Tag: writers
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STANDOFF EXCERPT 9.12.19
Walking with a Dead Butterfly Come fly away now gentle butterfly Open your wings and capture a breath of wind Set sail and say goodbye to the world below Let not your heart in pain deny Your right to sail the summer sky For you are special, my valiant friend You’ve come so far in…
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In Georgia
Will have the movers here this weekend to take back what we had delivered here a few months back. Good thing to find out in time the problems with moving here. Will be most happy to get back to our friends in Florida. Have a contract on the property and have an agreement on a…
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Georgia & Footprints in Time
We spent a week in Georgia on our property there. It is was nice but a bit sad. Raining in reality and in relationships. Funny how things can change. When someone is ill from drugs or alcohol and they get straight or die it is generally true that the family and those close by are…
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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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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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TRANSLUCENT
Translucent It was five o’clock in the morning And there’s rain upon the roof It fell hard without any warning When it swept down the road Rushed up through the woods Caught the grassy fields by surprise The wind bent the bushes and the trees Then all was strangely gone And, for some reason, in…
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A Secret Life: Memories from another life.
A friend from a past life told me of a love But sadly he said he doesn’t recall her name That is really such a shame For way back when he was just age 23 I knew him as we worked for the same company He met her in a restaurant where she waitressed Back…
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BACKWASH
BACKWASH Walking backwards in my mind slowly thru time I find myself stranded, just another body standing in line A pathetic piece of flesh and bone Left alive to review all the scrapings my handmade in stone Until the carving knife broke from all the writing And I found that my life was not so…
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A Long Time Ago in the Great Faraway
It was a long time ago in the great faraway When I came to the understanding that I could no longer stay We looked the other way as I stepped out from her front door Harsh words spoken, then silence, nothing left to say, so I guess we settled the score The tale had been…
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 