a proposal tear my country apart
    So I'll write a few lines here, str...

Stages of the Same Bob

...When he was Infant Bob 
Often had had to sob 
For a freely shared cob…

As Grown-Up Wrangling Bob
Angrily yanked off knob
After a half paid job… 

Now Climaxed Adult Bob
Would at friends spi...

Not His People, Part Iii

...*  *  *
Five days later the casket was lowered,
and Rico stood there with his red-haired wife,
she held up his two-year old daughter Jan,
he never felt more grateful for his life.

Things had g...

The Distant Storm

...The clouds begin
 off on the horizon shaping, taking form
   images clutching at the season's evolution,
darkening grays once pure white scatterings,
 slivers now full, blackening along the edge ...

The Land

...A sinewy faith built rough cabins.
We were pleased to claim this land
for Jesus.

We raised cities that were bear free.
Everything soared;
later crime and meth rose even 
higher.

Cracks app...

Destination Known

...Destiny favors a measure of intelligence
and we do have control of it
we should rename our path with benevolence
grip the handle with a tight fit
don't let loose for it is our fate we are handlin...

He Got Boo

...Him a day-long star,
a cosmos circled his hips.
Done doubled up 
as a short-order cook,
waltzed like a drag queen
yet he all man-child.
Older ladies curled
his hair, made him flex,
flutter sl...

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