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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!

79 – SEPARATION I

The only good thing about my being here when you are way over there is… ah… well… yes, the thing is, that… oh, well… I tried.

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78 – TO MY KING & QUEEN: ON THEIR WEDDING

“Majestic!” They have destroyed that word! Read through some damned dictionary just to see: Majestic Alarms Systems Majestic Can Corp. (ash cans!) Majestic Garage Majestic Rug Cleaning Co. Inc. (Two of them!!) Majestic Staple Co. Oh’ my poor weeping muse! … Continue reading →

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77 – EASTER

how long I have lain here dying I shall never know. life roots as far back as it flowers forward… but here, now in this moment, you divide eternity. in our savage lavish ravishing thrusts in the love lusts I … Continue reading →

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76 – HER BIDDING

I love her when she bids me, “Come! quickly!” see the sun above the ocean rise to paint dawn sky, sea spray, apricot, the unhindered horizon shimmering yellow gold. I come, not so quickly from a warm bed, am stunned … Continue reading →

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75 – A MIDNIGHT MIST

From the other side of fog comes the echo of your steps. You, splashing paths in street puddles. You are beautiful, though I cannot see you you are beautiful though your hair is drenched you are beautiful because you are … Continue reading →

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74 – A remembering interlude

They’re playing our song. A memory sings me back to you. A melody of smiles with a counterpoint of tears. The harmony our voices sang echos now and then in the wooded, peaceful spaces that at times surround my life. … Continue reading →

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73 – OBSTACLE

eyes stare deep into eyes which look down to hands holding tightly other hands not letting go. arms wrap around arms pressing, pulling waists, shoulders, legs, hips together. yesterdays, hopes, nows, together yet not one. an invisible, unbreakable bubble, something … Continue reading →

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72 – A PASSION TOO INTENSE

I How potent her illicit love… she sits, waits at her desk, stares. She remembers her promise to keep or break, or deny ever having made. She weighs her wanting. There are no hours like moments with him. His name … Continue reading →

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71 – I DON’T MIND

I don’t mind a rainy Sunday morning If I can lay beside my lady and count the times we come and go wherever our minds will travel and talk of all good things to do tomorrow, someday and now…

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70 – THE WINDS

Will you, with me, surrender to the wild winds, to the wild hot winds wet with humid passion? moist memory lingering longing longing to simmer in damp love soaked sheets sweet to the senses. The tart taste on the tongue, … Continue reading →

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