Author Archives: Ken Greenman

Unknown's avatar

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!

1089 UNA VIDA PIN-BALL 11-12-22

Today, it’s one month to go till my “ANO COMPLETO” or however they say it in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Yo tengo 74 anos en todo as a pin ball in, by then, my 75th year! (Three quarters of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1088 IT’S A CRAP-SHOOT 10-30-22

Depending, I’m either lucky, fortunate or blessed, based on whether prayer counts. Does “Thy will be done” eliminate all explanations other than, “Have a blessed day!”? And what if WILL decides I die slowly, my body canabulizing itself in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1087 MORNING LIGHT 10-19-22

I love how morning breaks through gauzey cotton curtains hung around my bedroom bay. here in my home by the sea. First, opaque, blind night shrouds us all. Then the ocean fog dissolves into diamond mist, sparkling in the suns … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1086 DANCING IN A DREAM 10-18-22 (a song, no less!)

Dancing in a dream, it’s so lovely! You holding me tightly! dancing in a dream with you! I love you true. I love to dance with you! Dancing in a dream with you! We’ve been together, through all weather! I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1085 LINES WRIT IN SHIFTING SAND 10-16-22

If I go before you, my soul will be waiting just beyond the crashing surf, watching for you as long as it’s allowed by whoever’s skipper of the crowd, until you are beside me, once again. I will be riding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1084 BIRD TITHE 10-14-22

I try to tithe each months check, bringing a percent of increase to the store house, used to feed the widows and orphans, to heal the sick, and house the poor wanderers, to feed the birds and… Wait a minute! … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1083 John 3:8 at Junaluska 10-8-22

Perhaps it was that the leaves had not yet turned russet as they had the first time. Perhaps it was that the sky was blue and cloudless, being slate gray the first time. Perhaps because the carolilian chime did not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1082 ADVICE TO THE WIDOWERS NEXT WIFE 10-7-22

First, never ask of him questions to which you really don’t want answers. Maybe she did, every morning, prepare for him a farmers breakfast and every night a gormands feast. Chicken cor-don-blu was not difficult for her to do, even … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1081 THE ROOT OF PROGRESS 10-5-22

The guarantee and the root of the efficacy of progress is based solely, squarely and securely on the fact that the last guy or crew or company who, ” Put your old roof on, Madam,”… or installed your AC system … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment

1080 YOU’RE OUT OF MY TIME 09-16-22

I no longer have the time to wait for you to have the time for me! For there is no time BUT the present and no present I can give you like my time! Decide, Damn it! Or watch me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems | Leave a comment