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Apr 2016 · 332
Imagination on high ...
I have yet to let loose of the youngster within , methodically drawing pictures into red clay ..
Breaking tiny twigs , sailing them in storm ditches after
thunderstorm rains ...
Climbing Live Oaks , high atop the " Crows Nest " on a Navy ship
in treacherous seas , writing poems in chalk on a lonely 'Summertime
street ..'
Copyright April 5 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
The young man killed because he had no other options
He killed out of no other recourse !
He will have to **** again if we refuse to understand-
his plight or cast quick racially motivated separation .. Render quick judgements devoid of his painful circumstances
It could happen at any time ..
How can you look into the madness-
of our cities and wonder why
Can the man justifiably **** the murderer ?
Copyright April 5 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

** I'm not proclaiming that we open the jails and release everyone .. I'm saying that we will never extinguish the fire with gasoline , no matter how hard government keeps trying .. Parenting ! Parenting ! Parenting !
Apr 2016 · 1.1k
Morning Metropolis
In- transit housekeeper with a-
beautiful name
Suspicious College Park subway-
people , waking replays
Telltale inhabitants , blustery November-
commuter stations , screaming trains
Lawyers carpool south , caretakers charge-
north in ***** rain
Kinetic Georgia peonage channeled-
through a "City too busy to Hate" ..
Copyright April 5 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 563
Monument ..
Unfeeling , beautiful things -
deserve our understanding
Paralyzed , disproportional-
traits of character beg basic courtesy
Satin gardenias bring peace followed-
by pain ..
Colors are bleeding through marble tablets-
of retrospection ..
Eroded hands engaged in the fall
Becoming resolute , deserving-
of my permanent agitation
Copyright April  5 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 570
Chattahoochee
Where the river was born and bred
'Neath the gird of Appalachia , nurtured from 'The Crag-
of Arariel' .. Freed , to explore the foothills of Mother Georgia -
through hardwood scape and granite juncture  
O'er Red clay valleys , shale to sandstone impediment-  
and piedmont cascade
Bitter travails seeking the 'discernment' of sea ..
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 313
Spring Fishing
A cane pole with half a loaf of sliced bread and
fishing with dough ***** beside a local creek will create scores of precious , long lasting memories ...
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
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There are two good memories about expensive boats ..The day you bought it and the day you sold it ..
Apr 2016 · 560
Fairburn evening ...
Traffic light refraction , glass store fronts pan
the main avenue
***** , bluesy , defeated people in line for liquor ,
beer , milk and lottery tickets
Navy skies grow red to the West , streetwise
pigeons work overfilled dumpsters and city cans
Bus stops return workers from Atlanta , the-
local grocery methodically stripped of its inventory ,
children playing games on side streets beneath working-
yellow lamplight ..
Fire trucks fly by , no one even bothers to look up or wonder why
Porch lights irradiate the Westside , amber hues build -
over the interstate , cars travel South , bottlenecked in the race for home ..
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 468
Oglesby Bridge ...
I yearn for latter-day retreat along the reverent hallways of the South River hollows
Along dewberry arbors , beside the Walnut Tree light encrypted fallows
To afternoon Black Angus calling the day to close  
For silhouetted properties atop lavender valleys , gravel driveways meandering back to home
The high Moons certain visage reflecting across the olive waters , country lanes splitting evergreen forest ..
Copyright April 4 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 362
Summer Splendor ..
My surrogate to awaiting spiritual harbor ..  To one day relinquish physicality's tarnished clasps for the tonic , jasper fields of Ola ..
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

Ola , Georgia in Henry County ..
Apr 2016 · 532
Cut Grass ...
Mowed grass wind songs enhanced by-
muted , diamond-like morning dews
Aromatic chanty bearing , offering hurrah for unemotional day's
Cheerful provider , highlighting the crisp color of Spring with fragrant marvel
Copyright April4 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 392
Silver Trooper ..
Good morning Mister Fireplug , hope you slept well ..
My loyal silver sentry , I pray we never seek your help !
Copyright April 4 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 661
Goodnight Folks ...
Midnight insomniac gibberish ..
House as quiet as a church mouse ..
Cheap Wal-mart clock ticking like -
'Big Ben in London town .'
Two refrigerators and a basement freezer-
making more noise than Piccadilly Circus
Old brick houses and Oak flooring make
one heck of a ruckus !
If I ever went to England I'll be ****** if I'd
ever put up with this much hocus- pocus* !
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 287
Full Disclosure ...
Beer will cause a fool to bray amongst his kin like a "Jack ***"..
Hard liquor will alert the entire town of his alter-ego !
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 931
Georgia Mountainside ..
Where the earth and sky become one  ..Along the banded fusion of physical constraint
Indigo blues transformed into burnt orange
The tail of the galaxy commands this mountain-
sky , celestial offerings fall over Alabama-
in the shaded oeuvre of "The Apportioner " on this night ..
Meandering streams etch Cherokee hillsides ,
early evening fires conceal the nearby forested seas
The Crescent Moons luminosity glistens her summits northbound , released-
into the frigid voids of angered scope
Mans vista looms cold , blind and silent , nocturnal fauna return
to their Appalachian precipice to guard these ancient
storytellers ..
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

