Tag: Poetry
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Archery
Back in late 1969 through 1971, I played with archery for a while at LCCC, the jr college I was attending. Hadn’t thought about it until recently, when my partner’s son, who lives next door to us, constructed an archery range in our mutual backyard. So, I purchased a 40lb, recurve bow, 12 arrows, armguard,…
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Nathan La Franeer by Joni Mitchell
Nathan La Franeer by Joni Mitchell I hired a coach to take mefrom confusion to the planeAnd though we shared a common spaceI know I’ll never meet againThe driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirrorI read his name and it was plainly written Nathan La FraneerI asked him would he hurryBut we crawled…
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Happy Independence Day
Things to think about on this ‘Independence’ day: Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park DAPL Dakoda Access Pipe Line Protests: BLM, starting with the George Floyd arrest (murder): And there have been many more going back to the founding of the country and before. Time to think about our true history and forgo the propaganda… Some…
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Tangled up in Blue
Tangled up in Blue by Bob Dylan Early one morning, the sun was shiningI was laying in bedWondering if she’d changed it allIf her hair was still red Her folks, they said, our lives togetherSure was gonna be roughThey never did like mama’s homemade dressPapa’s bankbook wasn’t big enough And I was standing on the…
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Breakfast at the Birdfeeder Diner
Breakfast at the Birdfeeder Diner Wrens and sparrows arrive first5:30 am sunrise long shadowsbarcode the entryway A flock of morning doves landsurvey the ground, then hop upon the birdseed buffet pecking away nudging earlyrisers out of the way, need seventimes their weight for the day the big boys twice the size arrivetwo-tone gray and translucent…
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Common Sense
What is ‘common sense’ but what benefits the majority, the planet, and all its inhabitabts. Common Sense We’re always advised to use itbut not to abuse itwhat’s ‘common’ for one of usnot necessarily so for the rest like everything else in existencecommon sense evolves, changes from one generation to the next, often unrecognizable decades hence but for…
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The Circle Game
The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell Yesterday a child came out to wonderCaught a dragonfly inside a jarFearful when the sky was full of thunderAnd tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasonsSkated over ten clear frozen streamsWords like when you’re older must appease himAnd promises of…
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Father’s Day
I had a visit with my Dad on Father’s Day a few years before his death. This poem is the result of that visit. I wrote it that night when I got back home. So, it’s about 20 years old now. Father’s Day Sitting at the kitchen table (Dad’s desk), I flick the lighter and…
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Lady in Black by Uriah Heep
Lady in Black by Uriah Heep She came to me one morningOne lonely Sunday morningHer long hair flowingIn the midwinter wind. I know not how she found meFor in darkness I was walkingAnd destruction lay around meFrom a fight I could not win Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ahAh, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah She asked me name my foe…
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Depression
Depression seems to be a major topic on several of the blogs I’ve been reading recently. I’ve struggled with it several times over my long life. I believe that it is a normal part of human existence, and the following is my current perspective on the condition, based on my personal experience with it. Depression…
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