Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Starting over



I ask myself
If  I could go back
would I give it all up
all the good
all the bad
for an unknown dream
an unknown future
a chance to start
all over again
would I do it
And, although
I don’t remember
I think
I already did

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Old Man Out Walking The Night

Stars keep on shining
they don't understand
old man out walking the night
Searching for footprints
in washed away sand
old man out walking the night


Friday, February 15, 2013

My Foe, the poet

That most despicable foe
who was a brigand
you know
IQ lower than mine
- of course -
both of us
on par
with our horse
But from
his wee aberrant brain
leaked (I suppose this proves it)
wisdom
- He said it, He did -
irrefutable... intelligent... thought
that in my
criticism
of him
lurked
envy


Saturday, January 19, 2013

The Mountain

A thousand years
and a whole lot more
cross wave tossed sea he rowed
his punishment
to move the mount
one grain of sand each load

For countless years
and countless trips
contrary winds he fought
but the seas grew calm
and the mountain flat
and his pardon he had bought

My job is done
across the sea
now stands
your mighty mount
the jailor smiled
one detail left
how many grains
did you count

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Dark Of The Night

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



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.

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