That Is To Say Poems - Poems about That Is To Say

...(Mise en Scène* ‘meez on sen’ - French theatrical term meaning “placing on stage.”) A word has weight I weigh each word lest the wrath of god unbinds the bird that holds the night inside i......Read the rest...

...I do not dream when I sleep, it is the warm embrace of lightheadedness- darkness - and then my eyes crack open. All joints of my body aching, like rusted hinges. I should amend my beginning, it ......Read the rest...

... *After my last post I thought it would be nice to lighten up a bit with some warm, happy (well, not so happy for Elmer) pest poetry. Who doesn't love bug humor? This one actually won first place in......Read the rest...

...Something strange and unexplainable comes this way, this way, it comes to us sly and fast, some say, perhaps, it has already arrived, it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us we go a......Read the rest...

...On the morning of the dawn of my life, I wake into a world where I am good, and I am loved, and every passing moment of it is called Miracle, without need for such words, known unspoken even ......Read the rest...

... It seems that the beef In Stans veggie beef soup. Has gone the same way As most pork and beans do. So, that is to say There isn't much of either. Yet, that's just my view But the price ha......Read the rest...

...Giving thanks unto the eternal inheritance Brought forth by the sacrifice of Christ The consuming fire to burn away weeds and thorns Separating the wheat from the chaff That one might be a dwelli......Read the rest...

...Courage Courage is what you have when you have only two choices left. One of them to accept fate, and the other to cheat it, beat it, unseat it... meet it halfway, and then knock it ......Read the rest...

..."Hebrews 10:19-20 ~ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is......Read the rest...

... "Kaleidoscope" They say another wrote the story, not I. that I, mere I, having little experience, shy and far removed from such an alien world, would not possess the......Read the rest...

...I know of a very good-sounding song. I heard it first when I was very young. Its theme reminds me of a lovely nursery rhyme. It speaks of and longs for peace, harmony, and togetherness. The song ......Read the rest...

...2000 miles is a long way, and 50 plus years is a very long time. It spells the time and space that have separated me and my two best childhood friends. Back then, whether it was hay, ammonia, cowbo......Read the rest...

... In no real sense is he alive: a wind-up toy, personified. A message bundled with a drive, he neither eats or can divide. Two hundred million like himself, each one distinct, yet all ......Read the rest...

...there’s a tree no one really knows where it is or, instinctively, they know where it is but they can never quite find it when they search let me begin again there’s a tree in our imaginations ......Read the rest...

...Fizz- mongering *,the selfie of olden days fizz ..or face ..that is to say monger ...a merchandiser..to sell both phrases forgotten..ditched of late for my English languages..changes..& never dat......Read the rest...