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10 Sunrise Awakening on a desert morning

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91 Spilt Milk Facing reality at eight years old

2:18

11 Charcoal A portrait of me my back deck and my grilling style

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Excuses Excuses Every Other Day

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90 Addicted to a Poetry Prompt Book

2:41

12 Fireworks A close call with the unauthorized expenditure of government property

2:38

92 Morning Run Racing my younger self

92 Morning Run
1
I was 55 years old
And I was running still,
You know, in age-group competitions,
As long as there weren’t too many hills.
2
I wasn’t real fast in high school,
Nor in college for that matter,
But maybe I’d outlast the guys who beat me then,
Leaving the record books in taters.
3
But it didn’t happen,
The same guys who beat me then,
If they were still kicking,
They all beat me once again.
4
But then I realized it didn’t matter,
Twelve of my class were already pushing daisies.
The fact that I was still running at all,
Proved I was alive and wasn’t lazy.
5
Then I reminisced about
Those old roads I once ran on,
Nine miles through the country side.
Three laps for a marathon.
6
The next time I visited Vevay,
With my plan firmly in place,
I’d run that high school course again.
And we would make it an official race.
7
So, in 2002 I toed the line
Against me and nobody else.
I guess I wasn’t as slow as I thought I was,
As I was beaten by my high school self.

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10 Sunrise Awakening on a desert morning

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10 Sunrise Awakening on a desert morning

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10 Sunrise There in a hushed first glow, Shadows fade; dreams take flight, In a whispered promise, Blessed by gentle defused light. But you can see it and feel it, So it can not be a dream, But you also know in that moment, It’s much more than a beam. But then a soaring variation, As the sky melts into day, Angular rushes give up the dark, Dawn is dancing in a shadow’s way. With fingers of pigm...

91 Spilt Milk Facing reality at eight years old

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91 Spilt Milk Facing reality at eight years old

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91 Spilt Milk 1 I wretched when I first tasted it. With white froth on my chin, Spilling onto the table, And the bowl my cereal was in. 2 I was eight years old, Visiting my grandparent’s farm. The milk for my cereal was from the cows They milked at their dairy barn. 3 But this wasn’t like the California milk Mom got at the store. You even had shake it up, Or it would separate as you poured. 4 N...

11 Charcoal A portrait of me my back deck and my grilling style

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11 Charcoal A portrait of me my back deck and my grilling style

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11 Charcoal If you’ve built a campfire, There is a thing or two to know, That you can bury it in dirt and mud, Extinguishing the glow. So now you have the fuel and heat, But no oxygen to spare, Triggering a chemistry, That works without the air. Then later when you dig it up, And roll the mud wall back, There’ll be a new thing buried there, A new thing, but glossy black. And so without knowing ...

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Excuses Excuses Every Other Day

zhlédnutí 14Před 16 hodinami

I'm having some trouble keeping pace with the daily uploads, so I'm switching to every other day. The snag is with the drawings, since I'm not a real artist, the drawings take way to long to complete. Which is fine with me, as I find it peaceful and relaxing slowly filling in the detail while I have my second cup of coffee. However, that solemnity makes keeping on a daily schedule too hard. Hop...

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90 Addicted to a Poetry Prompt Book

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90 Addicted 1 I came of age in the 1960’s, With Hippies, Beatles, and Wars. Even with all that going on, Lots of young folks wanted more. 2 They found it in marijuana, Pills and LSD. I somehow navigated this toxic maze, And it had little effect on me. 3 Including my two years in the Army, Where drug use was widespread. I had enough trouble with whiskey, I took that road instead. 4 Not looking f...

12 Fireworks A close call with the unauthorized expenditure of government property

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12 Fireworks A close call with the unauthorized expenditure of government property

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12 Fireworks Night watch in the Army, But I didn’t have a gun, It was New Years Eve in Augsburg, Nineteen Seventy one. In Europe they love fireworks, Exploding in the air, But I had duty at my unit, And I was the only person there. The explosions started early, An hour after dark, I could see the rockets rising up, Across the fence down by the park. It seemed to me they were showing off, Vaingl...

89 Spotting Clouds Colorado Weather Report

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89 Spotting Clouds Colorado Weather Report

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89 Cloud Spotting 1 Back in 1958 We had two channels on our set. One channel had bad reception, But we took what we could get. 2 Every night both at six and ten, The local news came on. Telecasting from Denver, It was a thing Dad relied upon. 3 Each night he watched the weather, An important topic in Colorado, With rain, wind, and snowstorms raging, Or even a tornado. 4 Back then the weather gu...

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13 Just for Today Queen for a Day

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13 Just for Today This is a heartwarming story, With a disturbing twist, And if you are not old enough, Then it is a story that you missed. In the early 1950’s, With TV a new art, And out in the world then, The Korean War had yet to even start. The TV folks had all filled up, The after dinner hours, But nothing for the daytime, To transmit from their towers. So it was kid shows in the morning, ...

88 Wind Whistling through the Trees an Ice Storm of Irony

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88 Wind Whistling through the Trees an Ice Storm of Irony

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88 Wind Whistling Through Trees 1 In the year of 1977 I was about 29 years old. We were hit by an ice storm Leaving us dark and cold. 2 Of course the lights went out, In the whole neighborhood, The well could not pump water; And the fireplace had no wood. 3 After the freezing rain had fallen, With the wind whistling through the trees, The temperature turned off very cold, And fetching water was...

14 Loch Ness Monster and Elvis is still Alive

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14 Loch Ness Monster and Elvis is still Alive

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14 Loch Ness Monster In high school my teacher pointed to, The number on the door, Then he said it’s not a number, Rather it’s a numeral, not the number four. Now I don’t run on high octane, And I’m not the clean up batter, But still I understood the concept, But didn’t know why it mattered. So if I write down Loch Ness Monster, In this class sometime today, That’s not the real Lock Ness Monste...

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87 The Voice in your Head

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87 The Voice in your Head 1 I’m a big believer When it comes to that voice in your head. And the voice becomes a little wiser As you get older it is said. 2 Now, I’m sure not an expert, But for me it is the truth, I don’t recall hearing the voice at all, In my early youth. 3 I’m not getting touchy feely, That would make me nervous, But where does that voice come from, And what is its real purpo...

15 Cigarette Packets My pack of Lucky Strikes

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15 Cigarette Packets My pack of Lucky Strikes

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15 Cigarette Packets I was in the Army, Signed up with Uncle Sam, I never was a hero, And I didn’t go to Vietnam, My first taste of Army life, On our twenty mile hike, The whole battalion saddled up, To march into the night. Then pitching tents in the rain, We got the news we feared, The Captain and First Sergeant, Would be inspecting all our gear. About fifteen guys failed the inspection, And ...

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86 Extrovert Do you know this guy

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86 Extrovert 1 Is anyone else annoyed by Folks that are completely over the top, With personalities magnified, And oozing charm that just won’t stop. 2 Folks who are artificially polite and attentive; That smile and joke and clown; Those back-slapping politicians, Or used car salesmen at the edge of town. 3 In the year of nineteen seventy-two I got into a nest of these guys. I hired on selling ...

16 Your Parents House Growing Grass in the desert

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16 Your Parents House Growing Grass in the desert

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16 Your Parent’s House On the corner lot on Nadine Street, Was the first house they would own, Dad worked at the Marine Air Station, And he qualified for a loan. And Mom, she took in ironing, At a dollar a dozen was the rule, Nineteen fifty-five in Mojave, California, And me, I was failing again in school. A brand new house, on a sandy lot, Where nothing green would grow, But with the mountains...