36 CORN ROAD (PART 4) THE REUNION

36 CORN ROAD  (PART 4)  THE REUNION   It was the best time I can remember Family gathered in one place Nothing fancy or pretentious Just a field, the sun and love all around us.   The hay wagon was full from edge to edge…

Waiting on the Tide

It’s the second day of summer and it’s bringing everything great Cold beer and barbecues and baseball players sliding across home plate But while folks are at the lake on their boats and water skis At the beach soaking up the sun and enjoying the…

No turning back

how do you go back to the old thread of life …when there is nothing to go back to …when everything has moved forward and left you

What is it All For

What is it all for,  what is all this really for? For things I’m told,  though the world provides for us in a mysterious way. Reach out your hands. We have to make money so we can eat,  that is true. Plant a garden and…

Declaration of Independence Erased

Poem Twelve Declaration of Independence erased   Self-evident men create their Creator and Happiness.   Men come destructive.   Government should be changed for light and transient causes.   Mankind’s evils are sufferable. Train abuses in a design to reduce right.   Throw future security…

“The Voyage Out”

The sun going down. Dusk saluted. As usual, by instantaneous sparkle of light.The hours between, were always difficult to kill. Night.   The dance further tarnished by the dissipation. Certainly in the opinion of those who lay, in the middle.  With coffee beside them, and…