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)