• Mortality Redux

    For some time, I had been getting chest pains. Like any sensible person, I saw my doctor. He referred  me to a specialist who did a treadmill stress test. The results at that time shoved no immediate threat.   Over the next year and a bit, things went from bad to downright nasty. By the…

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  • I’m Back

    For those of you who used to follow  this blog, my apologies.   For a variety of reasons, it is quite some  time since I have posted anything.   This is largely because to ran out  of things to say. I still follow the  news and it still winds me up as much as it…

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  • Christmas Poem

    THE REASON FOR THE SEASON The reason for the season isn’t just another gift. It’s the kindness done for others that will give your heart a lift. It’s not the presents you receive, it’s not the ones you’ve bought. It’s smiles, hugs and faces dear, that will not be forgot. So instead of asking for…

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  • When I was a kid, my brother Jack spent countless hours winding me up with ghost stories.  He took a perverse delight in terrifying me.  We had no hydro or TV and the nearest neighbor was miles away.  I guess I was his entertainment.  He had a knack for turning the most mundane thing into…

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  • For years I suffered from crippling social anxiety, stress and depression.  It took a long time and a lot of hard work to get to where I am now.  This poem is to help people understand three who are now where I was then. It’s An Illness, Not A Choice Another day has dawned and…

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  • Reading some Poe earlier lent tonights verse a more macabre air.  Infidelity, vengeance and remorse…. Enjoy! Ghost of a Romance You come to me, you cling to me, You beg what I can’t give. You shade, you fade, oh spectre rude, I can’t help you to live. You shriek, beseech, and weep at me, You…

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  • My Dad and I didn’t always see eye to eye. But despite that, we never gave up on each other. Keeping those lines of communication open gave us the chance to grow and change and grow together. This poem is for my Father, Thank You So Father’s Day Rolls ’round again, I want to thank…

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  • So, I was drawing during my training again today (it’s that or doze off every five minutes).  The dwarf below is the result of all that learning 😀 Cheers, Winston

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  • Thinking of Ray Bradbury and Clive Barker tonight.  Love the sinister carnival theme.  The Carnival Behold the great and secret show, Dare you to enter in? There’s love and beauty honor too, Debauchery and sin. There’s every kind of freak inside, Just take a look my friend, You’ll see we’re really all the same, Mere…

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  • For those who thought I might be done with poetry…. that will probably never be the case.  Tonights verse is courtesy of the wilderness  is my backyard.  It got to the point my dog didn’t have room to go out to go pee.  So Lynn and I got busy and reclaimed part of it for…

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