I told the old man
I didn't understand
his porch light
being on all day
A little sixty watt light
isn't that bright
compared
to the light of the day
And at best
even at night
it has just enough light
to be seen a block away
So he turned out the light
and its dark out at night
since the old man
moved away
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Why The Cat
Sometimes I lose sight of why I started this Twitter journey and how
Olde Yeller Cat came to be. We're all here for our own reasons:
loneliness, broken relationships, escape from the boredom of being
alone, trying to promote our writing, searching for expression in
poetry, photography, art, or sharing our expertise in psychology, and
business, or simply as an easy way to let folks keep track of us.
My name is Henry. Olde Yeller was an alley cat I came to love; she isn't around anymore, or if she is she's looking down from her cat heaven. The following paragraph is from our first blog; it gives you a look at our beginning.
Just like the skinny olde alley cat that was trying to rub breakfast out of my kitchen door we often barge into each others lives uninvited; we don't mean to be intrusive, sometimes we're just hungry, or cold or just looking for someone with whom to share our lives, our misery, our good fortune, or a meal. Hungry, cold, critters, and folks for that matter, don't have any politics, or religion, or views on how to save the world, or how to cure its ills, that all comes later after our hunger, and needs are taken care of, until then we're all the same. Maybe that's what we're missing, all of us, for just a few moments, being like that skinny olde alley cat rubbing on a strage kitchen door asking to be part of a strangers world.
My name is Henry. Olde Yeller was an alley cat I came to love; she isn't around anymore, or if she is she's looking down from her cat heaven. The following paragraph is from our first blog; it gives you a look at our beginning.
Just like the skinny olde alley cat that was trying to rub breakfast out of my kitchen door we often barge into each others lives uninvited; we don't mean to be intrusive, sometimes we're just hungry, or cold or just looking for someone with whom to share our lives, our misery, our good fortune, or a meal. Hungry, cold, critters, and folks for that matter, don't have any politics, or religion, or views on how to save the world, or how to cure its ills, that all comes later after our hunger, and needs are taken care of, until then we're all the same. Maybe that's what we're missing, all of us, for just a few moments, being like that skinny olde alley cat rubbing on a strage kitchen door asking to be part of a strangers world.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Dragon Mother Long Version
She fllew against the spin
a fight against the wind
a night that had no end
She fllew against the spin
diner's mouth watered
a fight against the wind
wee dragon long quartered
a night that had no end
red eyes in the night
diner's mouth watered
She fllew against the spin
wee dragon long quartered
a fight against the wind
drippings flaring the fire
a night that had no end
diner's mouth watered
wee dragon long quartered
drippings flaring the fire
red eyes in the night
queen mother in flight
bearing flame for a pyre
a fight against the wind
a night that had no end
She fllew against the spin
diner's mouth watered
a fight against the wind
wee dragon long quartered
a night that had no end
red eyes in the night
diner's mouth watered
She fllew against the spin
wee dragon long quartered
a fight against the wind
drippings flaring the fire
a night that had no end
diner's mouth watered
wee dragon long quartered
drippings flaring the fire
red eyes in the night
queen mother in flight
bearing flame for a pyre
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Getting Ready For Easter
Did you remember the ore, son
Did you remember the ore
I remembered
Did you remember the charcoal, son
Did you remember the charcoal
I remembered
Did you remember the fire, son
Did you remember the fire
I remembered
Did you remember the smith, son
Did you remember the smith
I remembered
I taught the smith to use a fire
how to turn black charcoal
into a glowing furnace
to melt dark gray ore
how to turn ore into iron
how to beat iron into shape
how to make three eight inch nails
that a Roman soon will take
and nail me to a cross
I remembered, Dad
I remembered
Copyright 2012 by Norris Trimm
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