I once saw a TV movie, probably a BBC production, probably a movie version of a classic novel, a period costume drama set in England in the 1800's. It had several protagonists we were supposed to care about, and lots of soap opera. One protagonist was a man around 30 years of age, a minor relative of a wealthy family who had never been successful himself. Due to a tragedy, the major members of this family had died, and the whole estate was going to be divided among the more distant…
ContinueAdded by John B Hodges on March 7, 2013 at 11:47pm — 4 Comments
hey, cowboy, let me see your face
the scar where pain still lingers from
a broken-necked beer bottle brawl
the teeth gone bad and yellowed like old paper
from the chew you cannot swallow
the whiskers like a patch of stiff,…
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Hi, I'm Phil Jarrett, the author and copyright holder of the sequence of poems posted on my blog today.
Someone got me thinking about growing up in poverty in West Virginia so I published the toys you never won growing up in Chespeake, West Virginia on the Kanawha River in the 'Fifties. and that one led to a poem after the Sego Mine Murders The Ghost of These Dark Hills. After came the one about my spiritual journey from the hard work and drudgerly…
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