The Apportioner or Great Spirit ( Unetlanvhi ) in Cherokee Mythology
Apr 2016 · 956
Empty Village ..
The barren sidewalks of Palmetto ,
yesterdays shoppes in boarded disarray ,
hushed avenues , empty Water Oak parks ..
Creosote treated railroad ties fill Spring air
currents , Friday afternoon capability shattered ..
Windblown , meager paper evidence collects at
curbside , this abandoned village , forever reduced to a four way stop on Sunday nights* ..
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

Palmetto , Georgia
Apr 2016 · 559
Busy Fellows indeed ....
I am certain that Hill Country Carpenter bees have brewed the antidote for this poets melancholy feelings
'My eyes will drink freely of this potion as needed',
whenever I suffer from a lack of piedmont scenery ..                    
Whirling acrobats , tedious gardeners from Dawn till the close
of day ..
Challenging surprise guest , staring straight into wondering eyes then
off into the aromatic wind , riding the suns ray's with a grin , happily bound for an afternoon of hard labor once again ..
Peeking into my window as if their calling on a friend .
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 534
Sunday on The Lake ..
Port Lake sunshine , a beam of pure serendipity
Ushering Noon hour topwater magic to all fortunate enough
to bear witness ...
River dancers swirl about felled timber , painted turtles
tred the surface endlessly , broom sage waves from
the curious creek fed beginning ...
Leaf boats ride the wind churned waters , a prisoner
to her casual whims ..Talking hardwoods , sash-shaying
hillside Pines , ferns and wild berry shrubs loom large
at the southern periphery , tall tree reflections soothe my weary
eyes , a daytime Moon rides the True blue impassioned sky ..
Copyright April 3 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 489
Vernal Fires ..
The midnight fires of early April
Fueled with Chinook winds , tended
on the hour ..
Oak smoke canopies obliterating
my vernal stars , choking visible breath ,
rushing into Camp creek lowlands ..
Shadow spirits growing taller with
each feeding , trudging lit furrows ..
" Heat your row , learn you garden ,
toil in Spring , reap at harvest .."
Copyright April 2 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

**Building bonfires on four corners of large vegetable garden tracts . Shoveling the coals along the rows at intervals to prevent damage from frost .. All night work ..
Apr 2016 · 323
Sage advice ...
When firing ones mouth be curious downrange ..
I'd advise a field wagon of caution coupled with good old fashioned
"Kentucky windage" to insure those 'steely *****' are addressing
the intended target ..
Copyright April 2 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 338
The Afternoon News ..
Grandmother's ringing the farm bell in the early afternoon ,
calling the family in to gather at the living room ..
It's premature tolling could only mean a birth or death , for Grandfather would never leave the fields for anything less ..
Copyright April 2, 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 257
The Real Me ...
At this stage in my life I'm about as complicated as a piece
of chalk , and looking forward to continued peace of mind ..
Copyright April2 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Resrved
Apr 2016 · 327
The Grays and I ...
Eastern grays and I are much alike .. We forever forage with a preference for the sunny side of the yard ..
Our world is in constant motion , forever planning for another place and time ..
Entertaining the green meadow by the forest edge , with one eye on the foreboding skyline ..
Tucked away quiet at Dusk and a wee bit leery about the coming Dawn ..
Copyright April 2 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

