Month: October 2018
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TOMORROW TODAY
Tomorrow came late today It wasn’t supposed to be But the day had come to set her free And there she was, and all was out of the way Tomorrow came late today And there was no place left for her to go Street lights turned on and began to glow As her love packed […]
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A MEMORY OF YOU
Here I stand in the light of an early Indian summer sun Look through my eyes where it’s just peaking up over distant hills While you and I stand searching for lions, tigers, sharks, and dragons Of my imagination where we as children used to run When you and I were just 8 years old […]
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A DEATH
A DEATH A distant friend has passed this night Passed and joined another realm, another dance Brandy and death together in a waltz Without tears falling from dry eyes The sorrow of the dancers goes on living Trapped in an eternal ballet as life goes on to die While nature’s odd sorts in pose […]
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A CAST OF ELVIS
A CAST OF ELVIS It was early in the morning Before the sun had chosen to rise While in the West there was reported the coming of a storm For the clouds were stacked up to the top of the sullen sky Thunderheads stood out in darkness forming Telling a sleepy paperboy to carry a […]
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Without a Boat (Amended and rewritten 10/15/2018}
WITHOUT A BOAT (amended/rewritten 10/15/2018) Jesus was a sailor who sailed without a boat He had no need upon that to stand, for he could easily float Above the briny chilling cold and darkest dark of deep Where many sailors struggled and in death there they fell to sleep He had no need to save […]
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WITHOUT A BOAT
WITHOUT A BOAT Jesus was a sailor who sailed without a boat He had no need upon that to stand He had no need to save anyone His force was in league with nature But man and God had suffered a fracture And the book says Jesus came to repair Today he would find sadly […]
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THE TICKET
THE TICKET It is the middle of the night And the railroad freight has just come in A sharp whistle slicing though the silence The engineer has taken his hand from the throttle The sound of escaping steam ends the prayers for the night The passengers all wandered off, boxes, empty boxes Wandering off to […]
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DISAPPEARED
DISAPPEARED Morning comes and I find you are not here Yet we are to believe that you are The bible sellers stand on their stages And claim the same claim from ages And I see about the world and even near Violence that you could easily stop You are a religious star But I […]
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 