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“A quilt for the retiring colonel from mom” Quilts so lovingly stitched at the quilter’s hand Bear stored up curative Medicinality That...

BREAKING NEWS: Jay Secretarski signed today with UPENN to start at Short Stop with a slot in the Wharton School of Business....

Gaithers gather Gaithers garner Two or more In His honor tom tenbrunsel A Carl Sandburg Writer Author’s Note: Photo of Our Lady of the...

Ten turkey chicks Out for a stroll Count them One two three four Five six Two momma hens How proud ((and cautious)) they are Seven eight...

As the pie-clock Strikes 10:21 Thanksgiving leftovers Almost done Now we turn our attention December one To Christmas fun And the new New...

*rendition of the Louve by tom tenbrunsel Bringing shape to time, reason cannot always rhyme in perfect meter. Lincoln had four score,...

*corn pone skillet for sale at Poshmart.com Ate eight ‘O granny’s corn pone afore she ran me out. “Dems set aside for supper, boy. Don’t...

A full spread on the dinning room table, Extended out to twelve, With Mom in apron, my sister Ann, Aunts and uncles, and Uncle...

I write And another reality opens I step on, thru/into it To complete it I become it I am it It is I I am no longer My me You see tom...

Wandering Wondering Lost? I gather and stack logs closely A bird’s nest of crushed grass and leaves and dry stuff Beneath A Ferrocene...

🎶Get down papa! Dig the sound Papa Stick around town Plenty time left To wear the crown Heaven bound Wear the Crown Heaven bound Du ta...

Why, what’s in a question What is the secret to life Why do crows murder Why does the white dove sail Why does the tree bend and not...

If by chance You come upon a fork in the road Already taken Can you re-take it? Or is it lost forever? Because you took the other? tom...

*photo by Lauren Tenbrunsel (and Nana is not naughty at all!)) Are we naughty? What is naughty anyway Why not be nice You naughty naughty...

©️ A single Leaf falls To its destiny As seasons change And life goes on tom tenbrunsel Carl Sandburg Writer 2023 Author’s Note: One leaf suspended. Highlighted. Frozen in photo along destiny’s pathway. Yet? Afterwards indistinguishable in the leaf pile on the ground. We are but the leaf, suspended briefly, having lived, having fulfilled our destiny, drifting one final time, falling, blending into the pile of humanity before us and after. Life is precious. Life is beautiful.

*downtown Marshall was the French Broad DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HELPED AND PRAYERS FOR RECOVERY What impressed me personally during this...

Out my window I awake to nature’s beauty and … Entertainment A swirl of leafy pathways And Autumn nymphs Beckon me And am instantly...

Start with first verse Then it was the black Raven of Death Come to steal poor Poe away Downwards spiraling In a jumble of life events...

*photo by abby ruppert Last night in the twilight of sleep I closed my eyes And ZIP, My mind unloaded a barrage Of facts, writings,...

There are memories Fleeting That are just Beyond my reach tom tenbrunsel A Carl Sandburg Writer Arthor’s Note: A little history in the...