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A Shade of Ash # 15 – Today’s A Given

Posted on June 7, 2021 2 Comments

As another day sets, I stand in retrospect and watch as the sun goes away…maybe forever. A few minutes left of today to ponder some yesterdays with an old friend who has since lost his battle. Sadly, I am reminded of one of the realities of life is death. And, how sometimes we take life […]

Just Before The Bridge

Posted on May 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

four shadows passing by midnight the king, the jack, the ace, and the joker pushing and shoving…jousting in jest their laughter lulling the moon as street lights froze everything in timeand the world just slept shuffle and stroll in the wake of the chopping shorethey poked and praised, challenged some more free until the sun began to peek then they retreat with […]

For What It’s Wharf

Posted on November 2, 2020 7 Comments

Don’t take any ship. If friends dock behind your back, they should not be a port of your life. – A Little Pun Ash

Journal Entry # 212 – It’s How I Field

Posted on October 13, 2020 3 Comments

Friends come in flowers, some in weeds. The flowers rise with us, support us, and share in the things that help us grow and prosper. The weeds smother us, try to take us over, steal all the sunshine and choke out life until we fall. When you plant your gardens, make sure you can tell […]

French Island

Posted on June 8, 2019 6 Comments

surrounded in the francaisschoolboys like I, chase through stone corridors in jestpass tank topped bread makers andrum runners filling dark sackswho was I to speak to the going-ons of this foreign landtake me instead to the countrysidein an hour less a halfshare with me tales let me sip wineand pretend that I am a man

Ashback # 8 – Wolverine Gull

Posted on May 30, 2019 3 Comments

Hey everybody, I received a comment on my blog this morning that was left on yesterday’s entry. It not only blew me away, but it also hyper-spaced me down memory lane. It was from an old friend of mine from my childhood. Scratch that, an old best friend of mine, and boy did it instantly […]

Ashback # 1 – Weezer

Posted on October 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

It was one of the hottest days that summer. We hung outside the apartment all afternoon drinking London Dock mixed with Lemonade. You kept singing the sweater song by Weezer at the top of your lungs. Both of us…not a care in the world. Cheers Best Friend!!! #1999