In 1400 & 92 Columbus sailed the ocean blue!
From centuries to counting days... cruel empires fail to mend their ways...
Day 1400 & 93: Ukraine was on a winning spree.
Day 1400 & 94? Iran's still winning Taco's War.
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sunrise loves the plainest things clouds leap earthbound puddle cusps feathered souls alight with joy drinking cloud-filled mirrors up mankind's fall too often stirs curs-ed mornings come too soon fog of breakfast's bagels burnt tempests raged 'gainst idle spoons thunder shakes our mirrored views forbearance bids the ripples stop sunlit feathered souls alight drinking cloud-filled mirrors up © dbstewart The background is a monochrome photograph of treetops and clouds reflected in rainwater puddled in the sags of deck boards. ###
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The Christmas Carol © 2007, 2025 David B. Stewart A carol softly touched my ear… It whispered: "Christmastime is near." Slow to move from off my chair, I ran stiff fingers through my hair And wondered: "Why did I not see this season sneaking up on me?" It snuck with nothing new I fear. It comes at this time every year. Saw Halloween. Heard turkey’s call. No, nothing new this year at all. I sat in sounds of nothing said still plowing fingers 'cross my head And really didn’t have a clue. I nearly missed it. Yes, it’s true! The neighbor’s trim was lighting up. I grasped my empty coffee cup And took a sip of nothing there. “That’s it!” I said and left my chair. I’d filled my empty insides up with nothing but a coffee cup! No spirit of the season here. No love for life or Christmas cheer. Still... songs of Christmas long ago Spark within some hearts... a glow. It wakes and warms the chilly soul That settles in as we grow old. Songs of old that make hearts young And roll so sweetly off the tongues Of angels (who don’t know they are) Yet whisper joys both near and far… I’d nearly missed it all, you see? That carol had been sung for me! Remember if your season slips: May Christmas joys be on your lips And bring you back to proper cheer To have a wonder-filled new year! # # #
I find myself too angry to write what's brewing. So, its back to the well of the past. This revised verse from 2007 seems to address some of the reality that has unwillingly become 2025, but far more gently.
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groping toes awaken damp doormats as ghosts of seasons past rise up these quiet days stirring a mental fog into swirling dances wreathing a chill dawn's warmth cupped within heavy hands above snowy footprints ever to be puddled where once a water bowl never froze ~ ~ ~ 2025 ©david b. stewart
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hot tea filled his lap
kharma blaired its melody
softer than her eyes
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mankind and woodlands
each share their admiration
for peace: a pine box
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swarms of angry ants
like villagers armed with rakes
raging at monsters
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cloud peaks long abaft
in silent depths 'neath starfish
the winter moon drifts
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sparse as ash falling
first snow barely seen then gone
as thoughts of lush drifts
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with daylight fading
in hearts of children stolen
ICE thrives in darkness
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that sudden impact
jarring present time and space
sometimes forever
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the patio sweats
cool as last year's fireplace ash
when new snow waltzes
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the heartwood hinge snaps
leaves tickle a north wind line
straight as bar and chain
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a warm breath ripples
that mirrored surface of dreams
silent as the carp
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maudlin branches hear
brittle ghosts of once new leaves
rattle dry as bones
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may's kitchen window
lights a flour dusted late frost
atop warm biscuits
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diligently search
for the heifers in distress
frost or none... calves birth
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no fog or drizzle
film grain clouds distort clear views
rainless as a drought
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shod in earthen tones
croci draw pink vestments close
‘neath a hunter's moon
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beneath my porch eaves
mornings and evenings glow
never vivid red
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hid in a book: rights
untouched twixt chilly pages
bound by unclean hands
upside down... backward...
treason worships with intent
crucified as Paul
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crocus blooms kiss light
somber stems breathe but the peat
dreaming of Sol's lips
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bitter walnut tea
sans biscuits. orchids savor
pinkies out... they bloom
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too wet. more than dew.
then, too hot for most blossoms.
no pumpkins sprouted.
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carrots, spuds, onion,
fungi, oil, spices, and cream
craving mushroom soup
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The meme presents a U.S. Memorial Day poem inspired by the United States government's 2025 departure from Constitutional principles and freedoms. The background represents an old U.S. Air Mail envelope framed in red, white, and blue stripes. A partial view of an inverted U.S. flag provides a background header. Immorial Day by David B. Stewart ©
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seclusion tickles
an imagination to
be heard beyond walls
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barren winter woods
yawn renewing twigs yet green
as new leaves, deer bloom
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That cardboard box? Life.
A quill that flew...shells that swam.
Proof young men forget.
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silent willow-draped
evergreen hoarfrost curtsies
‘neath the weight of fog
