Fingers of those golden rays dance across the lines where the darkness meets the darker out on the ridge of pines and the morning dew cast diamonds that no-one can bear away and day begins its trek again, that's always been the way. And I rub the stubborn sleep from old eyes that want to... Read more
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Lonely Temptations
There's a lonelypast the wishing, that someone else was near..It feels a lot like emptiness, a bitter taste like fear..A place so dark that stars are lost, so deep the heart is crushed.. A cold and rough remembrance, that you can never trust.You wonder how you got here, what lies you so believed, that you... Read more
The Horseman
The noose doth tighten, and in the distant darkness the smile of death rests upon the icy cold shoulders of a black steed.. He waiteth, not impatiently, but with cruel and uncaring malice, for the final stitch; the last and ending gasp that signals the great challenge of being is over, the test of mortality... Read more
Poets’ Spirit
The words, empty and meaningless, without purpose, strength or ability, change no views, sharpen no sense, and define no sentiment.. Like paint in a bucket, to be splashed upon the surface of our lives, creating nothing, but a landscape of banality, until touched by the spirit of the poet, who breathes life to their form,... Read more
Mother Remembered
From infancy through childhood, to manhood, where I am, You gave your every living breath, to help me understand;That life is more than hunt and peck, nor just a party grand,and what I do from day to day, shows not all that I am. You took on all my problems, with love and thought and... Read more
The Bake before Christmas
Twas a week (more or less) before Christmas and panic set in Momma knew that the baking prep had to begin There was butter to buy, nuts and chocolate in bulk and to bring it inside she would need that great hulk So Pops would play chauffeur, cart pusher and bank and Momma would lead... Read more