Jan 17
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MAGPIES IN PICARDY by T.P.Cameron Wilson The magpies in Picardy Are more than I can tell. They flicker down the dusty roads And cast a magic spell On the men who march through Picardy, Through Picardy to hell. (The blackbird flies with panic, The […]
Jan 9
After the burial-parties leave
And the baffled kites have fled;
The wise hyaenas come out at eve
To take account of our dead
Jan 8
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At the Avenue of the Americas, in Manhattan, New York City, there is a billboard sized electronic display called-The National Debt Clock. It shows a running total of the national debt of the United States and each citizens share of that debt. It currently stands at around 14 trillion dollars and counting. That is a […]
Jan 8
My mother is the oldest of ten kids born to a sharecropper and his wife. She has a rich store of memories and stories of growing up in the fields of east Texas during the Great Depression. She tells of moving from Oklahoma in a covered farm wagon, because they could not afford a car;hoeing corn, chopping cotton, […]
Jan 7
The Sack of the Gods by Rudyard Kipling STRANGERS drawn from the ends of the earth, jewelled and plumed were we; I was Lord of the Inca race, and she was Queen of the Sea. Under the stars beyond our stars where the new-forged meteors glow, Hotly we stormed Valhalla, a million years ago! Ever […]
Jan 7
Around the Corner by Charles Hanson Towne Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end, Yet the days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year is gone. And I never see my old friends face, For life is a swift and terrible race, […]
Jan 7
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Death is a Door by Nancy Byrd Turner Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall On gentle hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call Along the lintel are green leaves Beyond the light lies still; Very willing and weary feet Go over that sill There is nothing to trouble […]
Jan 5
I come from Castlepatrick, and me heart is on me sleeve,
And any sword or pistol boy can hit it with me leave,
Jan 5
The Question by Rudyard Kipling Brethren, how shall it fare with me When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am he For whom a world has died? If it be proven that all my good, And the greater good I will make, Were purchased me by a multitude Who suffered […]
Jan 5
And by what witchery in the western hills
A throne stands empty for a thousand years.
Jan 4
The House with Nobody In It by Joyce Kilmer Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black. I suppose I’ve passed it a hundred times, but I always stop for a minute And look at the house, the tragic house, the […]
Jan 4
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose
From his first love, no matter who she be.
Jan 4
Rudyard Kipling It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say: — “We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away.” And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain […]
Dec 29
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On the wall above my desk hangs a photograph. A picture of a woman I have never met, and probably never will. After many attempts, over several years, I’ve been unable to gain any more information about her, or the circumstances of the photo, than is given in the caption of the picture. So, I deduce what I can […]
Dec 28
About seven or eight miles from my home in Texas, is Interstate 45. It’s unique among the nations interstates in that it is the only highway, with the designation of a Federal Highway System Interstate. that is completely contained within one state. To the north of Dallas I-45 merges into I-75 . Traveling south from Dallas […]
Dec 25
In the twenty some odd years of working in construction, with and for my father, I heard him asked by at least two dozen different customers ” How do you fix a bad foundation?” They usually would enumerate the various methods ” foundation repair ” companies advertised; mud jacking, I-beams driven down to bedrock, wrapping tension […]
Dec 20
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No one knows what angels look like. There are a wealth of popular images, in movies ,books, and on television. There are songs, plays and paintings, but no one really knows. Why? Because angels usually come in the dark. Why? Because that’s where the people who need them the most usually are. In the dark. In December […]
Dec 18
It seems that the young people in our world have lost the wisdom , or never acquired it , that their mothers and fathers were blessed to have received from their elders , or by bouncing their face off of a brick wall untill the light turned on. I’m thinking in particular of the complex and perilous task of communicating […]
Dec 10
Democrats believe that you should give a man a fish and thereby feed him for a day. This is an all together good and virtuous thing to do. Republicans believe that if you teach a man to fish, it won’t be long before he needs a Bass Boat and motor, and a trailer […]
Dec 9
The most jarring, visceral, scene in a movie I have ever seen, is the first fifteen minutes of the film “Vertical Limit”. A father, son, and daughter are climbing guides leading two customers up one of the tall spires in Monument Valley. The clients are in front, the father next followed by the son then the […]
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