MEADOWS
Reblogged from Pete Armetta: Where I live there are meadows out my back door, just a short walk through the woods. They are on an eighty acre farm which has been sold twice in the two years that I’ve...
View ArticleWar: The Gray Effect
I wrote this piece a while ago, after a late night drive, listening to National Public Radio and a program about the effects of the Iraq War on returning soldiers. There were several interviews with...
View ArticleNow Get Your Mayonnaise Out: Part 2
Now put it back. Because mayonnaise doesn’t belong in soup. (But it belongs in this recipe, Now Get Your Mayonnaise Out: Part 1) There are two reasons to make soup: 1.) You make it in ONE pot. 2.)...
View ArticleThis is why I have a dog
Fish and frogs Like love… They die. Sooner or later. I’ve had many fish in my life. Two frogs and a plastic bagged goldfish I won on dime. They all died, Eventually. Fish need a decent sized tank. Some...
View ArticleDesperation
I just now applied for a flight attendant position *must be willing *to travel (duh) *to Los Angeles for an interview *at your own expense *must be willing *and available for *5-7 weeks of training...
View ArticleA Windless Race
Nor touch nor be You are there And I am But we can Or not become if so And not be I am amass with Doubts the mistress She speaks Soft bellows And a broken thread Forever touching the skin … Continue...
View ArticleLecture Notes: How to Reveal an Intersting Character (And other such nonsense)
original source And now we have a place To begin. How Do we reveal. Important information. Relationships to one another I am a fallow, swallow bird. Breathe and die My love wails. A ghost In the wind,...
View ArticleThe Politics of my Heart
original source There are one thousand memories that serve the course of a seashell. Over waterfalls and dragnets I watch in wonder As time erases lines of soft spoken secrets, Promises and lies. Liar...
View ArticleLeap
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) Girl on a Cliff original source If you stand on the precipice of something for too long eventually the edge is going to erode away. You will either slip off the edge or be...
View Articlea boy and his planet
NOTE: A few years ago I was working for a non-profit and had the opportunity to visit an organization that offered counseling and reintegration services for high-risk sexual offenders. My job was to...
View ArticleThe Slope of the Thing = Rise / And then Run
You think you are heading in the right direction, taking the appropriate steps to get to where ever it is you are trying to go, but then one day you realize that you have either missed a step, or the …...
View ArticleAn Apology to my Father
Dear Dad, I’m sorry for the countless soap-on-a-rope given for Father’s Day’s past. I am sorry for the various barbeque, fishing, and golf themed greeting cards, given in recognition of this fine day...
View ArticleDay 141: This Is What I Know
Reblogged from cherylhuffer: To every eighteen-year-old in the country who is graduating high school in the next week, I have some advice. Oh, you don’t want to listen because what do I know, I’m just...
View ArticleMOPWA: My Own Personal WordPress Award
Inside every oyster Is a pearl to find and hide Inside every blog Is an accomplishment, some pride More than a simple press These words we knit, we pearl But stats reveal the truth I’m the 27 views a...
View ArticleHolding Court: A Relationship in Too Many Parts
You ever think about it. Really think about it. I do. It’s what I do, I think about it. I wonder… It’s not something I do a lot, I think about it often, but not a lot. Well sometimes. It’s … Continue...
View ArticleBorn on the fourth...died on the fifth!
Reblogged from : Seeing since the majority of the readers I have are from a little place called America, I thought I would dedicate today’s post to them…them over there across the pond we call the...
View ArticleWell…you know. And then there’s that.
Streets I am me Roaming Escaping Amongst the mass My heart rests in oblivion Not knowing, the truth. Me. I sit. I rest I drink. I think. You are the beloved, not I. Say’s the blind man. I am forever …...
View ArticleDead End Dreams & Hush….
We walk along dirt paths Speaking dreams – and wants I desire, and you- say the truth. It’s yours and more this walk. Not mine. wallow, brush shuffle… hush. Another day – The chickadee flickers in The...
View ArticleOn Bended Pine
To want and then do is a whole different story We cling to subserviance, like a thistle to a sock I am the one who can, not you but I It is me. I am not but want- a broken … Continue reading →
View ArticleALL or Nothing
Clean laundry is no substitute for an absent lover I call this: matched pair of socks and an empty bed Filed under: Funny, love, Relationships, Women Tagged: blog, home, laundry, Poetry, relationships,...
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