Read

The ills of the world

The ills of the world I want to cosset my babes; Veil their eyes from all the ills Of the world. Each morn We wake up to The news of doom; In lands...

DECEMBER

the ending of the novel the last page drawing near the cherry that's upon the top of each and every year . the winter's chill may threaten but our...
Cherry

Dreams of Children

Walking up the hill to the poetry class, talking to myself as if a mad man, of how tonight I will encourage the students to write vivid and...

Once When I Was

Once When I Was - By Paul McCann Once when I was lost , you found me . The good shepherd you are . Once when I was hurt, you healed me , with your...
Cherry

Fabulous Frogs

Fabulous frogs are the best; with the pomp of a swamp baritone they belch out their bubblegum chests from bodies like glistening stones. Their back...
1 likes
Gold cherry

Heartwood

Strip the bark. Peel thin slivers of gritted question and whittled skin. But leave the heartwood. Pluck the leaves. Leave bald bird stalks that...
1 likes
Cherry

Lessons for Mr Flopsie

Mr Flopsie is content with his lot. He lives a mostly comfortable and largely stress-free life in the bottom of The Grand Magifico’s top hat. Along...

Jesus ... I Am

Foreword : Jesus came to share His Essence. This story is revealing the thoughts which may have crossed His mind as He strode forth to complete His...

The fisherman and St Andrew

Long ago, in Scotland, when Christianity was a new religion in that country, there was a Christian fisherman named Fergus who, discovering that St...

Garganta del diablo Iguazu

On the wall billions of gallons of jagged water rush down the Devil's Throat, spume rising higher than the half moon falls Reminds me that adventure...

Going All The Way 3

Sister : New York, City of Gershwin. Jazz. Optimistic. Capitalistic. Brash and rude. New York. City of the Dutch. New Amsterdam. New York. city of...
Cherry

Sweet Rhythms of Winter.

Once proud Pine, King of the lounge, garden dumped, slumped, redundant Christmas tree, frozen arms, thumbs. Needled myrtle coat, thread-bared to...
1 likes
Cherry

The Speed Of The Seasons

White as the flash on window panes the world's painted with snow; bare trees are thunderbolts again but, fast as thunder, go. And then the Spring...
1 likes
Cherry

Useful Verses

we know how it is... but can we change it? Image author's own created from PD elements and Cooltext.com app. Verse is Malachi 1:8 King James Version
1 likes

Thanks For The Memoires

Thanks For The Memories, Bob. We were fortunate enough to watch a Bob Hope retrospective tonight, on the local PBS network. It was a nostalgic and...

Fare well and away fair lad.

Fare well and away, fair lad. We were sitting outside of The Panera Bread Company, at Coconut Point, in Estero, Fl. on a balmy, late-November,...
1 likes

ON POETRY

ON POETRY How many stanzas does a poem make? Unfathomable or dire! Repulsion to desire! Convulsion to chariot of fire! A dying art it may be Poetry...

September - How

September How I am grieving your goodbyes already. Suffused in the low lie of your sun as over high top mountains, that stretch to reach winter...

Being King

Remembering an event at a 1950 Kanasuta Lake Cub Camp in northern Quebec, my home province. A favourite game was King-of-the-Hill. Being King of the...
1 likes

Pages