Senator Has Been Bernie Sanders
There is a senator who has been Bernie;
Who ended up going on a long journey,
And about lady,
Something shady;
For wife would have to hire an attorney.
Jim Horn
Back in Jane's Burlington College days
in Vermont things were becoming very
suspicious. No wonder he has to be an
independent.
Time is speeding out of control
as life is slowing down
The minutes of my memory
lost hours going round
My eyelids close, the past on fire
last vestige still to find
One image flashes bright and clear
all darkness cast behind
The calendar in ruins
this moment left in charge
The future marching backwards
—the present looming large
(Burlington, North Carolina: April, 2018)
I am sitting up tonight waiting on the rain. A freight train is supposed to blow through around 2 a.m. Burlington Northern heading out of this world. There’s trouble busing in from out of the state. And I want to be there.
I love storms and trains. They let you know they are coming and you know you should get out of the way but something deep inside you tells you to wait and watch. And tonight I shall watch. Midnight in a prison cell won’t stop you. Talk to the judge he’ll be watching as well.
Harmonica moans and the wind howls. The pine trees bend and shake. It’s a mean old world and this storm could care less. Everything dies and that’s a fact.
There’s a place out on the edge of town maybe we could meet there?
And be completely surrounded by the storm.
Park on a back road.
Just you and me?
What does it mean to me
New Jersey
It means smell and warmth
iI……. oops wrong sort of Jersey
Here we go start again …….
Was the home of the Lenape Indians
Till the Dutch and Swedes came their way
Followed by the British who named
It after a channel island off the UK
Was the home of many a battle
Including the American revolutionary war
Who tried to oust the British rabble
Not such an easy chore
New Jersey has many counties
21 was the latest score
Morris County was indeed a pleasant one
Rich in tradition and folk lore
THEN
Theirs Atlantic and Bergen, Burlington too
Camden, Cape May, Cumberland to name but a few
Essex, Gloucester and Hudson come next in line
Hunterdon, Mercer and Middlesex are doing just fine
Monmouth, Morris and Ocean is that enough
Pacific, Salem and Somerset I am now out of puff
Sussex, Union and Warren …….That is New Jersey
It 's springtime in the air
Flowers are popping up everywhere
Nature is waking
From winter's hibernation
Rivers are flowing
As the last of the snow
Is going
This knowing, I rejoice!
Birds are returning
What a welcome sign
They sing a chorus
On the power line
Pretee, pretee, pretee
Sings the Cardinal
In the red coat
Ne're missing a note
And over yonder
As I sit and ponder
I behold creation's beauty
God's handiwork of old!
Written Thursday March 15, 2012
In Burlington Ontario as I sat it the back yard admiring Crocus in full bloom and a male Cardinal's beautiful song from high up in the tree.
O what a variety of things you have made. Psalm 104:24