Blog and Commentary

As Winter Comes

Oh! There came no sunshine back home today.So faint it’s music now as snowflakes playO’er the cold-winded leaves fallen away. And so it is so always so – so always so As winter comes again so — so comes the snow.Comes with its sorrows and growth’s tomorrowsFrom shrill wind’s freeze

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THE ASSAULT OF GENIUS

October 6, 2018 – to – September 15. 2022 – With some revisions to date. Daily I’m assaulted by Genius from my library, from new publications (most of which I’ll never read), and from the developing sciences, some of which I think I comprehend. These thinkers, writers, performers, poets, professors

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DEAR HUMANITY

Due to the Ukraine invasion and world vulnerabilites, I just added this epistle to my book Ports O’Call – The Journey Home – which should be published by an April date. – MDOK DEAR HUMANITY – I hope you get this letter of 3/22 with the hope you’ll grasp its

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We Didn’t Have to Learn to Cry

O! Just to learn to bear&hear the rimes of cries& joys, Before we cry ourselves to sleep. Wail-born in sounds of die –we didn’t have to learn to cry. We burst alive, womb-to-hands, sobbed and teary-eyed, Ready for this world’s salt-in-the-wound’s loving care With its daily fare-to-fair of truth-to-trust —-

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Stay With Me

STAY WITH ME Every day I implore you to stay with me Not to ever leave me Stay with me through the night Sing with me in the rain Rise with me at the Dawn Meet me in the garden Stay with me as I wonder wander In my still

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WHERE WILL I GO . . .? (44 lines of For Forever)

mdok— 5/29/21 Memorial Day Where will I go when there’s no race-place else to run? Where will I go when the great bell tolls “You’re Done?” Out in the wind! Clod in the ground! A struck statistic! The silence of sound! Merest click on Send-Delete! Mystic-compete of ride-the-stride –to rhymed-complete?

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