Mankind has become a churning sea Pulling muck up from the bottom and bringing it to me They lay their anger at your door and expect you to open wide Well I’m not that stupid to open the door I know I need to hide What’s good has become bad and the bad is labeled…
Category: Rhythmic Stories
Spinning Dreams
The spinning wheel in the cornerThat spun dreams of multicolors spinning fibers into strings and adding a twistit caused many women to end up with sore wrist she turned the wheel back to unwind the spiral on the spindlethen clockwise again until the string had dwindled The great wheel Saxony was the most popular brandbeautiful…
I’ll Wait by the Garden Gate
On a lazy summer, breezy dayHis garden flowers would rock and sway A more beautiful scene could not equateAs the view, I had from his garden gate My Grandad loved talking to the millennial dawners, as they were called thenThey would talk for hours about flowers and Bible promises found within The beauty of light-absorbing…
Note to Self Pity
In your heart it’s unsettled Your emotions have gotten all nettled So many changes to your way of life Covid 19 has created so much strife You made it this far you can rise above You just need to somehow muster up love Many words about love have been spoken All to often those words…
Under the Walnut Tree
I sit in quiet solitudeReflecting on my present mood My thoughts are on my brothersMy sisters and my mother The times we played together under the big walnut treeCracking nuts for mama and we just didn’t see She had put us to work, but we didn’t realizeThat the chore we were doing would bring a…
The Rocking Chair
Little Boston, Mission style and pressed back Oak-Maple are pieces of furniture that at one time became every homes staple Platform Spring, Victorian, and don’t forget the Lincoln Had a turn at putting many a child to sleep, I’m sure you’ll readily agree on The Rockers, sometimes called rocker rails, are the curved parts along the bottom…
Please Sunshine
Sunsets
How many hours have been spent looking at a majestic sunset I doubt very seriously that’s been calculated yet there’s something all inspiring to the eye When the sun catches the particles in the sky the sunsets every evening each day Coloring the horizon a beautiful way yet God can hold it in his hand …
On a Kansas Prairie
Prairies are enormous stretches of flat grassland you can see moderate temperatures, moderate rainfall, and very few trees When people talk about the prairie, they are referring to the golden, wheat-covered land it’s one of the rarest and most endangered ecosystems in the world untouched by man An area still left unplowed is in the rocky and hilly region…
When the Time is Right
The hands-on the clock reach for every moment in front of it There’s no going back to try and catch lost hours and yet One day those hands will be no more Time will not matter, no more clock stores Time will last forever onward to the years When all death and sorrows yes, and…