(July 13-14, 2023)
hide behind big words
he built paragraphs for fun
see how letters fit
charcoal stick on a dark slate
a president becomes myth
Month: July 2023
“Each (Of Us) Is Doomed” Tanka 6044
(July 14, 2023)
each (of us) is doomed
by the very act of birth
from life comes our death
do radishes cry when pulled
yet from a weed’s seed comes bread*
*(We won’t get into how butter is extracted from a usually mild-mannered herbivore (not counting goats).
“Of Ben Crump & His Piece (of your pie) & Just Us Briga(n)d(e)” Tanka 6057
(July 30, 2023)
Ben Crump*’s Large . says
he’s in charge (of civil rights )
ligitate-agitate
Our Sunday Stupids party
and wish Trevon dead elsewhere
*(Lawyer and shakedown artist Ben Crump came to prominence when he hijacked a relatively innocuous piece of coming sex-marauder crimewave sent to his room for misbehavior in school in South Florida so he skipped out and came to Sanford instead where with joints blowing he walked on a dark day turned night and found his demise whist window shopping his way toward Lake Mary (both Central Florida town once linked by railroad wars of the earlier 20th Century and a mutual distrust of each other’s leaders and movers shakings, the perfect petri dish for a legal buzzard shedding scruples to make Jesse Jackson swoon. Crump kowtowed the public, its leaders and press and parents – perhaps on both sides. Messer Crump then took his Large & In Charge medicine show on the road and became a media daring darling and now brokers big bucks and me-wonders how much of the winds-fall into his pockets? An earlier iteration of the scam garnered wealth and fame and perhaps shed a few lawsuits and perhaps criminal complaints which turned lesser men from mere mortals to demi-monsters out hunting pander and plunder. Whom Crump now rouses to rabble is beyond my ken – if I were so inclined to surface up to sewer-level I might reason a guess. Instead of shaking down suitably guilty corporate exchequeries he’ll settle possibly for a willing weak-willed government and then on to a posting at some ambassadorial level. You think? We have done – in this land of free-exercise of unthink and blind jerking knees far worse, though give Lawyer Crump some time and I am sure he will match the stakes.)
Moon-bound
How could a moon- and sea-child such as I fail to become captured by your painted words, dear Lady?
watery vowels
a sea filled with ancient tales
liquid sky arches
a horizon that unravels
waves prance, curling into
a bed of sand, like
blue irises promenading my steps
moana of gliding turquoise blossoms
ebb and flow to a meandering, pursuing moon ..
I walk into the flare of a lighthouse
a rush of salt on my breath
the sea the day I conquered my tears..
I’ll again hide from the “works” thankee so very little – j
“This Boulevard For The Birds”
(July 3, 2023)
After the 2008 series of tropical storms and hurricanes stretching past to the earlier years of the current century, Lake Monroe which sits atop Sanford’s northern border has flooded and sent fish and other aquatic creatures into downtown even after a seawall which was later revised and extended several times made attempts to control the flooding. The wading and non-wading birds take advantage of the impromptu “smorgasbord” every time. All photos copyright (c) by J Kirk Richards. Word Press subscribers and Facebook friends are granted permission to use the images in their electronic media so long as photo credit/copyright notice included. J Richards
“Boulevard For The Birds”
(July 3, 2023)
Lake Monroe spills over its artificial banks in downtown Sanford, Florida, bringing a feast for all kinds of birds along the lakefront’s southern boundary – the seawall-protected Seminola Boulevard is awash and smaller fish cruise the street which attracts the buffet-conscious long-legged wading birds and their shorter-legged cousins.Whatever I’m Imbibing, First Pours For Them – Rick Lillie and Greg Sloat: RIP
Blue Jay Sees J – 2006 in Sanford, Florida
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