We’re kayaking up a thin snake of a stream, past cottages, silos, and swaths of golf greens. Carp splash and thrash and some ram our small boat, while we laugh and struggle to keep’er afloat. Then, we’re out in the boonies where few people tread and, like explorers, feel excitement and dread. But, what we […]
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a kayaking peom
When I get stressed… just need a break I pick a pond… a stream… small lake off-load my kayak, drop it in and push off with a paddle fin then, its breathe-paddle-pause… and row again mindless movement works its ‘zen’ while Nature paints such wondrous scenes living art in blues and greens that, spellbound, I […]
Read the rest of this entry »a Harley riding poem
we were touring – engine roaring – through the mountains, got too high ‘fore he leaned low, cranked the throttle, tapped through gears, and let’er fly caught off ballance, tried to warn him, couldn’t hear me if he tried he’d made his choice (thoughtless… easy…) and, despite me, he’d made mine I struggled… hated… panicked…! […]
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‘forever’s really very short no matter what the fools report ‘today’ is all we ever truly have that promises are just sweet words delicate as fragile birds oft’ blown off course, or crushed by fickle winds and love is just a fantasy a false hope from our infancy for rescue from our innate loneliness […]
Read the rest of this entry »you and I
You are my drug The sight of you excites me – longing and dread You’re in my flesh, the memory of your touch In my heart, the love and hate of you You’re in my head You alter my reality Make nothing into something You reject me, neglect me Call it love And make […]
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A piece’o’poem I started for my dear friend ‘Witchy’ who sometimes disappears into nevermore ; ) I didn’t know what I was in for when I walked out on the shore and herd the voice say ‘nevermore’ whispered waves of nevermore… Blast this lake and it’s environs calling out like wicked sirens calling me […]
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall Why do I have to hear them all The judgements… words that, once they’re said Will always echo in my head Too fat, too thin, at different times Too weak, too strong, in other’s minds Too short, too tall, unfeminine Too scarred, my life writ’ on my skin If […]
Read the rest of this entry »in a church
Greenman, why do you grin so? Is there something I should know? Carved into this wooden pew, I think it’s I – should laugh at you! Since you are trapped inside this place While I can leave, by God’s good Grace. Little man, the day will dawn When you and your new god are […]
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I walk alone along the strand sinking into sugared sand drawn ever onward to the shore mirror still, the surface lays moonlight streams across the bay an alabaster bridge to ‘Nevermore’ wading out beyond the beach I see a face and hands that reach my lover come to tease me, I am sure beckoning, she […]
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This is one that gave me trouble. I felt that it had more to it, but just couldn’t decide – or finish it… in my essence I am simple just a copacetic ripple in the great expanse of cosmic energy but in this state there is no learning so I sometimes get the yearning […]
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