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Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Lost Words

this week i lost my words
they just slipped away
when I wasn't watching
i only noticed when they
didn't come out to play

this week i lost my words
are they hiding away
from the end of summer
or are they afraid
to speak and feel betrayed

this week i lost my words

Poets United:  Midweek Motif


Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Hell On The Border

Judge Isaac C. Parker was the famous hanging judge of Arkansas from 1875 to 1896.  Of the 160 (156 men and four women) he sentenced to death by hanging, seventy-six were actually hanged during his time on the bench. These are the gallows and how they look today.
The Hanging Judge

The gallows called to outlaws
as they walked before the judge
He took no quarter
did what he did and judged.
With quicksilver
judgement
 his wooden gavel banged
It was quite irregular
to not be hanged.
If you didn't meet the gallows
to wear the hanged man's tie
You might become invisible
If you really tried.
Not bad for twenty-seven years
Three hundred forty-four capitol cases
Only seventy-six were hanged
creeping tears weren't uncommon 
on the bad guys' faces

For Delores's Wednesday's Words

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Words and a Picture

HOPE

Beneath the ever-present dust and cardboard
Lay the stones
Semi-ruined humans
With a collection of doubt
Share a different roof than BEFORE

The crestfallen
Thought there was only
A dismal chance
For
A new beginning

Hours contained within hours
Give birth 
To future possibilities
This collection of humanity
Shared doubt and ideas

Although dreaming was illegal
Hope was not
One by one
Humans with old stones and fresh hope
Began to build 

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Lisa Graham's Art With Words


 Creative challenge by Grace from Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
Art by Lisa Graham

Give me not the cities
With buildings in the air
Some have scary faces
More people than I can bare

Send me to the country
Where only trees grow tall
To sweet air and cool water
And sounds...I love them all.

I love the painting Lisa.  Thanks for the challenge, Grace.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

For Poetry Jam...

I know forms of poetry
And care not to look today
What comes out
And lays on this page
Is just
Words
Not poetry
So there are no rules
Like paint only becomes art
After enough people say it is
These words can disappear
Be used in different order
But
They
Are
Just
Words
Owned by none, used by many

For Poetry Jam

Saturday, September 8, 2012

SC 123...Words

Jenny Matlock  presents a wonderful challenge weekly.  Regular rules today not to exceed 109.  Since I am an old person, the famous songs "Words" came into my head by the Bee Gees.  I am presenting their words instead of mine...I can't get the song out of my head!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JECTUQVrvzE&feature=em-share_video_user
Amazing by removing one repeat course, the words are an exact count.  Why should I even try when the Bee Gees said it so well?

WORDS

Smile an everlasting smile
A smile could bring you near to me
Don't ever let me find you gone
'Cause that would bring a tear to me
This world has lost it's glory
Let's start a brand new story
Now my love right now there'll be
No other time and I can show you
How my love
Talk in everlasting words
And dedicate them all to me
And I will give you all my life
I'm here if you should call to me
You think that I don't even mean
A single word I say
It's only words, and words are all
I have to take your heart away

May you enjoy some "Oldies but Goodies" today.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

You Were Right...

I have downloaded so many pictures with my over eight hundred posts, I have no room. I would not have known to look without your help. Thank you.

I have purchased room for another gazillion photos so watch out! Farm world overload.

I thought about deleting some older posts. I read some and could not for the life of me delete even one. It is a story of my life, my attitude, my accomplishments and my failures. I can go back and read and feel the same way again. Nope, deleting was not an option.

So, for tonight only, maybe, you are stuck again with my words.

Today was a busy day but I think I want to tell you about one of my customers.

I shall talk in his voice and let him tell his story. He is not much older than me but a little differently put together as you will see from his stories.

I am expecting some money and when I get it, I will buy you a car. I am sueing the county(unnamed) because they tased me and set my jacket on fire and burnt it up for no reason. They beat the s--- outta me too. I am leaving town because they are trying to kill me but I will be back for court and then I get my money. I am singing and at five dollars a head I make good money so I am going to hit the road. I can pay the box rent then.

I am going to run for sheriff because I know everyone, spend alot of time down there and I have to be a better one than the one they got.

I haven't got my check. I was supposed to get seven hundred back from the government two weeks ago. Now why does it take the government six weeks to get me a check when I have to send them one right away. They told me it was in the mail, like I haven't heard that before. I am calling Obama and see if he will straighten it out.

I lost my box key, someone stole my truck and I know who it was and they totaled it, pushed the engine right through the radiator, costs me twenty-five dollars to tow it to someone's yard. That engine was good, it only had 130,000 miles on it and I'm putting it in another truck and it might take me awhile. So I need a new box key cause the sob who wrecked my truck stole my keys too. I know where he lives so I may go get my keys, it was two men and a girl that tricked me.

Gail: Are you following this? This is after he crawled under a fence by the po and stayed on the ground long enough that I checked on him. He staggered into the lobby and thank goodness, someone offered to drive him home so he could take his medicine.

Working for the public is a pleasure, very entertaining and I love it...some days.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Fiddler On The Roof Friday

"Sunrise
Sunset
Sunrise
 
Sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears."

Fiddler On The Roof
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