r - Hello Poetry

r Feb 2014

Another Staph Meeting day
Power Point bullets fly my way

r ~ 18Feb14

r Feb 2014

I squint just right
And capture a memory almost forgotten
Jars of fruit and honey fresh from hives
Filling shelves in old smokehouse
Home-made butter and molasses
In her kitchen
Waiting to smother
Biscuits warming
On black cast iron wood-stove
Boxes of buttons
An old cameo
Split wood in corner
Old sleepy dog on porch
The house on the hill
Where Mom's Granny rocked

r ~ 16Feb14

r Feb 2014

Gunny Got His Gun

So you lost your innocence
    in a darkened cemetery in Fallujah,
do you go looking for it
     on a grassy, sun-drenched hilltop in Arlington just because the
light is better?  No, not you.
     You return to that dark place and break every marker, leave no stone unturned, disinter all  ghosts tossing them to the wind and shout
     "Want more?".
Marching upright/quick-step/head high
     back home to Bethesda to find your peace.

r ~ 15Feb14

Semper Fi Gunny S., Co. B, 1st BTN, RCT 7, 8th Marines.

r Feb 2014

Gypsy Dream

Sometimes I tire
Of the gravity of life
And wish to ride with Gypsies
Dance with tambourine
And raven haired beauty
With sultry smile
And plunging neckline
A peasant dress
And raging fire...
One
can
dream.....

r ~ 12Feb14

r Feb 2014

Territorial Moments in Time

The hours before dawn
are as much a territory
as moments in time
Alone in a darkened world
listening to sounds the
morning shares with me
and I alone
A rustle of a small creature
settling more comfortably
in its bed beneath frozen branches
within a pine-straw burrow
The creak of ice-burdened limbs
high in the loblolly pines
The crack of ice breaking loose
to land on frozen deck
like an echo of a rifle shot
from many years ago
The pecking of small pellets of
sleet upon my glazed blue
tin roof with dragon's teeth
icicles hanging above my head
This is my territory
and my hours
before the
dawn

r ~ 12Feb14

During the passing of winter storm Pax/Feb 2014

r Feb 2014

Red-winged Blackbird

White frozen pine tree
framed bright red and yellow flash
of red-winged blackbird

r ~ 12Feb14