Welcome to my PERSONAL WRITINGS & THOUGHTS page. There is a multitude of links on this page to such things as poetry, short stories, nonsense, random thoughts, ravings, etc. Enjoy!

BLACK WIDOW (A Sonnet) The bleak and black-heart bitch, unlike her clone, The web-borne widow weaving wistful wiles, But leaves him, languishing in love, alone, And ne'er devours her spouse, but spitef'ly smiles. So spared, the sap's reprieved from primal pain, But not released, to live a death detached, To harp on her who spilled his spore like rain And stole his soul while hoarding hers, well-cached. Arachne's found'ring fault for weaving wrongs: Athena's ire displaced to swooning swains. I'd sooner so succumb to sirens' songs 'Sto shock my ship on shores, wax-plugs restrained. The female prates of pain while lab'ring life But does not deem love's death's prodigious price.

OTHER SONNETS (NOTE: The blue link below each title is the same sonnet embellished with imagery and music (mostly Chopin). Cheryl Ann Acceptance/Refusal (with sound and graphics) Susurrate (with sound and graphics) Life (with sound and graphics) Valeska (with sound and graphics) Suicide (with sound and graphics) Lips (with sound and graphics) Afterthought (with sound and graphics) Age (with sound and graphics) Anticipation (with sound and graphics) Robert Browning's Wife (with sound and graphics) Career Ennui (with sound and graphics) Ceding to the Big Guy (with sound and graphics) Detour (with sound and graphics) Dream (with sound and graphics) Drooping Daisies (with sound and graphics) Faith (with sound and graphics) Fantasy (with sound and graphics) GG11 (with sound and graphics) Guinevere (with sound and graphics) Hesitant Hope (with sound and graphics) Hopscotch (with sound and graphics) Karma (with sound and graphics) Lacerated (with sound and graphics) Missed Dance (with sound and graphics) Old Age (with sound and graphics) Old Boy (with sound and graphics) Rainbow (with sound and graphics) Son (with sound and graphics) Stalemate (with sound and graphics) Submission (with sound and graphics) Taunting Child (with sound and graphics) True Love (with sound and graphics) Turning on the Lights (with sound and graphics) Vogue Child (with sound and graphics) White Flag (with sound and graphics)

THE WAGON The humor and folly of it all is not wasted on me, Merely muted by reality, the downward ride away from expectation Becoming inured to the buffeting wind of gravity and despair. There is no levelling ahead. A vague wall hard to focus upon, yet impossible to ignore. The ride has lost its bumps now smooth even boring. Frustrations thrust out to stretch and become more comfortable, more...acquiescing. An awfully humble cart for such an important ride, yet lighter, less close. The steering mechanism inoperable, and I've yet to see, nor shall, a wagon with a brake. Towed by tides of destiny and time, a pair who hear not that the ride should cease Yet pass through walls that halt the load...at last again at peace.

OTHER POETRY Chat Commentary on My Youth Don Quixote Mara's Birthday Poem Nestlednextherneck Trout Mask Replica Revisited

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." PAUL VALERY

HAIKU For all of you amateur poets out there who feel a great sense of accomplishment when writing HAIKU, here are my contributions to crap poetry (with tongue firmly in cheek). Haiku (main page) Haiku Bar Haiku Ex-Wife Haiku Goose Haiku Teeth Haiku Wrong Man

A few of the beginning chapters of a NOVEL [though I am debating if the content is suitable for this site and may not upload the rest of it]: BOCHER'S HOLLOW (main page) Dedication Epigrams Player Introductions December 25, 1962, 7:00 a.m. December 25, 1962, 7:30 a.m. NOT LOADED YET: July 4, 1966, 11:30 p.m. October 15, 1970, 5:00 p.m. December 26, 1970, 12:30 p.m. December 26, 1970, 1:00 p.m. July 19, 1972, 9:30 p.m. July 20, 1972, 10:00 p.m.

SHORT STORIES:

The Banana Boat (Ad)Venture Brevity is the Soul of Time The Cabin on Stilts Two Similar Games on Different Scales The Wake Nature Child Merry Juana A Man Ain't Nothin' without his Gun NOTE: More to come

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." BERTRAND RUSSELL

"Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions." ANDRE MAUROIS

"In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it." GORE VIDAL

RANDOM THOUGHTS & OTHER RAVINGS

George W. Bush Car Repair "The Bigger They Are..." Billy Graham The Blind Dwarf Confidence vs. Diffidence Coors Light Da Vinci's Corvair Club Dog Obedience School Etymology & Entomology Headlines You'll Probably Never See My Hobbies My Job The Lone Ranger "Never..." The Nixon Legacy Nude Events Pre-menstrual Syndrome Random Thoughts

Sheepdogs Thumbs UFOs Uranus What Yardsales of the Unintentional Kind The Housekeeper The Gasoline Tanker The Superficial Man The Art of Verbosity Bumper Stickers The Grey Lady Marcel Marceau's SBD's Moby Disk Mysteries of Life Random Thoughts (of a serious nature) T-shirts How to Avoid Offending People The End

STRANGER THAN WEIRD: Introduction The Mystery of Arnold Long Spontaneous Human Combustion Jimmy Johnson The Dog-Boy of Miami Priscilla's Haunted House

HAPPY GASH, VIRGINIA The Saga of a Small Town (in photos and graphics with commentary): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Points of Interest

ACTUAL ITEMS FROM CATALOGS THAT I HAVE RECEIVED: Introduction Finger Massager Hunter T-shirt Nads Removal Cream Potty Putt

THOUGHTS OF OTHERS: Albert Einstein The Key to a Happy Life The Old Man, the Young Boy, and the Donkey Socrates' Death THINGS TO PONDER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 BUMPER STICKERS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

I hope my "animal magnetism" brings you back to my site soon.

POSTSCRIPT "Writing is the supreme solace." SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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