** Easter Gray Squirrels are magical creatures !!!
Apr 2016 · 653
Shake- a -Leg Saturday ..
The breath of the world invites the 'Dance of the Trees'
Magnolias do-si-do with Silver Maples , Red Woodpeckers-
sway as Mayflies and Field Crickets square dance 'neath the Elm's ..
Brown-eyed Susan's perform ballet in the fragrant Georgia breezes
Young Bunnies whirl away the hours , Big Bullfrogs cha-cha
croak and warble , Hummingbirds boogie among the midday flowers
Lady blue skies and vibrant greens , Crows dance 'The Charleston'
beneath the Pin Oak Trees ..
Copyright April2 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 1.2k
Locust Grove ...
As Farm tractors brush the hayfields of Summer
White Holland turkey's and dairy cattle share
enclosed greenery ..
Late morning vegetable harvest , the cackle of
laying hens and Chinese geese , our Postman smiles
and waves with his Noon delivery ...
Hereford cattle on the move , Fig trees feeding
songbirds , bumblebees and hummingbirds working
the afternoon flowers ..
Tubular bells in town , just over the horizon strike the one o'clock hour ...
Copyright March 2 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 437
Busy Young Family ..
White Pine boxes painted blue and red
A brand new home for a Carolina Wren
Lodging paid in song , harmony and
wonderful nestlings ..
Adorable , mirthful Wrens , make this
house your own forever ..
Copyright April 1 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 437
The Postcard Day
Throwing daisies into Crystal Lake
Feeding Pekin Ducks , smoking blueberry blaze
Relishing quiet time with my friends , the
water striders and Trumpeter Swans , elder
passersby waving from the roadway ....
Chewing tangy grass , collecting runaway
thoughts on a Renoir masterpiece kind of day...
Copyright April 1 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 596
River Dancer ..
Blackberry blossom and glorious Honeysuckle vine
Dark green Ferns and scented Loblolly Pines ...
Brush , briar thickets reducing visibility to arms reach
An Ole grey Opossum high atop a Cottonwood Tree ..
Thick floors of pine needles and knee high wild grasses
Yellow Locust , green grasshoppers flying in advance on stair -step hillsides leading into chilly Walnut Creek ...
Sandbars filled with quartz and mica , glistening between the 'Brick red clay cliffs' as far as you can see downstream ..
Painted turtles and Blue Herons , Cottonmouths and Black Racers ..
The music of life at every turn , every ripple of water , swaying River Birch ..
Copyright April 1, 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
White Sapphire waves ...
The Moons Opal servant roars
into eventide ..
Candlelight beacons service the unlocked waters ,
shadow figures disappear into night ...
April 1 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Tybee Island , Georgia
Apr 2016 · 407
South River at Highway 81
Snapping Shoals remind me of a long lost song returned to eager ear..Whirling eddies , cascading melodies , driftwood memories  ..A summertime carol on root-bound shores , Smallmouth Bass dancing the silver pools , caterwauling Jays and Ravens ..
Red-tailed Hawks skimming her surface , dragonflies of every color
sailing into forever .. Sack lunches .. Laughter and fellowship ..
Copyright April 1 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

*** Just  north of Jackson , Georgia
Apr 2016 · 1.4k
Night watch ..
True as the oceanside bonfires ..
Embers that parlay their very existence ,
at mercy of Poseidon's petulant expanse ..
Gale-borne , maritime id ...
Devout seafarers in perpetual , celestial
navigation ..
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 513
Seven a.m.
Playful Fawns in early Aprilis garb
Foraging the Sepia brown patchwork detritus ,
the clap of brookside along the foggy divide ..
Eastern hens answer the question of Chickadee
and Brown Thrasher ..
Bitter Blackbirds command the fire breaks ,
multitudes shifting from canopy to rain washed
visible pasture .. Move South , quietly disappear ..
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Apr 2016 · 856
Light the Night ...
Petrichor and wisteria interlace at the empyrean .. Electric blue spatiality , brushed in sable waves , protracted shadows connect days end ..
Concertos of twilight mourn her passing .. The insatiable Harvest Moon shimmers afresh ...
Copyright March 31, 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 737
Winged Performers
Luscious Spring is wonderful avian theater ... The cameo appearance of Bradford Pear ,  a fragrant , beneficial Chestnut Tree of April ..

