<a What a week! A yelling, cheering crowd lining the streets a man on a colt passing by Something went wrong or was it right? When crowds became vicious begging for cruelty evil pour out A mock trial a flogging another procession then the sky darkened the earth shook a heavy felt curtain suddenly ripped [...]
he Marine's have a slogan: "The Chosen, the Few" that works, I think for some men I know Strong are they, fitting a term 'man up' they face life's highway storms and all and keep going forward This being earth challenges come surely as sun rises, sun sets but, no matter, these guys go [...]
Taking two giant, sweeping steps back, to think about the tides and rivers of mankind and history, the currents across the face of earth it strikes me how good and evil rise and fall Some strains are so obvious with time, looking back Like evil doomed, but nevertheless, waiting with power, in the wings [...]
Frustration rules on both sides in the debate about the facts I got a lesson early in dealing with the public Numbers are cast in concrete two plus two equals four end of story but not for all! You see, the problem is we're humans and humans like to think often times in channels [...]
Peace reigned supreme in the Garden of Eden But turmoil rains and reigns writ large on the earth today Peace broken, for the man work, and labor For the woman labor of a different sort, but sure seizing and dominating completely Yet creation, the Creator, breaks through from her labor a baby is born [...]
The setting a terminal moraine south of Philo center of the universe for an interesting group of people A clearing in the woods just happened as trees have been planted over thirty years passing But a just right space on a just right summer's day as the setting for beauty unfolded A bride, a [...]
Just right tall lush and dark green a picture of health and productivity A child of success the corn plant stood food factory, par excellance From one tiny seed six hundred grew a hundred day miracle of science, environment, and work A symphony American genetics, engineering, machinery, ethics and government conducted by a people, [...]
A distant rumble Darkening sky The birds fluttering for a haven Big drops splash here and there Let the big show begin! Now thunder rolling Lightning cracking, sizzling The clouds unload, raindrops pounding Leaves doing a panic dance Puddles forming gutters gurgling A car splashes past Wipers pounding back and forth in vain The [...]
An evening on the prairie Sun sinking a way out west A cool gentle breeze swishing the corn leaves And a comfortable chair on the screened porch My shirt still wet from the evening's work Tiredness melting away with the breeze Reflect on life And blessings The rich black soil that gives and sustains [...]
Rain, rain and more rain soggy earth saturated the crops stand and take it Creation sent the glaciers: Nebraskan, Aftonian, Kansan, Yarmouth, Illinois and Sangamon, the pressed their weight on the face of the earth and ironed it flat through here So we're flat! So flat the water stands no direction bidding, calling We [...]