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Ken Greenman Poems

1171 NO ANSWERS 04-11-24

I’m not an orthodontist so I don’t have the dental anatomic expertise to know if teeth drift beneath the gums like stones do, underground, after rain, getting hung-up on the root canals of pine and maple trees. or if gums … Continue reading

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1170 ALREADY THERE 04-07-24

, Wanna get to Heaven, Finally? Start now. Find: in your heart, love: in your life, hope: in your mind, faith; in your soul, forgivness: in your body, happiness, and Surprise!! You’ll be there! Standing at the Big Pearlies, waiting … Continue reading

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1169 CHRISTMAS MEMORIES FROM BACK IN THE DAY 03-30-24

After the feast my Great Grand Aunt Genevieve made, we’d sit ’round the dinning table nibbling Krumcaka, sipping Cassis or lemon aid or what ever stronger stuff (for my Dad) my Great Grand Uncle Claus kept close to hand.. They’d … Continue reading

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1168 The Human Part 03-25-24

The human part is the heart of art or what’s creation for? Color, line, texture, rhyme do nothing more than frame. The thought in the poem, “the soul in the bowl” these give Art its name. Pigment splattered on canvas, … Continue reading

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1167 AT 75 03-16-24

I’m at that time in my life where, now, the Reaper now looms as the big interrupter in my scheme to always – be. I live in a community of gray hairs where an actuaries job is actually pretty simple, … Continue reading

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1166 CALL ME BIRD BRAIN, PLEASE. 03-10-24

Sure! Sure! Our close simian cousins, the Chimps, are known to use a hollow in a stone and a heavy rock or an old bone to extract a tasty seed from its shell. The Bonobo, 2nd cousins once removed, solve … Continue reading

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1165 AN ODE TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD 03-07-24

Unless you’re an armadillo in Texas, the middle of the road’s the best way to go. Ya got plenty’a room to wriggle. to the left, to the right… plenty of time to hem and quibble, haw or giggle…. Say a … Continue reading

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1164 TAKEN FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE PROPHETS 02-27-24

After all these years, (I and that nation arising from that same conflagration) I am brought to sorrow and disappointment watching Jews perpetuate genocide on the evening news. No longer can “Gods Chosen” claim the name and protections afforded to … Continue reading

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1163 AIN’T IT QUEER! 02-19-24

Last week I read an article in Sun magazine, Sy Syfransky’s monthly liberal rag my wife subscribes to and I sneak peeks at, about the almost incomprehensible diversity of life on earth. About how speckled with species is the ocean … Continue reading

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1162 TWICE READ O2-O8-24

There’s a secret joy in the reading of a book when you’ve read the book before, but far enough back in your memory so the particulars: “How many days and nights did Santiago fight the great Marlin?” “Why all the … Continue reading

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