Poems

[Learning always]

Who has written any poem or short stories?

 

[jacks]

adelwez

A little Adelwez goes a long way? Fun story, it reminds me of filling out a medical form for my dad, it asked "How long have you been smoking?" His reply was "82 years."

 

[Norton R. Nowlin]

I have written numerous short stories of varying lengths of differing genres. One of them is an apocalyptic 3,000-word story entitled "The Return." It is a story of the rapture and the return of Christ to the earth. I've tried to place it with a magazine without success. I would like to find a home for it.

 

[linux.poet]

I have written over 200 poems, and am in the middle of organizing them and revising them for publication submissions. That is the unglamorous “work” of poetry.

 

[Norton R. Nowlin]

Here is a poem I wrote in 1980, for which I have not found a home:

"South of Chandler"

An abrupt end to paved road
Began with a deeply rutted lane
Of mounded sand and wet red clay,
Too narrow for two passing cars,
For just one fit the sodden tracks
That led on for quite aways
Around three hills weedy green,
O'er a swollen creek running high,
By a tumbling fence of old barbed wire;
And while the Olds' bumpy gait
About put me right to sleep,
An open window's airy port
Let in perfume of country scent
Blending fresh manure with cottonwood
In nature's rich potpourri,
As from a browning pasture's musty hay
Baled and laid in checkered rows,
I perked and caught the handsel
Which drove my senses wild aflame.

Written about an experience I had in 1956 while riding in a 1950 Oldsmobile eight miles south of Chandler, Texas.

 

[Learning always]

I have written numerous short stories of varying lengths of differing genres. One of them is an apocalyptic 3,000-word story entitled "The Return." It is a story of the rapture and the return of Christ to the earth. I've tried to place it with a magazine without success. I would like to find a home for it.

Why don't you share one or two with us?