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Indutiae Chapter 3

I don’t know how long I lay there. But eventually I knew I needed to get up and do something. Uncurling myself I stand up and cast one last...

Indutiae Chapter 2

Everything is black, black, black. I can’t see anything. With a wheezing cough I jolt back to life. Pain shoots through my body and I can’t sit up...

Indutiae Chapter 1

It is ungodly hot in my room. I awake with a cough and discover a thick layer of dark smoke coating my ceiling starting to reach down to wrap me up...

the “proper” age of suicide

seems to be a “proper” age for suicide--- for when people are young & they take their lives, regardless of what said life was like, they are...

Darkness

My eyes danced between my son and the doctor several times. They rested upon my son’s young, vigorous face, searching for a trace of hope, but my...

Adrift on Leaves

An autumn waterfall skips over rocks below action-oriented poplar leaves tinkling to create a softness within my heart --- teasing from lofty tree...
Cherry

Here on Earth

Here on earth are the real pearly gates Protecting those inside from everything they hate Like other human beings Who are not so keen on material...
Cherry

My Daughter Myself

Afraid of your own shadow... escalators, lifts...flying

The Wild, Windy Day

Oh what a wonderfully, wild, windy day; when the tall fir trees tremble; they bend and they sway; and the wind chimes all tinkle and the windmills...

Larry and Mick and the Punctuative Interlude

"Commas are the stuff of legend!" said Larry.

Man and Boy

They came from the eastern part of deep woods in the earliest of sunrise, eager for ruffed grouse. The man, with his three shot .410 and the boy, not...

Where were you?

Were you a rainstorm? Or perhaps a hurricane? Unleashing all the fury and sorrow you could never express Perhaps you were born again? Somewhere on a...
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

Was the Night Before Christmas, See?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX3m46PsRqU It was the night before Christmas, see? When all thru da flat Not a critter was fussin’ Not one smelly...
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Love Lullaby (80’s New Romantic style love song)

1. However restless I may be, you make me forget everything. Feel, in your arms, like a baby when, love’s sweet lullaby, you sing to my heart; all of...

An emptiness in my soul

I was never able to say I love you until you were on your deathbed. You were in so much pain, I hope you were able to understand those three words...

Clay, Mud and Sand Part 1.

I was born into clay and beat a hard path into this isle's mud before I reached it's highest peak, and took to the air, bound for distant shores,...
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IF I WERE A POLICEMAN

I'm not a policeman. I don't suppose I'll ever be one, either; but that doesn't stop me from sometimes imagining that I am.

The Girl and the Angel

Let me tell you a tale A tale of a young female. She dreamt of soaring high Oh, how she wanted to fly! She also dreamt of mystic beings Pure with...
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Sunshine (Chapter One, maybe)

The Journey Flying. Rational answers to irrational fears don’t work. What I need is a drink. ‘Mr Saunders?’ Perfect timing! ‘Yes?’ ‘Captain Hollis...

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