A SAD SAGA FOR PETE'S SAKE
By Whiskers
Spectacled Pete hadn’t seen Annie Body since he busted his glasses riding bronc back in Bucking Mule Falls, Wyoming. A tenderfoot, he had signed up to compete in their Rodeo last May, on his March to see his sweetheart, the lovely August June, up in Steamboat Springs, in the Colorado territory.
His sidekick, Bitters Bart, an alcoholic with a rye sense of humor when drinking, and a sober disposition when he ain’t, was well known to have fallen in love with Annie Body, any time they crossed path’s.
Before Annie Body, Bart was smitten with Della from Dubuque. Iowa, but tired of getting the same ol’ runaround from Spectacled Pete every time he’d run into her in town. You see, Bart later would always ask Pete, What will Delaware on our next date… a New Jersey? Pete would always answer, Idaho… Alaska, but he never did. Pete was funny that way, always had a stately answer when it came to his pardner Bart.
Well, to get back to our story, Annie Body was from back East, a Southerner with Western ambitions, from Gum Springs Junction in Northern Goochland County, Virginia. She’d always had a hankerin to marry a cowboy and start their own little herd. Well, Bitters Bart, lookin the part when sober, pawned himself off as a hard ridin cowpoke to Annie Body who’d listen and be taken in by his western tact.
She’d been out in Bucking Mule Falls for their annual Rodeo at the request of her half brother Chuck Wagon, a wheeler dealer with a grub steak in that traveling Rodeo outfit.
His sidekick, Bitters Bart, an alcoholic with a rye sense of humor when drinking, and a sober disposition when he ain’t, was well known to have fallen in love with Annie Body, any time they crossed path’s.
Before Annie Body, Bart was smitten with Della from Dubuque. Iowa, but tired of getting the same ol’ runaround from Spectacled Pete every time he’d run into her in town. You see, Bart later would always ask Pete, What will Delaware on our next date… a New Jersey? Pete would always answer, Idaho… Alaska, but he never did. Pete was funny that way, always had a stately answer when it came to his pardner Bart.
Well, to get back to our story, Annie Body was from back East, a Southerner with Western ambitions, from Gum Springs Junction in Northern Goochland County, Virginia. She’d always had a hankerin to marry a cowboy and start their own little herd. Well, Bitters Bart, lookin the part when sober, pawned himself off as a hard ridin cowpoke to Annie Body who’d listen and be taken in by his western tact.
She’d been out in Bucking Mule Falls for their annual Rodeo at the request of her half brother Chuck Wagon, a wheeler dealer with a grub steak in that traveling Rodeo outfit.
And so Chuck Wagon continued on the Rodeo circuit, dishing out plenty of advice to the crowds. Annie Body joined an east bound wagon train back to Gum Springs Junction where she married an entrepreneur and got into Annie Body’s business that she could. Bitters Bart, who split from Pete was eventually done in by Jack Daniels out behind the Last Chance Saloon. And Spectacled Pete never saw Annie Body again because he could never find a proper fitted pair of glasses out on the trail. And loosing his pardner Bart, over a broken heart, blindly drifted aimlessly for the rest of his lonely life, never getting to see his true love August June in Colorado, under a Harvest Moon again.
So the moral of the story is; For Pete’s Sake, don’t let your pard get in Annie Body’s business till you can see straight, or you’re bound to fall on hard times.
THE ARBORIST IN ME
By Whiskers
Twenty years ago a neighbor
sent off for flowers and a tree,
the flowers she then planted
the bare-root tree she offered me.
She was sorely disappointed
in this slimy twig they sent,
supposed to be a maple tree
in their color advertisement.
She had no trust in it at all
and would have tossed it out,
but I came to stake a claim to it
in spite of all her doubt.
I planted it back in our woods
in a clearing to get some sun,
and carried water to it daily
a labor of love, not just for fun.
Eventually this limp pathetic thing
began to strengthen up,
and by the fall was one foot tall
I'd had a bit of luck.
