WAS THAT THE WIND????
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Howling outside, amid Spring-time sun,
Sounds like a winter windy blast
Whipping ’round the building with Spring-time here at last,
Strikes an awful note that it’s not done!
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Hearing this howl is like a sudden warning
New England weather changes frequently…
Our second spring cold snap to cover up the flowers,
Warmer weather’s due eventually!!!!
–Jonathan Caswell
NO DIFFERENT “DOWN EAST”
We’d like to visit Maine,
But now it’s much the same…
Melting snow piles
And weary smiles
Waiting for springtime plain.
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Like us they’re tired
Alternately wired…
By long hours
Fighting snow showers
Paying the extra plows hired.
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Nearly out of salt
To keep up the lively assault…
Snow-covered roads,
Icy ones goad
Town employees to help out.
–Jonathan Caswell
A NEW SERIES!
A bucket list author assured
Himself that his work endured…
Did awful in sales
But he prevails
By putting pieces out as lures!
–Jonathan Caswell
I had me a book manuscript nearly ( ? ) completed…and suddenly decided not to publish, at least not at that publisher, as nice as the new staff . Maybe I will send it to them but not just now.
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ON THE RECEIVING END,
by Jonathan Caswell
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SO…on this blog, BY THE MIGHTY MUMFORD and my other blog, THE MARVELOUS MUMFORD–and maybe some teasers at OUR POETRY CORNER–I’ll be posting poetry from the alleged book until I figure out where and how to formally publish it–if at all. 🙂
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THE BOOK…is about my recent experience over the last six months or so, damaging, ignoring, losing two toes on my right foot by amputation, rehab. and recovery. The basic premise–with other observations added–is to look at how difficult doctors, caretakers and such like me ( ! ) make such terrible patients, when it’s our turn to be cared for!
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Other bloggers use some titles repeatedly as categories. Each of mine here are what I plan to use in the book, which is, as you know, semi-autobiographical. These subtitles will be (in this series):
READY…AIM…FIRE!
(Who makes poor patients and maybe why?)
THE HEALERS
(Nurses, therapist, aides from hospital, rehabilitation and home care I’ve known)
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REHAB RUMINATIONS
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
(Various related issues of interest)
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THE END OF THE MATTER?
BLESSED AND ADORED…by Carl Gooch
Winter’s chill has come and past,
Memories linger of its frigid blast…
Strong winds howled with bitter groans
That left sore muscles and aching bones.
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In my struggles He helps me grow,
That every part of me will know…
Whether in harsh days or in fair
I call on my Lord and He is there!
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A gentle breeze flows on a warm day,
Soft cottony clouds float past my way…
I am truly blessed and adored
As I rest in the arms of my Lord.
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He is there in every season,
Grants me life and gives it reason…
Christ is the source of strength and love:
He is my Savior, the Way to heaven above!
–Carl A. Gooch~ 03 February 2015
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