*Spell Book*

The Sunday Paper...  We were watching the Sunday Morning show on CBS, A Sunday tradition of ours, Her passing comment took me back decades; ...

The Pits...  As my Mother used to say, "Sometimes in life you get cherries, Other times it's just the pits." What was never me...

The Scent Of The Grind...  The beans spill into the hopper, As I spin the handle in and antique tradition, The scent washes over me, Serenit...

Tarash Sparau... There is an ancient name, They say it was sung by the last summer winds, In chorus with the stormy gales of autumn, Ta...

American Corn... Cheesey, Embellished, Kitschy, Ticky-tacky knic-knac, I love all these roadsides, Waving brash history's hat, It's ...

The Great Spinning...   To cover our nakedness, The first cloth was long-ago spun. All of life is made up of vortices, Perhaps everything in...

Did They Bury Candyo In A Car?  So the music died again this week, Another splinter universe created, A place of fewer songs. If all the Ear...

I Hear A River...  It is easy to imagine sound as a river, With all its twists, Changes in pitch, Gentle or fierce. I hear silence as the ri...

Dream Visions is an antique book of sheet music that I purchased many years ago. It's a series of waltzes. I love the cover art. I sca...

Antiquity Went Green...  In the verdant springtime of mankind, The world was lush and rich with life, Varied of color and shape, ...

Battle Cry...   It used to shriek and ding, Now it softly groans om, The drumbeat of sleepy feet, Never truly rested, Off again to be tested...

Wistful Thinking - Columbia...  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name) The people's goddess, Part caricature, Lady Liberty'...

Melodic Nostalgia...  Sometimes they come to me, An ear-worm in a box frame of faded memory, Playing over and over in my head, Bringing me t...

Old Songs And Karaoke... I was told as an early teenager that I sang like a frog, Of course that crack made me jump back in the pond, Not so...

Boing-Boing-Bang! How I long for the internet of yesteryear, The simplicity and easy read, The uncomplicated pages and sweet graphics, The p...

Touch O' The Night... The constellation Orion snapped with a Galaxy S10. They say space is the final frontier, I'd have to a...

Alien Holiday... Are elves really green? I mean, Like Vulcans in love, Crazy in a strange and magical way, Driven to toy-making as a form of...

Circular History... I dream of esoteric knowledge lost to the steel march of Rome, Of Druids among trees, Branches burned by empire, A dusty...

A Tree Of Celebration... Rooted in the lower world, Land of spirits and ghosts, Loved ones from seasons past, Their stories remembered once ...

Nearing Solstice... A cool crisp night, Sharp pretty stars hidden by charcoal clouds, I sit outside with a jacket, Shivering out poetry to t...