So I fertilized to feed it
to prepare it for the winter,
this homely little leafless twig
less tree more like a splinter.
Low and behold the spring came
and it budded a few leaves,
besides a tender side branch
even my neighbor now seemed pleased.
They hadn't lied, a maple tree it was
and it grew one foot a year,
branching out and beautifying
each year when it's leaves appeared.
I built a trellised bench nearby
to sit and watch it grow,
my not so secret garden
that had come into vogue.
For even this next door neighbor
would come to sit to take a break,
to take in our golden garden
where one could meditate and pray.
Well just yesterday with leaves half gone
in response to our first frost,
I walked out back and culled the ground
through the leaves that it has lost,
And picked up its colored foliage
from summer green through winter red,
that showcase the color pallet
that these maple leaves had bred.
Then I smiled at this maple tree
for the joy it gives to me,
in this peaceful wooded setting
a special Blessing that was Free.
THE DARK AGES
by Whiskers
Adversity:
A thief that breaks into my world
The joy from life to steal,
The victor, when I let strife
Upset my even keel.
The joy from life to steal,
The victor, when I let strife
Upset my even keel.
When black clouds storm In rumbling
Obscuring all that’s blue,
And block the sunshine from my life
In a colorless dark hue,
Obscuring all that’s blue,
And block the sunshine from my life
In a colorless dark hue,
With winds that whip up drama
In unprecedented height,
And destroy the melancholy
By the sheer power of its might,
In unprecedented height,
And destroy the melancholy
By the sheer power of its might,
And turn fatigue to hopelessness
And further to despair,
That only one who lives through such
Can be fully made aware.
And further to despair,
That only one who lives through such
Can be fully made aware.
But self-pity is our enemy
That we must now dismiss,
And refuse to venture down that road
To infirmities Abyss.
That we must now dismiss,
And refuse to venture down that road
To infirmities Abyss.
So reach for healing energy
that’s created in positive thought,
To heal our ailing cell structure
That make up this mortal cloth.
that’s created in positive thought,
To heal our ailing cell structure
That make up this mortal cloth.
Throw open your battered shutters
And now embrace sunlight,
Abolish the Dark Ages
With optimism overwrite.
And now embrace sunlight,
Abolish the Dark Ages
With optimism overwrite.
Be thankful for good memories
And determine to make them last,
Rehearse all of those good times
Till your weary soul again can laugh.
And determine to make them last,
Rehearse all of those good times
Till your weary soul again can laugh.
Rewrite affliction’s epitaph
Leave no headstone unturned,
Steal the thunder from this grave
Declare this sentence now adjourned.
Leave no headstone unturned,
Steal the thunder from this grave
Declare this sentence now adjourned.
A little lighthearted entertainment for my friends
A BODY OF NONSENSE
I love legs when it comes to my women
not trashy but well dressed and quite primping
but when it comes to my chicken
I'm a breast man I'm thinking
Robust and not the slightest bit slimming.
I struggle to see the eye of a needle
even with the help of the nose of the Tweedle
but when the arm of the law
incarcerates for the long haul
I may sleep in position quite fetal.
My feet run to mischief my friend
pulling pranks that I fully intend
to bring about mirth
while get to unearth
chuckles, giggles, and guffaws in the end.
I have always found necking quite nice
but leads to fourplay and then throwing rice
so if you're gonna play ball
and you swing for the wall
and you want to stay single, think twice.
If you're industrious and feel that you're led
to advancement that gets you ahead
don't drag your behind
through your jobs daily grind
or you'll be sacked and sent back to bed.
Though music may give you an earful
you should be selective and fearful
because though some may make you dance
and thrill at the beat of the bands
other lyrics may make you quite tearful.
Who thought to make foods they call finger
to nibble on while sipping a stinger
when I go out to eat
give me a strait-up to drink
and bring me a full four course dinner.
Salesmen, you may get your toe in my door
But beware and please do not ignore
When I tell you to leave
You had then better flee
Or I’ll introduce you my 12 gauge smoothbore.
