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February 15th, 2021 
St. Valentine kneeling in supplication – 1677 by David Teniers III
httpv://youtu.be/fNFvcQnvx-k
There is nothing more delightful than a great poetry reading to warm ones heart on a cold winter night fireside. Today is one of the coldest Valentine’s days on record, thus, nothing could be better than listening […]
May 9th, 2021 
Smith, Charles Loraine; The Billesdon Coplow Run
*note – Billesdon and Billesden have both been used to name the hunt.
BILLESDEN COPLOW POEM
[From “Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq”]
The run celebrated in the following verses took place on the 24th of February, 1800, […]
May 9th, 2021 
The Hunt Saboteur is a national disgrace barking out loud, black mask on her face get those dogs off, get them off she did yell until a swift kick from me mare her voice it did quell and sent the Hunt Saboteur scurrying up vale to the full cry of hounds drowning out her […]
May 9th, 2021 
” Here’s many a year to you ! Sportsmen who’ve ridden life straight. Here’s all good cheer to you ! Luck to you early and late.
Here’s to the best of you ! You with the blood and the nerve. Here’s to the rest of you ! What of a weak moment’s swerve ? […]
July 4th, 2019 
Robert W. Service (b.1874, d.1958)
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night […]
April 2nd, 2019 
Click here to read Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
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August 20th, 2018 
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span; He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring’s honied cud of youthful thoughts he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high […]
July 3rd, 2018 
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Top of Pg. […]
July 2nd, 2018 
Motel, Motel Do Tell
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July 2nd, 2018 
Tucked into all corners of the large stately farm house Loquacious aunts, uncles of letters, adventure and public house, Grandmother wrapped in wool, grandfather’s pipe Gas fired ceramic tiled fireplaces, a Christmas delight Glowing red ember warming through the night
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July 2nd, 2018 
We opened the doors on the old Dodge van parked under the big oak tree the old farm house etched with memory ropes hanging down and an old plank swing She kicked her bare feet playfully in the dirt and then soared to the sky Looking out over Illinois corn fields full in growth, […]
June 26th, 2018 
Exhaust blackened dirty snow Bleak City cold winter sting Cars in ditches Tire chains and rock salt Doughnut shop at four am Factory whistle blows at five Hot coffee on the dashboard Eyes on the road Front wheel drive Cadillac I’ll make it on time
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June 26th, 2018 
Awakened to mild rumbles of thunder and pounding rain washed down by a steady drizzle and more downpour coating asphalt with mirrored reflections of oily alluvial runoff easing back into a soothing pattern of velvety rain drops drizzling down the foliage encased wrought iron balcony rails
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June 26th, 2018 
The Interrogation of Joan of Arc by Cardinal Winchester
Pussy Willow wielded a real broad sword Honed with diamonds and emery board They say she cut her own umbilical chord The day she strapped it on to serve her Lord
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June 26th, 2018 
Western prairie quiet broken by forged steel Sage Grouse dance, feathers of resplendent golden lace oblivious to Manifest Destiny’s race Juniper trees observe from high peaks Wisps of threadbare clouds converging on progress
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June 26th, 2018 
Pirate plunder, sailboat trash, cruise ship waste oil cargo leaks, party boat beer cans, trawler diesel hurricane timber, tsunami tin, maelstrom hulls 1452, 1633, 1785, 1823, 1900, 1956, 1989, 2005 skulls, bones, kneecaps, shoulder blade, hip bones doubloons, pieces of eight, gold, pearls, emeralds daggers, dirks, walking planks, broadswords, canon balls sloshing, swooshing, swaying, […]
June 26th, 2018 
Once you get your first pair You’ll find them everywhere Up and down the stairs Even a pair in your chair
A pair in the kitchen For cutting up chicken One made of hard plastic to take a licking
A fine gold pair for putting on airs a silver pair too, looks good on […]
June 24th, 2018 
By the time I got to California the blondes had gone home The Beach Boys were sporting dreadlocks and singing reggae songs The life guard at the tower didn’t have a tan Said if you’re looking for Mama Cass she’s asleep over there in the van
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June 24th, 2018 
Every home should have one to be opened in spring A jar that sits on the table full of baseball dreams
Inside will be found there pennants and things The smell of fresh cut grass and pinstriped rings A pair of old tickets to the game never played, Do you remember how cold it […]
May 3rd, 2018 
Here, where these low lush meadows lie, We wandered in the summer weather, When earth and air and arching sky, Blazed grandly, goldenly together.
And oft, in that same summertime, We sought and roamed these self-same meadows, When evening brought the curfew chime, And peopled field and fold with shadows.
I mind me of […]
April 2nd, 2018 
I once met a chap, hailed from Harvard said where’d ye attend school, this here is starboard On his diploma was a bit more yellow Than that on the belly of his scholarly fellows His hat was a good half inch taller Than his lapels which were narrowly smaller So I yanked him up […]
April 1st, 2018 
I swapped a parakeet for a red-headed Macaw That drank my rum and called me paw I’d rock in my chair, she’d swing on her perch When the preacher came around she’d pretend it was church
On Saturday mornings when we drove into town She’d ride on the back of my blue-tick hound Howling […]
March 28th, 2018 
How happy is he born and taught. That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill
Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath;
Who envies none that chance […]
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