Extra. Read all about it
Corner paperstand
Purchased purchased.
Any scandal romance
Public figure dishonored
Married divorce.
We all gobble up
Such irrelevance.
In buckets.
And then gossip
All morning.
And then over soup.
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that Sabbath.
Last one inside the Kirk.
Preacher Peden shook hands
Smiling with that slight hint of courage…
Brethren, this is it.
Thanks for showing
In spite of drizzle.
So what is drizzle
In face of our trusty Covenant... – by dougb.72752 | 3 Views added 10 months ago
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Squeezed between two provinces.
NB and NS.
And pulsing with each tide.
When up the waves
When down the mud
Where shellfish
Came to hide.
A people plain
A people kind
Who’d give all that
They could.
The hinterland for... – by dougb.72752 | 0 Views added 10 months ago
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Early rising
Smell of melt in the dirt
Sheep bleating their
Approval in the side yard.
A walk in the field
To scuff and
Kick the earth
Tells him things
Are ready for disking.
Jean is in the kitchen
Boiling water for tea
And arranging... – by dougb.72752 | 2 Views added 10 months ago
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Link
https://sites.google.com/site/conversationabove/
How could I stop
Your worried day?
Filled with lists of
Doubt and dismay.
Pushing hard on
Energies
You Scarcely own?
It is featuring our King
And salvation He
Oft brings.
And the... – by dougb.72752 | 5 Views added 10 months ago
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She had everything buttoned down
Stay at home office work
Vegetarian
Manageable weight loss
Most weeks.
Springer spaniel
Named Benji.
Fresh air walks
Twice daily.
Reading Alice Munro fiction.
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Named Loisville
And in the family
Twenty two years.
Found behind kitchen door.
Developing wrists
Discouraging two
Wannabee burglars.
Pounding down tent pegs
For July 4th camping
In the backyard.
Dad and two kids
Telling ghost stories
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Wee Fiction
Steal the Show. Free to do so.
on April 30, 2024
Plane brought some jetlag
Flopped in hotel room.
Night 6 in a three week tour
Across the States and
Western Canada.
Missing family and
Chores needing doing.
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Dad had season’s tickets
At his sports store
To share with friends
And customers.
Good spot in the stands.
Familiar fans on either side. Their second home.
Beer and franks.
Scuse me, scuse me.
Pass over the cash.
Only... – by dougb.72752 | 3 Views added 10 months ago
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Visiting police detachments
To share data insight
Premonition cases
That chill the bone.
Photos at crime scenes
That raise the bile
Almost to overflow
And wretching.
Even cops sitting
Down in class
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Have you ever
Seen the sun
After weeks of overcast
When your mood near
Hit the bottom.
When you craved
It's warmth and blast.
Just remember he still
Shines like gold
Behind the curtain grim.
And the joy gets doubled.
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I cannot fix the time
When romance
Became the thing.
Was it Classics 301
Were the Greek tales
Fascinating.
When we shared a
Writing project.
Lots of evening
Coffee
And your room mates
Took the hint
We had spicier things
To do...me and... – by dougb.72752 | 3 Views added 10 months ago
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Up at our Friend's
Group of cottages
Lake Temagami.
Used to be a kid's camp
Turned into condos.
Americans loved the area
Bear Island Reserve
Not far.
Great for pickerel
Too late now for lake trout
They have gone deep
Into cold waters
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We have lost our way
Sad to say so
Belgian funded expedition
Struggling through dense
Congo jungle
With intent to reach the
Atlantic shores.
Large mammal presence
Is said to be thriving there
And content.
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So now kiddo
Where were we?
The princess keeps longing
From her high-up window.
Last attempt Sir Belliveau
Had bested four vicious
Swordsmen
And whistled and mounted
His trusty steed Champion
Draped in deep blue sheets.
Leaving the swarthy... – by dougb.72752 | 4 Views added 10 months ago
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shouldn’t need
To change you
To knock your castle down.
