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🎶tune of “The Gambler” with apologies to Kenny Rogers🎶 On a hot summer’s morning, on a road bound for nowhere, I met up with a...

A lone ball awaits patiently, Cheerfully lonely, Basking bobbing about, Suspended? In sunbaked pool, For, its playmate has Gone by way of...

You see I very often go back later, awhile after you’ve read a poem, and change it or add words, punctuations, etc. to my posted poems...

One cannot mask the soul of man nor can you kill it! Soon the mask will be lifted and we shall be delivered from insanity. God will...

My Love was only one month old, My Love was scarcely two. My Love is not yet three months old, My Love I find is new. But be My Love but...

I Had a dream that I woke up one morning and there were no more taxes and no more debt, the gold standard was back, Fort Knox replenished...

All is silent on my hill. I can’t see the house beside me, Nor the tree before me. The fog has moved into my mountains. Shrouded, I can’t...

The “two second” rule: Stay 2 seconds behind the vehicle in front of you. Don’t tailgate. I allow three. Expect people to cut in front...

A boat creaks and lurches, Boards moan and bitch, ‘ginst the mighty sea, It is the lurch and creaking that saves her. It is a well built...

A Mysterious Trent Jones Par Three But the memory is as clear, As that moonlit night, We played golf, At Hampton Cove, I believe, quite...

”I am smiling!” Message from the Tree: Without carbon I die. Without me, you die. You do the math. The heart leaps when we add; the soul...

https://www.tenbrunsel.com/message-from-the-chestnut The message is quite clear. It’s a message to all of us to heed the plight and...

It’s a secret! It’s a secret garden. Well, I got this idea on how to grow secret stuff in plain sight, from Rick Austin (Just buy his...

I sit at my lonely, Familiar desk, Caught up in the whirlwind, That whisks me along With it, Willingly at best. As no man is an island,...

https://youtu.be/U-SswXHllPw HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY Turn up the Volume and stand up🇺🇸 Kaitlin Ten (far left)

Lord give me a throttle, As I ride up toward the sky. And dear Lord, watch me closely, On steep decente’ As my daughter flashes,...

HOW TO PADDLE A CANOE There are 7 basic canoe strokes: Forward Stroke, Sweep, Draw, Cross-Draw, J-Stroke, Pry, Brace FORWARD STROKE –...

Good morning, Dad. You know it’s really uncanny how much we look alike. For years, I never realized it. For I always pictured myself that...

Daring, poise, beauty, talent, stage presence, at fifteen a mere child, a star is born, cold chills at her solo performance of “On My...

Day done, I got ready for bed the same routine as always, late nights. In my comfy PJs, I fluffed up My Giza Pillow, just like Mike does...