Songs For Free

In the swale below the elm

And not so far from the wooded hut

Where the ax-man rests

Within view of the great house

Where nobody lives

And cut through by the shallow brook

Who's bed still hides little yellow flakes

Overlooked by the violent Goldrush

Set apart from the Valley 

By an ancient split-rail fence

Erected not to separate

But to demarcate

As points on a map

There below the lone rain cloud

Who's sole purpose is to feed the brook

And keep the crows away

There in the lonely place

Lost to time

There south of the bustling town

Who's bell broke in such a way

As it has never stopped ringing

East of the Ocean

Unfettered by time

Cast out of the seasons

And imagined nightly

By boys who refuse to become men

Girls who refuse to wear skirts

Fences that refuse to be painted white

Sleepers awaken

And draw a veil 

Between those lovely things they desire

And what they've learned to expect

Deep in the swale

Below the elm

Who's leaves refuse to fall

Not so far from the wooded hut

And the ax-man's smokeless chimney

Bisected by the shallow brook

Still hiding her secrets

There

Resides a deep well made shallow 

By the abundance

Of otherwise ordinary pebbles

Tossed in, abandoned

By morning and its rules

But they are, each of them

Songs

Poems

Stories

Mad love

Laughter so genuine it hurts

Living ghosts of those

To whom we have said goodbye

But never let go

Dreams

And they are all

Each of them

More precious than nearby gold

And they are all

Each of them

Free

Reviews

[Myra Fellows]

Yeah. This is good. I found myself looking ahead and having to pull back to the prose. Where was this going? What is the point???? But I like it. I feel it is about the Writer's Cafe in general. All of us. Just writing and posting and giving. We don't expect anything. We don't want anything. We just blurt. We want to get it out there. No obituary. No headstone. All you want to know is right here. F**k the legacy. None of us survive. AWESOME.

[Lacey Sue]

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