To force belief
Like my brand
And your own creed disown.
The means at my disposal
Not simply chapter, verse
But sarcasm and insult
That jumps from
Bad to worse.
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I am out on the porch
Fresh breezes for one
Convalescent.
Think it's a PD day.
No school bus
Neither giggling kids
With lunch packs.
Playing with my Concertina
Hohner brand
Recent musical challenge
Along with various harmonicas.
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Made it to the big firm
New lawyer
Hoping to save the world
Right all wrongs.
That’ll be the day
Chucky Boy.
Instead a pile of neglected files
On his desk.
Office nice enough
But soon to become
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Winter breaking up
Soon the dripping of branches
And the music snapping.
Large elk bunch
Totalling three harems.
A strategy in tough times
Swarming confuses pursuers.
Wolves growling out their
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He has come from the Glen
To a fearsome place
It is dry and raw
Giving ostrich space.
And he made his camp
With the family sweet.
Waiting patiently
For a tribe to meet.
They are warriors cruel
And they love to fight
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Out now 2 hours
Settled in course
Between coast and
Three islands
only marginal wind.
Sam rubs his eyes
From all the watching
For humpback.
Suddenly a grey hillock
Emerges from the brine.
One large eye checking
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Takes you to a mangrove swamp.
Gators, coons, egrets.
And popup catfish bubbles.
Motor launch wakes.
Smell of fish bream..
Fish bait shack of
Detective Dave Robichaud
Kicked out of New Orleans PD
For indiscretions together with
... – by dougb.72572 | 2 Views added 10 months ago
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Picking Up Pieces
Jonah story as told in a storm to settle the boys.
on April 27, 2024
I tell ye boys
Storm up dere is a howling.
Your next shift on deck
Forty five minutes.
Terrified huh?
Well listen will ye
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They were drenched
Man in his
Mechanized chair
One leg gone.
Doggy skipping alongside
On three.
Happy tongue lolling.
So proud of that
Plaid rainwear
From last Christmas
All was exceptional
Exercise plan.
Minding not downpour
Or grim... – by dougb.72572 | 4 Views added 10 months ago
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Picking Up Pieces
Naughty teacher. Creeps.
on April 27, 2024
Grade school
Teacher he was.
Mr. Brad.
Came from small-town midwest.
Fifth level
Handled most subjects
Xcepting intro physics
Civics, phys ed.
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Another shocker huh?
Right near dawning
The head does another number.
Shameful dream.
Embarrassing
Humiliating
Lost somewhere.
No cash or map.
Questions to strangers.
Every one disinterested
Or mocking.
Somewhere in... – by dougb.72572 | 7 Views added 10 months ago
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His Dad gave him
First rudimentary camera.
Took to the lush jungle
Of the sub-continent
Like a skipping roebuck.
Easily journied
As if it were
A harmless city sidewalk
Free of danger.
But danger.
Eyes alert always for
A shoot, a... – by dougb.72572 | 3 Views added 10 months ago
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Whatever you need you scrounge
No ready cash on this Alaskan island
Barter or snoop around.
Share and share
Trade and trade.
Discover old motors
Scrap metal
Jars of screws, nails
Eye bolts and chain.
Heavy rope.
Fire... – by dougb.72572 | 2 Views added 10 months ago
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Rienzi Crusz. An appreciation. Save Me...
- April 26, 2024
I would meet Rienzi at the mall or the grocery store or the neighborhood St. Agnes church with the lovely bells. He always had time. Blinked and smiled. Received some of my poems in... – by dougb.72572 | 11 Views added 10 months ago
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Creepy passageway.
Worst part of trip.
October sombre mood
Moon peeking from cloud.
Leaves rustle complaint.
Reminds me of Ichabod.
Schoolmaster on loan.
After jolly banqueting.
Sleepy Hollow.
Chased by maniacal
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