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About Ken Greenman

Married and Happy. Retired and busy. Living in NC. 71 and counting. December 12, 2025 and it's 77! ... I would love some written comments, critiques, adulation or kind suggestions.... If you have the time and or inclination, please feel free! Not in fear but by faith. We will see. See you later! If you ever want to talk for real, email me and I will send you my cell number.... I am enjoying this!

219 My father in my mirror

It occurred to me this morning, I have the same hair color as my Father. I started out a tow head, he started out a brunette, but we have met today in balding shades of gray. I know people say … Continue reading →

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218 After a date indecision

So, when the lady said, after a pleasant first date, “Do you want to come inside for a little while?” I thought, “What does she mean?” And since I could not quite uncover it, or get the lay of the … Continue reading →

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217 This morning, the cat came.

I threw a book at the cat this morning for I was well provoked. He was so – intentional, scratching on the wicker chest, his cloying hint to be let out or fed or petted or something or nothing, just … Continue reading →

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216 Exercise

Because I’m nuts, I find wierd exercise as I walk the woods and look for trees, bent over, dead, but still standing and I push them down as they deserve. I knock ’em over, these bent and broken birch for … Continue reading →

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215 Broken birches

Beware bent, broken birches, white skeletons on forest path who could not, by either strength or flex survive wicked winter winds. Beware grasping birch bones which trip you along your way. Fruitless to ponder why that birch but not this … Continue reading →

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214 Faces

The anarchists face, the dictators face, is the same face. It’s in the eyes. Eyes that will not see where my nose begins, eyes blind to all but Will, the Will to see as they will, no matter what their … Continue reading →

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214 Air Map

In the lacey laberinth of leaf and limb lies a path to nest and nuts, unmarked, but to those who know the map. Up the trunk, out on the branch, tetering on a bending, bending, bending twig, s t r … Continue reading →

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213 In no hurry

I admire the leaf unhurried. Who is in no rush to be buried. Who holds to life, through wind, storm, ice, holds tight for he knows where he’s bound if he’s blown to the ground.

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212 why we need violence, disaster, bloody gore and plague in our free time entertainments

“….and then I woke up” But there was nothing to be like, scared about, you know? It was just a nightmare. The 747 I wasn’t flying wasn’t about to explode. From the Everest I wasn’t climbing, I wasn’t gonna off … Continue reading →

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211 A leaf life

The life span of a leaf is brief. From springs gold birth to summers green, to Autumns red and then she’s dead. But in her time, she’s worn the robes God weaves so fine. She’s fluttered in breeze, kited on … Continue reading →

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