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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!

822 The preachers last sermon 3-29-19

None of us is fixed to a sure thing, some all powerful truth explaining everything that is, today, then tomorrow fadeing from the believers memory, replaced by another, IDEA… maybe, at times, its opposite… at times, its first cousin-once removed, … Continue reading →

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821 HOW REKAH CRACKED THE SOLID DREAM OF EMPIRE 3-28-19

To say I saved Rekah in any way during the riots in Muljab is, of course, nonsense. Her beautiful brown eyes found me before I ever saw her slender-sari-wrapped-body, washed in blood, gore streaked bodies concealing her, thus her escape … Continue reading →

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820 WHAT’S GIVEN, TAKE 3-10-19

Just recently, I won the multi-million dollar PowerBall. I got six bucks. I’ve learned to take what I get. Sure, Fortune might have smiled her brighter smile at me. I could be sitting in the parking lot waiting for Bank … Continue reading →

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819 A HINT 3-9-19

The Cardinal is a hint of how heaven comes, or death. He does not flutter in, a slow motion float. Rather not here – then- here- in a sudden seconds bold shimmer of a red now. I wish I might … Continue reading →

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818 LIKE AN OLD SONG SUNG 3-7-19

An old song says, “…I ain’t got long to stay here….”. but I feel no haste to “…steal away, steal away home…”. For mine is the hot flow of warm love between my darling wife and I, the bell tone … Continue reading →

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817 WHICH SIDE OF THE SIDEWALK? 3-2-19

Where should the gentleman walk as he escorts his lady? The old wags say it’s “Gentleman to the curb” to block the splash from muddy streets, to protect her from horse hoof spray, (ever a danger on our streets today). … Continue reading →

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816 SCANSION DEFINED 2-24-19

The art before the art. The practise through which the poet uncovers all the sizes and shapes of poetry… as my brilliant grand daughters architectural instinct espresses itself in beautiful, breath taking sand castles dotting the tide line of our … Continue reading →

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815 It’s on you, Pop. 2-3-18

The Son and His Father played catch in the park outside the Pearly Gates. The angels joined in for a lark! See the Son at short-stop, the Father, on first. Gabriel at third, keeping up the chatter, “No Batter! No … Continue reading →

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814 Father in heaven? 2-1-19

In my Fathers house were many women. If it were not so, I wouldn’t need to tell. That includes my Mother, for a brief stint, twenty five years, give or take. I mean, after all, I am here as is … Continue reading →

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813 When You Know It 12-24-18

I knew it – when I couldn’t wear the same pajamas from between our seven-fishes-Christmas Eve through presents and ham and cheese on Christmas Morning through Christmas Day Eve when Poppa and Nana and Mima and Pops slept over, had … Continue reading →

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