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by Kenneth2816
06 Jun 2022, 10:07
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Kate, Visiting a Friend During Mating Season on her Ostrich Ranch
Replies: 7
Views: 5265

Re: Kate, Visiting a Friend During Mating Season on her Ostrich Ranch

I admire quirky and this has tons of it as it well as great imagination. However, the premise does not corelate to any experience I've had or even heard of. I just cannot wrap my head around an ostrich in heat pursuing a human to mate with. You're a bird guy and maybe you know something of the matin...
by Kenneth2816
05 Jun 2022, 18:34
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Secret Life Of Trees
Replies: 6
Views: 4897

Re: Secret Life Of Trees

Thanks Michael
by Kenneth2816
03 Jun 2022, 21:41
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Red Garden
Replies: 7
Views: 5298

Re: The Red Garden

Thank you
by Kenneth2816
03 Jun 2022, 12:16
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Red Garden
Replies: 7
Views: 5298

The Red Garden

It has always been that the earth is broken, scarified and tilled. Each sowing done by humble hand with hopes of a bounty to fill near- empty bins of grain, each seed producing after its own kind. Nothing is more proletarian than the Russet whose eyes remain dark with remembrance of the struggle tha...
by Kenneth2816
29 May 2022, 07:32
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: What The Gardener Heard
Replies: 3
Views: 3386

What The Gardener Heard

The Nation magazine article says that urine makes good fertilizer. So I bought a six pack of Fat Tire hacked away at it all day until dark so the neighbors wouldn't see and gave the bed a good wetting. In about an hour, the Clematis was extolling me on Socialism, agrarian reform and collective farmi...
by Kenneth2816
27 May 2022, 07:01
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Lone Star
Replies: 3
Views: 3437

Lone Star

Texas is the North Korea of the US,
where the Handmaid's Tale meets the Taliban.

We should sell it back to Mexico
for a fifth of Tequila and two straws.
by Kenneth2816
16 May 2022, 05:00
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Secret Life Of Trees
Replies: 6
Views: 4897

Re: Secret Life Of Trees

Thanks Bob
by Kenneth2816
15 May 2022, 19:19
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Secret Life Of Trees
Replies: 6
Views: 4897

Secret Life Of Trees

As kids, I scratched your name in the skin of a Beech tree. It was all I knew of love. Beneath the ground they say trees can communicate. Great tap roots find each other, exchange information like the gossip of a mongering fishwife. and chat like lovers over tea When I die and they dress my body, te...
by Kenneth2816
06 May 2022, 20:25
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Elvis Sightings
Replies: 4
Views: 4107

Re: Elvis Sightings

Whimsical. He sure was a whack job.
by Kenneth2816
06 May 2022, 19:51
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Z
Replies: 6
Views: 5189

Re: Z

Thanks John. Good to see you here.
by Kenneth2816
05 May 2022, 20:38
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Hi Dad (revision 3)
Replies: 7
Views: 5706

Re: Hi Dad

Sweet poem. Never seen a letter poem, but I like ot
by Kenneth2816
03 May 2022, 06:35
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Z
Replies: 6
Views: 5189

Re: Z

Thanks Michael
by Kenneth2816
02 May 2022, 03:07
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
Replies: 15
Views: 10527

Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:

I second TGIGF.
by Kenneth2816
01 May 2022, 21:27
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
Replies: 15
Views: 10527

Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:

The Cannoneer At the American Legion there's a WWII field artillery piece, its tripod sprawled on white gravel like a Grandaddy Long Legs. When I was a kid, we held dances there and I was in love with Mary Alice Paxton, but when I asked her to dance, she smiled and walked off. They keep it greased a...
by Kenneth2816
01 May 2022, 12:54
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:
Replies: 15
Views: 10527

Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2022:

I accept for Cannoneer ( thanks Billy). I second Phone of the Wind.

Thinking on 2 more
by Kenneth2816
30 Apr 2022, 15:11
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Making It To Heaven
Replies: 2
Views: 2944

Re: Making It To Heaven

Thanks Bob
by Kenneth2816
30 Apr 2022, 04:14
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Making It To Heaven
Replies: 2
Views: 2944

Making It To Heaven

Like a groupie stalking the back door of a concert stage hoping to catch a glimpse or nod from his idol, I will take up a post at the Pearly Gates right around quitting time, with a lawn chair, Thermos of coffee and left over meatball sandwich for as many times as it takes for St Peter to take notic...
by Kenneth2816
30 Apr 2022, 04:12
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Z
Replies: 6
Views: 5189

Re: Z

Thanks for a careful read and thoughtful comment.
There have been a million poems about Ukraine.
I enjoyed writing it.
by Kenneth2816
29 Apr 2022, 01:42
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Disappearing
Replies: 8
Views: 6510

Re: Disappearing

Reads much better
by Kenneth2816
28 Apr 2022, 15:23
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: A TGIGF reflection
Replies: 4
Views: 4097

Re: A TGIGF reflection

Some really great turns of phrase.
by Kenneth2816
28 Apr 2022, 15:21
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Disappearing
Replies: 8
Views: 6510

Re: Disappearing

Bob, I've written this poem. To me it meanders a bit and the reference to letting a bird go is too stale in comparison to the balance of the poem.

Let it marinate. It seems one long in the making.
by Kenneth2816
28 Apr 2022, 15:06
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Sometimes There’s Nothing Else To Do
Replies: 6
Views: 6133

Re: Sometimes There’s Nothing Else To Do

Yes. We who write are obliged to chronicle.
I like the overall feel; the security of N home vs the atrocities in the news..
by Kenneth2816
28 Apr 2022, 15:03
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Z
Replies: 6
Views: 5189

Z

You can tell it's Spring by the few green hairs that stubble a crotch between asphalt and sidewalk, subsisting on the meager dust packed in over the years.I raise a glass to their tenacity, want to erect a steel cage for protection from careless feet, cigarette butts. In Ukraine it's raining missles...