How fond I am of farmers and farmland grand and tilled, With sprouting stalks of yellow corn and leaves sprouting with arms outstretched toward the sun. Brown earth and hay fanning gently in the wind of summer, Waiting for harvest and cool summer days, How long the rain will stay away is a farming mystery, [...]
Up on the hill she stands seeing from a muffled distance the world below her lazily unfold row upon row sit the weavings of humanity and the workings of God drawn together by singular divine hand swaying gently dizzily traipsing and dancing along smudging like watercolors the lines between the have’s and have not’s familiar [...]
They ask why I like the night? Why I shun the day and the light? And what can I really say in answer? Can I say that the world is a cancer? A growth so malignant that I abhor it. A sickness so horrible that when lit – By the daylight sun it looks foul. [...]
When I first came to the northern portion of New York, I was a newlywed of less than three years with one child and another on the way. Now, I was getting ready to walk away from a home and environment in which I had fallen deeply in love. It was a slow building, daily [...]
A letter to an English Gentleman of Republican conviction who opposes the Monarchy. Explanatory Note: The Republican Gentleman, a man I do not know, nor have I ever met, posted a comment on Facebook in the British Monarchy fan site that the ballot box is better than heredity in determining the ruler of a nation. I retorted with [...]
The devout know the terrible truth. Evil cannot be destroyed. The death of a city is a grim spectacle to behold. Terrible knowing all your efforts to save it were for naught. The thundering crash of masonry. The searing heat of ravaging fires hungrily consuming the city. The billowing smoke filled with terrible smells. But [...]
“Because you write, you show the rest of us that there is life after work – that you can retire and have a meaningful second career doing what you really want to do.” A reader said these words to me this week, and they gave me a boost beyond anything I would have expected. I [...]
This is a memoir story about an incident that took place on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Some folks search for love all their lives and never find it. Some run into it in their teens and others when they’re seventy. Some strike it rich with their first love and others on their second marriage expedition. For me, it was the third time around that was the lucky charm. The younger my [...]
Life
I couldn’t find the address for me to write to you neither did I know whom to write this letter to but between you life and death you shall know to whom this letter tolls. Some time ago I was dealt a heavy hand and would rest only when I have played all my hands and pen’s thoughts out. I only hope that you are going to get it and that it reaches you. I have had to write this letter because there is something that’s been a terrible torture on my heart and mind for years now. Its either I have to say it out or continue being weighed down by its corrosive hurts until God knows when?