Melodious springtime , 'Creations Opus stage ..'
Voluminous , arthropod soloist , capering
the riparian rivers , break the searing afternoons ,
sing to me , the cool blessing of night ...
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 617
Recipe for trouble ....
A generous amount of ferocious wind , a ladle of roaring thunder and a cup or two of 'nerve racking hail ..'
A handful of blue lightning with a pressure cooker full of rain ,
an armful of 'nasty charcoal nimbus' and 'puppy dog- puffy cumulus' stirred into a heaping bowl of 'humid Georgia sunshine ..'
Turn the Old rooster weathervane to the East , hurry up and gather the last pile of leaves ..
Get the turkey chicks in the barn , shut down the smokehouse ..
Tie the scarecrow off , call the family together and head for the storm cellar !
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 1.3k
Blueridge Home ..
Along the faithful stretch of tensile black ribbon
Homesteads garnished in sporadic , hospitable shade
Sunshine releasing every brilliant pigment ,
summit eloquence in festive motion ..
Botton land fathers toil a plethora of viable hillside earth ,
Afternoon chimney fires season the air with -
-Hickory and Oak kindling from creek-stone hearth
Silver Guineas patrol the forest edges , cordillera
Mountain Deer free themselves from the ******* of the midday struggle , recede into wooded escapes , immune from discovery ..
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 827
Cool Wet Morning ...
Metrical raindrops stream down my favorite
window ..
Cool , tidy , poetic gray cover shadowing the busy unkempt
world ...
Fussy Cardinals come clean in the channel
Pollen , pine needles and mans debris
collect on the washed avenues ..
Courthouse bells relay over the wet countryside ,
timid brooks become rivers for a day ..
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 366
Hidden Mystery ..
Discerning life within the trees
Images in pools of rainwater ,
streams of pertinent discourse
and fluid continuity ...
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Mar 2016 · 559
Passion ...
I am privy to sensuous flavor and textures
Layers of aromatic forbidden reserves
Allotted delicate free -will gratuities ,
unchartered lanes , open exploration  
I am breathless with quickened skin , longing ...
I love a good peanut butter and sorghum syrup sandwich !
Copyright March 31, 2016 by Randolph L Wilson *All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 356
Little biddy Bee ..
Little Sweat Bee , employ of Spring
Where lies your abode in the afterwork evening
A lair within the grass , a hole in a Oak tree
Little biddy Bee , will you come home with me  ?
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 412
The Voices of Spring ..
The melding , waxing Moon ...
Coyote's vociferate for her favor in April
Katydids bathe in nocturnal blessings
Tree frogs sing the same sad tunes ,
cry for the pleasing call of Cicadas in the month of June ..
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 1.8k
Harmony
Green giants swaying to a calypso melody
    Cuban guitars nuance the springtime scenery
    Beautiful Wisteria dancers and Dogwood musicians
              Latino songbirds delivering ambitious acapella dreamscapes  ..    Caribbean percussive timbre in pitch perfect three point harmony ..
Copyright March 31 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 522
The Struggle for Power
When you remove the lust for power , money becomes wallpaper ,  diamonds , gold and "precious stones" become creek rocks ,  oil becomes a mistake of the past .. True wealth appears ..
Copyright March 28 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 748
Todays Sunset ..
My bold peridot grassland jewel ...Wrapped in a golden band of Allegheny sunlight , covered in Montana blue dreams .....
I see her bold outlines , the face of Obsidian mingled within White Pine , suspended in lavender horizons , sailing eastward to sea ..
Copyright March 28, 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 477
The Rite of Spring ...
A punctilious artistic muse in the guise of a butterfly  
Mirth and mystery at every perch , charged by
the 'vernal electricity of this earth' .. Traversing magnetic byways , filling migratory skies , retracing long held accustomed paths , challenging the predatory countryside ..
Color the remaining fragments of Springtime  
Filling the panoramic view of forenoon with multitude and wonder
Busy Monarch , winged pilgrim of the afternoon , intent for the
Summer grassland , fly by day into night on your scheduled journey southward old friend ...
Copyright March 29 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 454
Traveller ....
A vagabond traveller , walking the rails of Columbus
on foot again through Manchester and points north
Cowered in the dark night , filled with an air of dignity ,    
determination and resolve in the broad daylight ..
Nobody wants to stop , not even a second glance ,
their just afraid of seeing themselves maybe , a paycheck
away from becoming indigent possibly ...
'Out of medicine , nourished by my own flesh ,
a once promised son turned wrinkled vagrant , a pilgrim escaping the Oligarchy America I once defended ..'
Copyright March , 29 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

** I recall seeing a man walking the side of State Route 85 just above Manchester , Georgia ..I was maybe six or seven years old , but it has always stuck with me for some reason .. I colored the story over the years in a an attempt to reveal the reason or why's ...
Mar 2016 · 383
Gettin' right quick ..
My grade school Principal would take a reconfigured boat paddle
and 'grill a young man's bacon' when needed ! I most assuredly earned
every lick I ever received ..
Copyright March 29 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Greenwood sacraments awash in mysterious but welcome subterfuge , fooling the melancholy morning , giving way to afternoon peace and euphoria by afternoon ...
Copyright March 28 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 499
Kinetic travels
Life is the motion of tide , blustery Fall nights
Seed called to the surface of light and falling rain ...
Gustnadoes on the open plains ..Swallows crossing a spirited
evening lake ... A cache of swirling memory in
urgent need of release ..Petty paper flying across
city streets ..Disgruntled figures pursuing their own feet ..
Copyright March 29 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 319
Awake by the window ...
Postcard countryside
sunlight crowning hedgerows
partly cloudy sky lighting-
poetic fervor , heating imaginations
Copyright April 1 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
Mar 2016 · 441
A Bad Feeling ...
Beware that thirsted kindling should spark in July
The unquenchable fire will roar , winds of change will feed
a great conflagration that is without end ..
The likes of which this nation has ne'er witnessed ...
Copyright March 30 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
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