Tag Archive for: Nixon Waterman
The Breaking Plow
War and ConflictThe Breaking Plow
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I am the plow that turns the sod
That has lain for a thousand years;
Where the prairie's wind-tossed Bewars nod
And the wolf her wild enb rears,
I come, and in my wake, like rain,
In scattered the golden seed;
I…
The One Who Gets The Cake
ReflectionsTHE ONE WHO GETS THE CAKE
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The man who is slow and collected
May capture some prizes, perhaps:
But the wideawake mind full of "ginger," you'll find,
Is the one that gets into the "anaps"
…
Which Road
ReflectionsWhich Road?
2015
If you could go back to the forks of the road
Back the long miles you have carried the load;
Back to the place where you had to de- cide
By this way or that through your life to abide;
Back of the grieving and back of the care,
Back…
The Clock Will Tick It Away
ReflectionsTHE CLOCK WILL TICK IT AWAY
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'Mid the many tasks the years Im- pose
Come blithe and blissful times,
And strewn through a world of rustic prose
Are ripples of restful rhymes
But the joys we deem the dearest seem
The shortest in their…
Looking For Trouble
Sailing and the SeaLooking for Trouble
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If what "they say" is really true, that all the woes that vex
The men-folks are occasioned by the fairer, weaker sex,
The former ought to sail away across the wide, wide sea
To some far land where they could dwell…
A Relapse
ReflectionsA Relapse
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Within the city's din and dust,
Its heat and toil and friction,
I dwelt, as many mortals must,
Till saddened with affliction
I called a doctor, one
I knew To be a skilled reliever
Of human ills; said he, "Sir, you
Are…