Rosebud (+4)

Bravery and recklessness

 riding together

Death as the arbiter

—glory abused

(Crow Agency Montana: July, 2009)

Something For Emily

To never make a lot of friends,

 though enemies were scarce

And keeping both arm’s length away,

my words alone repaired

Splitting the difference tween comrade and foe,

the measurement obscured

One to the other, together as one

—my loneliness endured

(Berkshires: January, 2015)

Milkwood Burns

The story of a Poet,

more tragic than his words

What then in fact his deeds conscript

—his writing leaves infirm  

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

Futurity

From here to eternity,

breakfast to lunch

The distance bespoke,

new hole card to punch

As yards change to meters,

fruition in sight

All travel inherent

—day changing to night

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

The Curtain Falls

The tyranny of the majority,

democracy oversold

The power of the people to cut and paste,

 fat cats in control

‘Oh Ye Of Little Faith’ we are,

like rats inside a maze

Our government serving to best itself,

entitlement ablaze

The curtain rises for one last act,

this play now eons old

As despots steal the final scene

—where freedom’s bought and sold

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)