I do not have a nose for the news
And avoid it as much as I choose
For it’s stressful at best
And I easily confess
Negativity just gives me the blues.
I’ve said a mouthful right here I admit
Nothing worth reading or worth being writ
But since I’ve answered the call
For nonsense this is all
That I’ll inflict on you so I’ll just quit!
Incapsulating Time
By Whiskers
06-10-2012
By Whiskers
06-10-2012
The Bible’s a mystery to those never read
Like ancient lost languages whose meanings are dead,
Buried, not understood by the living today
Or the history of what those lost writings convey.
Like ancient lost languages whose meanings are dead,
Buried, not understood by the living today
Or the history of what those lost writings convey.
But the Bible’s not dead like some ancient text
But alive like the God that created and Blessed,
Each line and each word, to the last dot and tittle
And whose Word points the way for our soul’s acquittal.
But alive like the God that created and Blessed,
Each line and each word, to the last dot and tittle
And whose Word points the way for our soul’s acquittal.
You see, it’s dictated by the one who was there at the start
Who created for man it’s truth’s to impart,
To teach us of Love beyond human reason
And to guide us throughout all our life seasons.
Who created for man it’s truth’s to impart,
To teach us of Love beyond human reason
And to guide us throughout all our life seasons.
From conception to birth, childhood, adolescent
Young adult, marriage, and even as parent,
To study, then teach, to train new generations
To Godly influence and strengthen our nations.
Young adult, marriage, and even as parent,
To study, then teach, to train new generations
To Godly influence and strengthen our nations.
Then to take us on down through our later years
When our eyes start to dim and our pain causes tears,
To encourage and cheer us of what lie’s ahead
That we inherit once this earthen vessel is shed.
When our eyes start to dim and our pain causes tears,
To encourage and cheer us of what lie’s ahead
That we inherit once this earthen vessel is shed.
Through the history of mankind, it’s triumphs and failures
The reason we sin, and our God given measures,
Provided to us at Gods greatest cost
As the life of His own Son, had to be lost.
The reason we sin, and our God given measures,
Provided to us at Gods greatest cost
As the life of His own Son, had to be lost.
For through His Sacred blood shed on that cross on the hill
God’s redemptive promise to man was fulfilled,
And as He rose with great power from His death in that tomb
He ascended to heaven again as one God triune.
God’s redemptive promise to man was fulfilled,
And as He rose with great power from His death in that tomb
He ascended to heaven again as one God triune.
And waits for our prayerful call for Salvation
Trusting in Jesus shed blood for our dear soul’s conversion,
To be one with our God as His Will had intended
Till sin entered in and our spirits descended.
Trusting in Jesus shed blood for our dear soul’s conversion,
To be one with our God as His Will had intended
Till sin entered in and our spirits descended.
So you see to solve all of the mysteries of life
You’re provided a source that’s Divine and quite rife,
With the answers to all of life’s questions you ponder
Of what here and now, and what lies out yonder.
You’re provided a source that’s Divine and quite rife,
With the answers to all of life’s questions you ponder
Of what here and now, and what lies out yonder.
Our Expectations Can Cause us Pain~
ReplyDeleteWe all have expectations on how it should turn out, or how he or she should be or feel. We've been conditioned to have different value systems and when others get outside of our value system, we become critical. In some cases we become angry oe disappointed in them.
The first thing that is important to learn is to learn what a colleague once said to me. He said, What I say about you says nothing about you; it only says something about me."
Another colleague once said that a friend once misled him. His friend told him that a certain movie was excellent one to see and that he should go see it. He did. He came back very disappointed and and misled. What he later learned was that his friend might not have misled him at all because there was a possibly that he thought it was an excellent movie. You see, what someone else thinks is good might not be good to you.
That's what makes the world go around, we are all different in our own ways and when we realize this, we become less critical of others.
Here we are back to that thought again~ What I say about you says nothing about you - it only says it about me.